The select first book of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale extended a run of gains in high-end marketplaces in 2017, posting improved average and median sale prices, led by the $6-million champion Stellar Wind.
Champion Stellar Wind lived up to her billing as the top attraction of this year’s Keeneland November breeding stock sale, attracting $6 million to help drive gains in average and median sale price for Tuesday’s opening session.
Stellar Wind will be bred to Triple Crown winner American Pharoah - who is based at at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Kentucky - for her first foal.
The top of the Thoroughbred auction market has been nothing short of vibrant over the course of 2017, and the ultra-select Fasig-Tipton Kentucky select fall mixed sale lived up to that billing, with a record gross powered by $9.5-million Songbird and $8-million Tepin, as well as a pair of $1-million entries bringing the co-highest weanling price in the auction’s history.
A two-time Eclipse Award champion, Tepin sold for $8 million to the international Coolmore operation Monday night at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale. The operation's representative M.V. Magnier said the Bernstein mare would join Coolmore's broodmare band in Ireland, and would be bred to its international titan Galileo in 2018.
Two-time Eclipse Award champion Songbird sold $9.5 million to Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm Monday night at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale, ranking her among the highest-priced broodmare prospects of all time.
A $1-million filly led the results for American Pharoah Monday night as the young stallion, who is based at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Kentucky, averaged a price of $475,000 from five members of his first crop offered Monday night at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale.
The catalog for the 2017 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Ontario Division) winter mixed sale is now available online, featuring 77 horses on offer.
The DRF Breeding staff presents a special edition with in-depth coverage of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale and the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
While not an overwhelming slice of the mixed-sale economy, the young horse pinhook market has produced some lucrative returns in the sale ring and successful graduates on the racetrack.
