The Keeneland January horses of all ages sale might be slightly smaller than last year, but there is still serious quality on offer. Keeneland has cataloged 1,097 horses for the two-day mixed sale on Monday and Tuesday, including supplemental entries as of Friday morning. Last year, 1,322 hips were ultimately cataloged for a three-day sale. A white-hot weanling marketplace – which followed a yearling sale season with gains – helped fuel November’s high-end mixed sales, with the Keeneland November sale led by a $2.2 million Gun Runner colt who was among the top 10 weanling prices all-time at that auction. Foals from the same crop – known as “short yearlings,” as they’ve only just passed a turn of the calendar – are likely to remain in demand at Keeneland January. Sires represented with offerings include Into Mischief, Not This Time, and Gun Runner, who finished as the leading sires of 2025. The older horses on offer as breeding or racing stock also are a fine lineup, with a pair of proven Grade 1 producers figuring to attract headlines. Stakes-placed Tiffany Case, the dam of Eclipse Award finalist Nitrogen, will be sold in foal to Not This Time, giving her added commercial impact. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Tiffany Case, a 13-year-old daughter of emerging broodmare sire Uncle Mo, is represented by just two starters, but both are stakes performers. Her first runner was Love to Shop, a Grade 2-placed stakes winner who sold for $700,000 at the 2025 Keeneland January sale – one of three horses to tie for that price atop the leaderboard. Tiffany Case later produced Nitrogen, a graded stakes winner on both dirt and turf who took the Grade 1 Alabama this summer and was second in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Also on offer is stakes winner In a Jif, a 16-year-old Saintly Look mare whose three winners are led by crack turf sprinter Cogburn, record-setting winner of the Grade 1 Jaipur in 2024. The mare is offered in foal to 2025 leading freshman sire Yaupon. Her newly turned yearling by Into Mischief will also be sold. Simply in Front will be offered as a broodmare prospect. She won the Grade 1 First Lady at last fall’s Keeneland’s meet and earned more than $2.8 million during her career. Keeneland November also showed that the market remains strong for race-ready horses, as the November horses of racing age sale was led by Bishops Bay, who fetched a sale-record $1.3 million. Racing or stallion prospects offered at the January auction include Mansetti, winner of the 2025 King’s Plate at Woodbine. The slight narrowing of the January sale, from three sessions to two, may be part of a larger trend, as breeding stock and racehorse sales have been the market segments most strongly affected by the rise of digital sales over the past five years. Sales professionals generally agree that yearling and weanling marketplaces will largely remain brick-and-mortar enterprises, as a physical inspection of young, untrained horses is a key component. Racehorses or broodmares have their own quantifiable track or produce records, which can be examined on paper and may outweigh the individuals’ looks Fasig-Tipton has become a leader in the digital space, and hosts both regular digital sales as well as “flash” sales. In December, it offered 690 hips at a year-ending digital sale, topped by the $470,000 colt Treadstone. The company’s February mixed sale was a single session in 2025, after being two sessions in 2024. Fasig-Tipton announced Friday that 350 hips have been cataloged, prior to supplements, for the Feb. 9 sale; the 2025 sale ultimately offered 414 hips. In addition to Keeneland January running two sessions, compared to three last year, the November sale ran eight sessions, compared to nine the prior year. The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. will again host a single-session winter mixed sale on Jan. 27, with 282 initially cataloged compared to 342, after supplements, last year. The auction dropped to one day last year, after running two days in 2024. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.