A total of 201 horses sold on Monday's opening session of the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages sale for receipts of $15,331,400, up 10 percent compared with last year’s first session total of $13,932,200 from 209 sold.
Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Stud went to $600,000 to buy Grade 1-placed winner Big Tiz on Monday during the opening session of the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.
Potesta and Princess Arabella, both well-regarded fillies whose promising racing careers were cut short by injuries last season, sold for $800,000 and $725,000, respectively, to help pace Monday's opening session of the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.
Grade 1 winner Nereid became the first horse to break the seven-figure threshold during Monday's opening session of the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale, with Lane Seliger of Baumann Stables signing the $1.3 million ticket.
Grade 3-placed winner Maristar became the first horse to break the half-million mark on Monday at the Keeneland January horse of all ages sale, selling to Robert Clay’s Three Chimneys Farm for $500,000.
New York-bred graded stakes winner Gitchee Goomie was the top-priced horse early in the first session of the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale on Monday, dropping the hammer at $250,000 to Adena Springs Farm.
Consignors active on the first day of the 2013 Keeneland January horses of all ages sale discuss seven prominent horses scheduled to go through the sales ring, including Grade 2 winner Potesta and stakes winner Princess Arabella.
Here are a few of the horses to keep an eye on during this year’s Keeneland January sale.
On the heels of a November mixed sale season that saw gains in the open market, the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale will try to carry that momentum into 2013 with the help of the high-profile Fares Farm dispersal.
An added measure of interest was injected into the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale when Issam Fares, best known as the breeder of two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, announced plans to disperse his Thoroughbred breeding and racing stock. His dispersal will feature 80 horses, with Lane’s End acting as agent.
