Musical Romance, Plum Pretty to go through auction rings
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.
Glenye Cain OakfordSep 18, 2012
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.
Thoroughbred breeding activity declined in 2011, continuing a recent trend that has led to smaller foal crops, according to statistics The Jockey Club released Friday.
Japanese-based breeder Nagako Fujita gave the 2012 Keeneland September yearling sale its seventh millionaire – and consignor Peter O’Callaghan his first –Thursday when her Empire Maker colt out of Lu Ravi sold to Japan’s Big Red Farm, home of I’ll Have Another, for $1.1 million.