LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Grade 1 winner Concrete Rose sold for $1.95 million and top-level producer Indian Miss sold for $1.9 million as a broad buying bench was in action to open the Keeneland November breeding stock sale on Monday. The sale began with declines in average and median figures, but posted a steady buyback rate, a positive indicator in what has been a highly polarized Thoroughbred marketplace in 2020. "We had a solid day of trade," Keeneland's president-elect and interim director of sales Shannon Bishop Arvin said. "We were really happy with the participation -- broad domestic participation, international participation, we had a lot of Japanese participation today.... Overall, we were really happy with how the day went." Keeneland reported 128 horses sold in Monday's single-session Book 1 portion of the November sale, which comprises 10 sessions overall. Gross receipts for the session were $49,775,000. Last year's single-session Book 1 opened a 12-day sale with 154 horses sold for $68,147,000. The average price for the day was $388,867, dropping 12 percent compared to $442,513 in 2019. The median checked in at $280,000, dropping 13 percent from $322,500. Book 1's buyback rate was 28 percent, finishing even with the 2019 figure.  Concrete Rose and Indian Miss were both purchased by Larry Best's OXO Equine. In recent years, Best has been bullish in the market to build up his broodmare band along with his racing stock, and came out strong on Monday for mares to support his young stallion Instagrand, who will enter stud at Taylor Made Farm in 2021. Session topper Concrete Rose, by Twirling Candy, won the first two starts of her career, including the Grade 2 Jessamine Stakes, before finishing eighth in the 2018 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies on yielding turf. She went on to win all four starts in her 3-year-old campaign in 2019, taking, in order, the Grade 3 Florida Oaks, Grade 3 Edgewood Stakes, Grade 1 Belmont Oaks, and finally, the Saratoga Oaks. "She's a beautiful horse, and you can't take away that record from her," Best said. "I'm just thrilled to have her. I have admired Concrete Rose for a long time. I have a multiple Grade 1 winner, Cambier Parc, and Concrete Rose beat her, and I said, 'Wow, what a horse.' " An injury derailed Concrete Rose's season, and she did not make it back to the races this year. She was consigned to Keeneland as a racing or broodmare prospect by Lane's End Farm, as agent for Ashbrook Farm and BBN Racing. The filly is out of the winning Powerscourt mare Solerina, and this is the extended family of classic winner and champion Ferdinand. Indian Miss, an 11-year-old Indian Charlie mare, is the dam of five winners from as many starters, led by her son Mitole, last year's Eclipse Award champion male sprinter. He won four Grade 1 events in that championship campaign, highlighted by the Breeders' Cup Sprint and Metropolitan Handicap, and overall won 10 of 14 career starts. Indian Miss is also the dam of Hot Rod Charlie, who updated the page when he finished second by three-quarters of a length as the longest shot on the board in last Friday's Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Indian Miss, who was consigned by Hill 'n' Dale Sales, as agent, was offered in foal to leading sire Into Mischief, the sire of Instagrand. Best said the mare will be bred to Instagrand in 2021. "That’s my strategy -- try to get Instagrand going, and hopefully we’ll get a nice Into Mischief foal," Best said. "I really want to give Instagrand a shot. Indian Charlie is a beautiful cross with Into Mischief.... I’m betting big on Instagrand; going to give it a shot, anyway.” The next three highest-priced horses on the leaderboard are all young mares likely heading to Japan. The winning Distorted Humor filly Cherokee Maiden was purchased by Emmanuel de Seroux's Narvick International on behalf of Grand Farm, from the consignment of Bedouin Bloodstock, as agent. Cherokee Maiden is out of Eclipse Award champion Folklore, whose family has been extremely active as of late. Folklore's daughter Rhodochrosite is the dam of this year's Japanese Triple Crown winner Contrail, while Folklore's half-sister Delightful Quality is the dam of Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Essential Quality. The family got yet another update on Sunday with a debut victory from the juvenile Savile Row, out of Folklore's daughter Miss Moon. "She's a very nice broodmare prospect for us, and the pedigree's improving so much -- there's more action in the family every day," de Seroux said. "The market's strong. It's difficult to get the good pedigrees.... I thought the quality would sell. Privately, the horses were selling very well the last few months, so there was no reason for the top of the market to dip. I think it's going to be more difficult for the average person, but the top of the market, there are a lot of people who are still ready to play, they are at home, they have plenty of time to study and bid." Grade 1 winners Ollie's Candy and Lady Prancealot both raced at the Breeders' Cup on Saturday at Keeneland. Two days later, both were sold via the Taylor Made Sales Agency consignment to begin their broodmare careers in Japan. Ollie's Candy finished eighth in the Breeders' Cup Distaff on Saturday. The Candy Ride mare sold for $1.65 million, the second-highest price of the day behind Indian Miss, to K I Farm, which bid over the internet. Lady Prancealot, by Sir Prancealot, sold for $1.6 million to Shadai Farm, which had a representative on the grounds to bid. The filly had been a creditable fourth, beaten less than a length, in Saturday's Filly and Mare Turf. Ollie's Candy led what Keeneland officials said were nine horses sold online for revenues of more than $6 million. Keeneland introduced an online bidding platform earlier this year, and integrated it into its live auctions beginning with the September yearling sale. Continued strong activity was expected this month, and it was seen with online action on several of the seven-figure horses traded Monday. "We've heard a couple people say they're more comfortable with buying mares on the internet maybe than yearlings," Arvin said. A pair of colts by Triple Crown winners American Pharoah and Justify, respectively, tied for the most expensive weanlings of the session, at $600,000. A colt from the first crop of Justify sold early in the day to bloodstock agent Donato Lanni, from the consignment of Hunter Valley Farm, as agent. “He’s pretty cool -- he looked just like Justify," Lanni said. "We bought him to race. I wanted to buy a nice Justify. He was an amazing racehorse -- [this colt] looked just like him.” Late in the session, an American Pharoah half-brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Jackie's Warrior was purchased for the same amount by Coolmore's M.V. Magnier from the Beau Lane Bloodstock consignment. The international Coolmore operation stands both American Pharoah and Justify.  With Book 1 concluded, Keeneland November continues with its Book 2 portion on Tuesday and Wednesday. For hip-by-hip results, click here.