The fifth session of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale on Saturday yielded returns similar to last year's fifth session, topped by the $275,000 stakes-winning filly Storm the Hill.
Book 2 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale showed significant growth over the same portion of last year’s auction, led by the $1-million broodmare Fools In Love.
Book 2 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale opened with continued solid trade on Thursday, led by the $1-million broodmare Fools In Love.
It isn't often that a first-crop weanling sire, with only gawky, fuzzy youngsters on his résumé and no progeny accomplishments to speak of, breaks out with a seven-figure sale in this discerning market. But it's not often that a Triple Crown winner comes to stud, prompting even hardened professionals to dare to dream.
A trio of weanlings led their segment of the marketplace during the early sessions of Kentucky’s November auction season, each selling for $1 million.
Fasig-Tipton has released the initial catalog for its Midlantic winter mixed sale, which this year adds a horses of racing age supplement as it moves back to its traditional December date.
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.
