Keeneland catalogs 1,610 horses for January sale
A total of 1,610 horses have been cataloged for the 2015 Keeneland January horses of all ages sale, which will be held Jan. 12-15.
DRF Breeding StaffDec 03, 2014
A total of 1,610 horses have been cataloged for the 2015 Keeneland January horses of all ages sale, which will be held Jan. 12-15.
Just The Judge, an Irish classic winner and also a Grade 1 winner in Canada, changed hands on Tuesday for 4.5 million guineas (about $7,460,790 in U.S. funds) at the Tattersalls December breeding stock sale, making her the highest-priced filly in British auction history.
The four-day Tattersalls December foal sale in Newmarket, England, closed Saturday with record gross receipts, a higher median, and an improved buyback rate, fueled by well-bred offspring of sires such as Sea The Stars, Dubawi, and Oasis Dream.
The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society held its Ontario winter mixed sale on Saturday after a one-year hiatus, and the auction at the Woodbine sales pavilion in Toronto posted gains in gross, average, and median compared with the 2012 renewal.
LIVE VIDEO: 2014 Fasig-Tipton December Mixed Sale
The November mixed sales season in Kentucky is best known for the high-priced racing and broodmare prospects that go through the sales ring, but the auctions are also an important time for buyers to form first impressions of weanlings by young stallions.
A filly from the first crop of unbeaten champion Frankel hammered for about $2,258,624 (1.8 million euros) on Thursday at the Goffs November foal sale, setting a new Irish record price for a weanling at public auction.
Grade 2 winner and millionaire Win Willy was purchased by Racho Natoches of Mexico on Friday for $45,000 at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, and he will debut at stud in that country in 2015.
Pinhooker Ricky Leppala, who sold notable horses such as Horse of the Year Favorite Trick, Grade 1 winner Delaware Township, and multiple stakes winner Reneesgotzip, died on Nov. 4 at his home in Ocala, Fla., of cancer. He was 62.
The 2014 edition of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale continued the auction’s upward trend, highlighted by a record-tying median and a weanling whose price established a North American record.