Grade 1 winner General Quarters, who was sold to bloodstock agent Omer Aydin for $50,000 on Friday at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, will continue his stallion career in Turkey.
The single-day Book 6 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale finished on Friday with an increased gross, but mild declines in average and median, topped by the $125,000 broodmare Courageisamajority.
Book 5 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale closed on Thursday with significant declines across the board, headed up by the $120,000 racing prospect Pizmo Time.
Following a two-day crush of high prices surrounding the Conquest Stables dispersal not often seen in the second week of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, Wednesday’s session resumed normal trade, led by the $140,000 broodmare Bamboozle.
Trainer Mark Casse reclined in a Keeneland sales pavilion seat having just completed a two-week stretch that included a title-clinching Breeders' Cup Juvenile score by Classic Empire, a gut-wrenching runner-up effort by Tepin in the Mile, cross-country travel, and finally a large chunk of his barn population being pieced apart in the dispersal of Conquest Stables at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
The second half of the Conquest Stables dispersal’s racing-age portion helped propel gains for a second day to close out Book 4 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale Tuesday, topped by the $785,000 Conquest Enforcer.
Interest in the dispersal of Conquest Stables brought faces into the pavilion not often seen in Book 4 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, but it was a horse outside of the headlining draft who made history on Monday.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Constitution, who stood his first season this year at WinStar Farm, recorded a major coup with a seven-figure mare in his first auction as a covering sire.
With the weanling market expected to be strong at this sale, perennial commercial leaders War Front and Tapit were each represented by a seven-figure weanling last week.
The pattern of gains in a book’s opening session and declines during its second day continued into Book 3 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, with decreased returns during Sunday’s trade.
