Fasig-Tipton has already hosted three yearling sales to start the season, including its marquee Saratoga selected sale. The bellwether Keeneland September yearling sale has cataloged 4,692 yearlings – more than 28 percent of this foal crop, according to estimates from The Jockey Club. However, the season will by no means be over when the hammer falls on Sept. 20 at Keeneland.
The 12-session Keeneland September yearling sale kicks off with two intensely focused days. The Book 1 portion of the auction consists of those yearlings the sales company's inspections teams have judged to be the finest, based on their pedigrees and physical conformation. While a seven-figure bidding war could easily erupt on any of the yearlings in this book, here are a few to watch based on their pedigrees, compelling storylines and page updates, or the commercial histories of their families.
Although the seven-figure horses emerging in Books 1 and 2 during the first days of the Keeneland September yearling sale will garner the majority of headlines, stellar racehorses can, and do, come out of the second week of the auction. In keeping with that history, Keeneland has rebranded the book groupings for the final days of this year's September sale.
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Arthur Boyd Hancock III was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame last month as a Pillar of the Turf, honoring those who have made extraordinary contributions to the Thoroughbred industry. He called the event a “profound and humbling experience.” But even as Hancock stood before a full house at his induction ceremony in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the day-to-day work didn't stop back at his Stone Farm in Paris, Ky.
Biederman Real Estate and Auctioneers is honored to announce a special auction of personal items and professional equipment belonging to the late D. Wayne Lukas, one of the most accomplished trainers in the history of Thoroughbred racing.
Eleven Thoroughbred yearlings have been secured by new owners after their original buyer at Tuesday’s Texas Thoroughbred Association yearling sale, David O’Dwyer, had listed them on his family-owned-and-operated Bowie Livestock Sale Barn webpage with a “slaughter date.”
A Louisiana-bred colt by Aurelius Maximus brought $95,000 on Tuesday to top the Texas summer yearling sale at Lone Star Park.
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Led by an 8-year-old mare sold for $200,000, a digital reduction sale of racing and breeding stock owned by Harris Farms ended on Tuesday with 75 horses selling for $1,045,000, according to auction host Fasig-Tipton.
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Robert Norman hit the jackpot at the Texas summer yearling sale in 2023, when he came away with both Coal Battle and Secret Faith. The auction will be renewed Tuesday at Lone Star Park, and Norman said Lonnie Briley, who trains Coal Battle, and Jayde Gelner, who trains Secret Faith, will both be on the lookout for yearlings for his operation.
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Leonard and Jon Green’s D.J. Stable will offer a curated selection from its bloodstock holdings at this fall’s Keeneland November breeding stock sale, which begins Nov. 4.
