Multiple graded stakes winner Regal Glory, a homebred for the late Paul Pompa Jr., and Danceforthecause, a Grade 1 producer for the legendary Sam-Son Farm, both sold for $925,000 as dispersals took center stage on Tuesday at the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale. Stock from the dispersals of Pompa’s Thoroughbred holdings and Sam-Son’s broodmare band accounted for the top nine lots of the day, including five horses sold for prices of $650,000 or more, all topping the highest-priced horse from the 2020 Keeneland January sale, $640,000 Enaya Alraab. Bolstered by that competition at the top of the market, Keeneland reported 247 horses sold for gross receipts of $23,319,400 during Tuesday's session, the Book 1 finale and the second session of the four-day sale overall. Last year, the comparable second session of a five-day sale grossed $17,414,300 from 238 sold. The 2020 figures include 13 private sales that were factored in after the close of business. The session's average price finished at $94,411, a year-to-year jump of 29 percent from $73,169 in the comparable session last year. The median price was unchanged at $40,000. Tuesday's buyback rate was 22 percent, compared to 26 percent before private transactions in 2020. “These dispersals are bittersweet, but we appreciate the trust they put in Keeneland to put the show on today,” Geoffrey Russell, Keeneland’s director of sales operations, said. “The opportunity, especially with the Sam-Son dispersal, to get into these mares has been limited over the years. People are hungry to get into these strong female families. The same is true for the mares owned by Mr. Pompa. Breeders are looking for blue skies ahead, and they have to have the product to produce yearlings to sell.” Regal Glory set the table for the strength of the session early. The third horse through the ring, the Animal Kingdom mare sold as a racing or broodmare prospect to Peter Brant's White Birch Farm, via telephone bid. Regal Glory has been a stakes performer in all three seasons of her racing career to date. After winning the Stewart Manor Stakes as a juvenile, she added the Grade 2 Lake Placid, Grade 3 Lake George, and the Penn Oaks in 2019, and also placed in two other graded stakes that season. Last September, she added the Grade 3 Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf to her resume. Regal Glory is a half-sister to multiple graded/group stakes winners Cafe Pharoah and Night Prowler. Their dam, the Grade 2-winning More Than Ready mare Mary's Follies, was also offered on Tuesday, selling for $500,000 to BBA Ireland. In all, 20 horses offered on Tuesday from the estate of Pompa, who died last October at age 62, accounted for $4,037,000 of the gross, an average of $201,850. Lane's End Farm is handling the consignment, which has 19 more horses on offer this week, as agent. Sam-Son Farm, responsible for multiple Eclipse Award and Sovereign Award champions since its founding in 1972, announced last October that it would wind down its operations and disperse its holdings. The 21 broodmares in foal offered at Keeneland January on Tuesday garnered $6,733,000, averaging $320,619, to finish as the day’s leading consignment. Leading the way to tie for the top price of the session was Danceforthecause, sold to Gainesway Farm. The 10-year-old Giant's Causeway mare is in foal to Twirling Candy. The unraced Danceforthecause, a full sister to stakes winner Grand Style, is from one of Sam-Son's most storied families. Her second dam is Canadian Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup Distaff winner Dance Smartly, a Hall of Famer in both the U.S. and Canada. The mare went on to a stellar career as a broodmare, producing Queen’s Plate winners Dancethruthedawn and Scatter the Gold. Danceforthecause has ably added to the family's success in her own right. Her first foal, the More Than Ready gelding Say the Word, won last fall's Grade 1 Northern Dancer Stakes. An invitee to the Pegasus World Cup Turf, he has placed in four other stakes, including a runner-up effort in the Breeders' Stakes, a leg of the Canadian Triple Crown. Danceforthecause's second foal is Grade 2 winner Rideforthecause, by Candy Ride, making her bred on the same cross as the foal the mare sold carrying. “She is a really beautiful mare and has been such a good producer already,” said Alex Solis II, Gainesway's director of bloodstock and racing, who signed the ticket. “I feel this is the best Sam-Son family there is, with Dance Smartly as the second dam and Smart Strike right there on the page.” The Sam-Son dispersal also accounted for the third- and fourth-highest priced horses of the session behind Regal Glory and Danceforthecause. Graded stakes winner Deceptive Vision, a full sister to champion and classic winner Eye of the Leopard, sold for $900,000 to Hill 'n' Dale; and graded stakes winner Southern Ring, who is out of Canadian filly classic winner Seeking the Ring, for $875,000 to Phil Schoenthal, as agent for Determined Stud. In addition to handling the Pompa dispersal as agent, Lane's End had a bright spot of its own on Tuesday. The Farish family's operation consigned the session's highest-priced yearling, a $400,000 filly from the first crop of Lane’s End stallion City of Light. She was purchased by Larry Best's OXO Equine. The filly, foaled in March 2020, is out of the Bernardini mare I'll Show Me, a half-sister to Kentucky Oaks winner and Eclipse Award champion Proud Spell. For hip-by-hip results from Keeneland January, click here.