The Keeneland September yearling sale began its run into its homestretch on Thursday with a solid Book 5 opener, with average prices remaining fairly even from the comparable portion of the sale in 2015.
Book 4 of the Keeneland September yearling sale successfully carried the auction’s upward momentum into its second half with two days of improved trade.
The catalog for the 2016 Equine Sales Co. of Louisiana open yearling and mixed sale is now available online, with 193 horses on offer.
The Keeneland September yearling sale is the latest location where Sheikh Mohammed Al-Maktoum’s Godolphin operation is working to cut back some of its massive worldwide bloodstock holdings.
Dr. Gary Knapp’s Monticule, the owner and breeder of champion Big Brown’s yearling half-brother by Temple City, will keep the colt to race after he finished under his reserve with a final bid of $200,000 on Monday at the Keeneland September yearling sale.
The middle market continued to flex its muscles heading into Book 4 of the Keeneland September yearling sale, with another session of increased average and median sale prices, highlighted by a pair of $300,000 colts.
While forecasts for the middle market were mixed at best heading into the Keeneland September yearling sale, the auction’s Book 3 saw solid improvement across the measurables.
A Curlin colt sold for $350,000 to Katsumi Yoshida during Book 1 earned a unique distinction as the most expensive Louisiana-bred yearling ever.
In a business often built on generations-old relationships, it can be hard to be the new guy on the sale grounds. That notion has not swayed Zach Madden, 29, who consigned his first draft of offerings in a Keeneland September yearling sale on Monday under the shingle of Buckland Sales, a venture run in partnership with Millennium Farms.
A Curlin colt sold for $1 million last Friday to lead Keeneland September's Book 2 portion, with the book's second most expensive offering being a $750,000 Uncle Mo colt sold the following day. If some names on the catalog pages looked familiar, it's for good reason: The two colts share a family tree.
