A half-dozen six-figure yearlings led selling Wednesday at the Keeneland September auction, where the sale continued strong momentum heading for its Sept. 24 ending. The session-topper was an Adena Springs purchase, a $140,000 Big Brown colt who is a half-brother to Grade 2 winner Recapturetheglory.
A trio of six-figure yearlings led selling Wednesday as the Keeneland September auction attempted to continue its eight-day run of increases.
The Keeneland September yearling sale remained strong on Wednesday, its ninth session, posting solid gains when compared to a similar session last year and pushing the gross receipts well beyond last year’s gross for the entire sale.
With day eight of the 13-day Keeneland September yearling sale in the books as of Monday night, gross proceeds from the startlingly strong sale had already surpassed the gross from last year’s 14-day yearling auction.
Fasig-Tipton Sales Co. has moved the date of its annual 2-year-old in-training sale so that it will be the third major juvenile auction of the year rather than the first, according to an announcement by the company. The sale in 2012 will be held March 26, a Monday, at Palm Meadows Training Center near Boynton Beach, Fla.
A filly by Sky Mesa out of the Forest Wildcat mare Floral Park brought a price of $230,000 to top the Monday session of the Keeneland September yearling sale.
Two colts had sold for $220,000 each to share the lead for the highest-priced horses to sell halfway through the Monday session of the marathon Keeneland September yearling sale.
Keeneland’s September yearling auction kept the financial gains rolling Sunday as the seventh of 13 sessions rang up more across-the-board increases. The session-topping Quiet American colt sold late in the session and brought a $430,000 final bid from trainer D. Wayne Lukas, representing Bluegrass Hall owner Brad Kelley.
Aided by four yearlings that sold for $300,000 or more, Keeneland’s September yearling sale in Lexington maintained some of its earlier momentum Saturday as Book 3 kicked off. The sixth of 13 sessions posted more gains as compared to the first session for Book 3 last year.
The auction’s sixth of 13 sessions had a $400,000 session-leader at of 3 p.m. Saturday. Mike Pegram bought that filly, a daughter of first-crop sire War Pass and unraced stakes producer Avenging Tomisue, by Belong to Me.
