Keeneland September: Market closes with steady returns
The 2014 Keeneland September yearling sale wrapped on Sunday with steady returns rivaling last year’s breakout renewal, including a record-tying median.
Joe NevillsSep 21, 2014
The 2014 Keeneland September yearling sale wrapped on Sunday with steady returns rivaling last year’s breakout renewal, including a record-tying median.
The 13-day Keeneland September yearling sale entered its final weekend with the first of two Book 6 sessions on Saturday. That session posted across-the-board declines compared with the 12th session in 2013, which was the last one of the sale.
Keeneland held the solitary Book 5 session of its September yearling auction on Friday, and the session ended with sizable gains in gross, median, and average as measured against the corresponding session last year.
The Breeders Sales Co. of Louisiana has cataloged 197 yearlings to its Tuesday auction, to be held at the Ike Hamilton Center in West Monroe. The sale put on by the Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association will start at 11 a.m. Central.
The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society: British Columbia Division yearling and mixed sale saw a 10-year low in the number of horses sold, but nonetheless posted average figures comparable to last year’s auction.
The tenth session of the Keeneland September yearling sale closed with steady returns on Thursday, continuing the run of consistent trade as the sale moves into its later days.
The New England branch of the Communication Alliance to Network Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses (CANTER) will host a showcase event on the backstretch of Suffolk Downs on Sept. 27 to assist horsemen in re-homing racehorses when the track shutters at the end of the month.
The Keeneland September yearling sale continued to hum along on Wednesday, as the 13-day auction entered the homestretch. Wednesday signaled the beginning of Keeneland’s Book 4 portion, squarely targeting the middle market, and when the ninth session concluded economic figures were up significantly across the board.
Book 3 of the Keeneland September yearling sale continued a strong showing by the middle market, wrapping on Tuesday with sizable improvements in gross, average and median compared with last year’s eighth session.
Economic figures remained solid as the Keeneland September yearling drifted into the middle market on Monday, posting improved returns compared with last year’s seventh session.