Bidding and prices during the ninth session of Keeneland’s 14-day September yearling sale dampened considerably Tuesday compared to previous sessions as the market began to show signs of weakness after relatively strong results earlier in the sale.
Artax, the champion sprinter of 1999, the year he won the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, has been sold to Brazilian interests.
A gray son of Tapit out of the Ikari mare Victory Road brought $450,000 early in the session to lead the eighth day of selling at the Keeneland September yearling sale on Monday.
A colt by Malibu Moon, the first foal out of the stakes-winning Out of Place mare Meditations, brought $300,000 to lead all horses sold on Sunday during the Keeneland September yearling sale.
Bonnie and Tommy Hamilton of Silverton Hill have been active throughout the Keeneland September yearling sale so far, and they brought home the $560,000 session topper at Friday's sixth session to close out week one of the 14-day auction. The session-topping Unbridled's Song colt is out of the Grade 3-placed stakes winner Sweet Nanette.
A-list buyers were still on the grounds and buying Friday afternoon as the Keeneland September yearling sale neared the end of its first week, and five days of upbeat results appeared to justify Keeneland executives’ decision to reformat the 14-day auction.
A pair of $550,000 Smart Strike yearlings were the peak of the market Thursday at during a lively fifth session at Keeneland's September yearling sale.
Thoroughbred shareholders Ashley Andrews and Robert Raphaelson have provided details of an offer, including details of buyer's representative Jerry Jamgotchian's fee, to purchase a share in Lemon Drop Kid and Kingmambo to the syndicates that stand those stallions at Lane's End in Versailles, Ky.
Domestic buyers continued to dominate the upper market Thursday at the Keeneland September yearling sale’s fifth session, where a $500,000 Smart Strike colt that Ahmed Zayat bought was leading the sale prices by mid-afternoon.
A Woodford County, Ky., Circuit Court judge has granted Lane’s End Stallions a temporary restraining order to prevent Ashley Andrews, a shareholder in classic winner and sire Lemon Drop Kid, and Robert Raphaelson, Andrews’s partner in a share of Kingmambo, from selling those shares to a group represented by California-based owner and breeder Jerry Jamgotchian.
