Valerio's got an eye for talent
Smart buys like The Factor have pinhooker Kim Valerio's name emerging on the sales circuit.
Glenye Cain OakfordJan 13, 2011
Smart buys like The Factor have pinhooker Kim Valerio's name emerging on the sales circuit.
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.
Negligee, the first of three Grade 1 winners set to sell Monday at Keeneland’s January sale, went for $625,000 to an unidentified buyer represented by agents Adrian Regan and Fergus Galvin of Hunter Valley Farm.
Pope McLean’s Crestwood Farm in Lexington, Ky.,will host an open house from noon until 5 p.m. on Sunday. Visitors can register to win 2011 seasons to the stallion roster’s newest addition, first-year stallion and multiple Grade 2 winner Tizdejavu, and to Crestwood stallions Unbridled Energy, Visionaire, Taste of Paradise, Noble Causeway, and Kipling.
The late Edward P. Evans’s Jim Dandy winner A Little Warm has been withdrawn from Keeneland’s upcoming January all-ages sale as he continues his recovery from ankle surgery.