Keeneland November sale catalogs 3,958
Keeneland’s November breeding stock auction catalog will comprise 3,958 horses this year, up slightly from last year’s 3,919.
Glenye Cain OakfordSep 26, 2012
Keeneland’s November breeding stock auction catalog will comprise 3,958 horses this year, up slightly from last year’s 3,919.
Clearsky Farms owner and Irish-born businessman Eamon Cleary, who most recently sold one of the Keeneland September yearling auction’s two Sea the Stars yearlings for $675,000, died Friday in Kentucky.
Fasig-Tipton’s October yearling sale, planned for Oct. 22-24 in Lexington, has a record 1,254 yearlings in its catalog, the company announced Monday.
Kitalpha, a full brother to Kingmambo and Miesque’s Son who was a leading sire in Zimbabwe before relocating to Kentucky, has died of cancer at age 13.
Keeneland’s 11-day September yearling sale ended Friday with strong gains in average and median that should give sellers some confidence that the yearling market is on better footing than a year ago.
Wilko, winner of the 2004 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, will relocate from Adena Springs North in Ontario, Canada, to Highfield Stock Farm in Alberta, Canada, for the 2013 breeding season, Adena Springs announced Friday.
Racketeer, a graded-placed earner of more than $400,000, has retired to the Old Friends equine facility in Georgetown, Ky., after his rescue earlier this year from a California feedlot.
A $110,000 Divine Park colt led selling at the Keeneland September yearling auction’s 10th, and penultimate, session Thursday afternoon as average slipped but median jumped from the corresponding Thursday session last year.
The recent Keeneland September yearling sale marked the end of an era for what sales director Geoffrey Russell called “very much Keeneland’s horse” as the last yearlings by A.P. Indy went through the auction ring.
Key figures for the Keeneland September yearling sale remained strong during the bellwether auction’s ninth day of selling on Wednesday, with average gaining 23.1 percent over the comparable day last year and median jumping 33.3 percent.