Keeneland January sale continues slide
The Keeneland January horses of all ages sale posted across-the-board declines for a second straight day on Tuesday. The session was led by the $575,000 broodmare Joyfully.
Joe NevillsJan 10, 2017
The Keeneland January horses of all ages sale posted across-the-board declines for a second straight day on Tuesday. The session was led by the $575,000 broodmare Joyfully.
The opening session of the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale showed that the money was in the building for the right horse, as evidenced by the $1.025-million broodmare Siren Serenade. However, an often-sparse market below that led to overall declines.
With the first significant snowfall of the season last week in Lexington, and temperatures in the single digits on the first full day of showing for horses at the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale, consignors were taking extra precautions in horse care.
The quarantine at Fair Grounds due to several cases of equine herpesvirus has had a ripple effect across the Thoroughbred industry, with Delta Downs rescheduling a pair of stakes that would have been decimated due to a lack of shippers, and Grade 1 winners Gun Runner and I'm a Chatterbox, both stabled at Fair Grounds, unable to travel for early-season engagements. The sales industry has not been left unaffected, with several prominent racing or broodmare prospects who most recently raced or trained at Fair Grounds forced to be scratched from this week's Keeneland January horses of all ages sale, as precautions against the spread of EHV-1 prohibit them from being on the sale grounds.
The 2017 auction year kicks off with the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale, but the trend of division in the mixed marketplace is not one that will change with a simple flip of the calendar page.
The catalog for the 2017 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic winter mixed sale is now available online. The number of horses cataloged increased 37 percent from the previous edition to 229.
The catalog for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. winter mixed sale is now online, featuring 623 horses on offer over two days.
The catalog for the Barretts January mixed sale is now available online, with 181 horses scheduled to be on offer.
The catalog for the 2017 Keeneland January horses of all ages sale is now available online, with 1,892 horses on offer. This year’s catalog includes 726 broodmares, 147 broodmare prospects, 732 yearlings, 280 horses of racing age, and seven stallions and stallion prospects.
The Mid States Race Horse Sale will aim to set a foothold as a one-stop marketplace for horsemen in the Midwest, with its first edition cataloging a combined 83 Thoroughbreds, Quarter Horses, and lead ponies.