City of Light has emerged as one of the commercial standouts of his class of sires early on, a run that continued at last week’s Keeneland January horses of all ages sale. City of Light was represented by eight yearlings from his first crop sold at Keeneland January for a total of $1,225,500. He not only led all first-crop yearling sires by gross and average, but, according to Keeneland statistics, was the leading yearling sire overall by gross. City of Light’s offerings were led by a $400,000 filly sold to Larry Best’s OXO Equine, ranking as the second highest-priced yearling of the entire sale. “He is a magnificent physical and one of the most highly recruited horses of his generation for obvious reasons,” bloodstock agent Mike Ryan recently said of City of Light. “It is not a surprise to me that his foals look so good, because I have found through the years that these magnificent-looking stallions like Alydar, Secretariat, and Deputy Minister, they have the gene strength to reproduce themselves. His foals are very well grown, they have size, substance, quality, strength, and an aura of class.” :: DRF BREEDING LIVE: Real-time coverage of breeding and sales City of Light, who stands alongside his sire Quality Road at Lane’s End Farm, won six of 11 career starts and never missed the board while earning $5,662,600. He concluded his career with consecutive victories in the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Churchill Downs and the 2019 Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park. He also won the Grade 1 Malibu and Grade 1 Triple Bend in California, the Grade 2 Oaklawn Handicap, and placed in Grade 1 events at Santa Anita and Saratoga. City of Light’s progeny made their commercial debut at last November’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale. A colt by the young stallion sold for $600,000 to Best to top all weanlings at that auction. The following week, City of Light’s nine yearlings sold at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale averaged $153,000, which placed him second by average among first-crop sires, trailing only Triple Crown winner Justify.