The highest-priced horses of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale will most likely emerge from the Book 1 opening session on Nov. 10. But some of the highest intrigue will come during the final horses of racing age session on Nov. 19.
The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale is set to begin at 2 p.m. on Nov. 9 at the company's Newtown Paddocks headquarters in Lexington. The sun is projected to set at 5:30 p.m. And then, the stars will come out.
Following are horses to watch during the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale, to be held the evening of Nov. 9 in Lexington.
Thirty years ago, Dance Smartly, one of the greatest runners produced by the legendary Sam-Son Farm, became the first Canadian-bred runner to win a Breeders' Cup race when she wrapped up an Eclipse Award in the 1991 Distaff. Now, just days before the 2021 Breeders' Cup, the families cultivated by Sam-Son are still prominent, with a descendant of Dance Smartly helping the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale to a record renewal.
The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale brought the curtain down on the North American yearling sale season with style, posting record figures across the board as it concluded Thursday evening.
Led by a $925,000 Street Sense colt who tied an all-time record, the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale's penultimate session on Wednesday pushed the yearling season finale closer to finishing out the calendar with a bang.
An Empire Maker colt sold for the significant price sum of $750,000 as the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale, the finale for the yearling sale season calendar, hit its midway point with continued gains.
A Tapit colt who was among the first 20 horses through the ring kicked off the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale with fireworks, selling for $700,000. By the end of the evening, Monday’s opening session of the yearling sales season finale had concluded with a bang, finishing with across-the-board gains.
The 2021 North American yearling sales season was widely expected to rebound from the coronavirus-hampered figures of 2020. However, almost no one could have predicted how strongly the marketplace has rebounded this season.
A filly from the first crop of Catalina Cruiser sold for $195,000, a sale record for a weanling, as the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale returned to its place on the calendar Monday.
