LEXINGTON, Ky. – Another Pulpit daughter led selling Friday at the Keeneland January sale’s last session. Poetfromthepulpit, a 3-year-old filly out of stakes-placed Kivi, brought $40,000 from agent Carlos Moore as top-priced horse at 3 p.m.
Unusual Heat extended his streak of annual titles as California’s leading stallion by progeny earnings to three in 2010, but his earnings dipped compared to the past two years.
Through Thursday, Keeneland’s January all-ages sale had sold 849 horses for a combined $24,354,850, a 7 percent increase over last season’s aggregate for 816 horses at the same stage. The four-day average also was up, by 3 percent, to $28,687, and the median price of $10,000 was the same as last year’s figure.
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The Keeneland January horses of all ages sale posted gains Wednesday, even as the ceiling on prices dropped midweek.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Keeneland January horses of all ages sale struggled to produce six-figure horses Wednesday as prices continued to tail off.
Japan’s Shadai Farm, purchaser of Monday’s $1.4 million session-topper Ave, returned to Keeneland’s January all-ages sale Tuesday and picked up another expensive young broodmare prospect. Shadai went to $540,000 for 6-year-old broodmare prospect Secret Gypsy, a multiple graded winner by Sea of Secrets
A day after three Grade 1 winners pushed its opening session to large gains, the Keeneland January all-ages sale started its second day with a bang Tuesday. Brian Graves stretched his budget to pay $300,000 for a chestnut Candy Ride yearling he intends to prepare for resale at a select yearling auction later this year.
Three Grade 1 winners enlivened a gray day Monday as Keeneland’s January auction kicked off in Lexington, Ky., with substantial gains in gross and average. The session-topper was $1.4 million Ave, winner of the Flower Bowl Invitational, who sold to Shadai Farm.
Wickedly Perfect, winner of the 2010 Alcibiades at Keeneland, brought a session-leading $800,000 bid from Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm Monday afternoon at Keeneland's January yearling sale.
