A colt by Yes It’s True out of the winning Saint Ballado mare Wadena was the session-topper as of late afternoon Wednesday at the Keeneland September yearling sale in Lexington, Ky. The colt was bought by James Kasparoff, agent, for $220,000 out of the consignment of Bill Reightler, acting as agent.
A $260,000 Even the Score colt topped Tuesday’s eighth session at the Keeneland September yearling sale on a day that extended the auction’s upward trend for average and median price.
Bill Kaplan and Pinnacle Racing's champion sprint female Musical Romance and Peachtree Stable's 2011 Kentucky Oaks winner Plum Pretty will sell in November.
A $260,000 Even the Score colt led early selling Tuesday at the Keeneland September yearling sale’s eighth session, which at 3:30 p.m. was on pace to post more gains.
Deputed Testamony, the 1983 Preakness winner who had been the oldest living Triple Crown race winner, died Tuesday morning at Bonita Farm in Maryland, the Baltimore Sun reported. He was 32.
Fillies ruled the results list Monday as the Keeneland September yearling sale’s Book 4 portion got underway Monday in Lexington with more gains across the board.
Fillies held the top spots by price on the results sheet during the early selling of the first session of Book 4 at the Keeneland September yearling sale, including a $280,000 Unbridled’s Song filly, the first foal out of Grade 2 winner Tizfiz and a member of 1997 Horse of the Year Favorite Trick’s family.
Keeneland’s September yearling sale continued its pattern of gains Sunday when the sixth of 11 sessions posted increases across the board.
Topped by a $430,000 Empire Maker colt, Saturday’s fifth session at the Keeneland September yearling sale posted large across-the-board increases over last year’s Saturday session.
The Keeneland September yearling sale, which has a 20 percent smaller catalog and cut back its select sessions from two to one this year, ended its first week Thursday with more million-dollar yearlings, a higher average, and a median equal to last year’s.
