LEXINGTON, Ky. – A $2.5 million Quality Road colt led group of nine seven-figure horses as the Keeneland September yearling sale, considered the bellwether for the North American marketplace, opened its 12-session run Monday with gains across the board.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Keeneland September yearling sale set the table Monday with nine seven-figure horses, led by a $2.5 million Quality Road colt, in its opening session. With the buying bench thus warmed up, the sale’s Book 1 portion concludes with its second session Tuesday.
Here are some of the horses to watch in that session, largely based on their pages and the market trends seen early. The selections reflect catalog updates and sale outs through Monday.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Lane’s End Farm consignment had a magical 48 hours at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale to begin this month, and now looks to keep the momentum going through the rest of this summer and fall’s auctions.
Jane Lyon’s Summer Wind Farm has assembled a top-notch broodmare band, including Littleprincessemma, the dam of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, and that mare’s Grade 1-winning daughter Chasing Yesterday. But the most exciting mare on the Georgetown, Ky., property at the moment may be Feathered. The 10-year-old Indian Charlie mare is the dam of Flightline, who remained unbeaten with a dynamic victory in Saturday’s Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park.
“We are extra excited about his dam,” Summer Wind, which co-owns Flightline, posted on its social media accounts.
Just one-quarter of the way into 2022, there is plenty of road still to cover in the race for this year’s leading sire title. But at this early stage, the path runs through Quality Road. By virtue of an international performer and several American classic contenders, Quality Road leads his Lane’s End Farm stablemate Tonalist on the overall earnings list.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The 2-year-old filly Princesse Lele sold for $750,000 as the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale began its four-day run with gains on Tuesday.
Keeneland reported 249 horses sold through the ring on Tuesday, the first of two Book 1 sessions, for gross receipts of $18,015,200. The sale was originally scheduled to begin on Monday, but was pushed back one day due to logistical complications caused by a record snowfall last Thursday in Lexington.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Quality Road, his son City of Light, and two-time reigning leading sire Into Mischief were among the leading sires of the Keeneland September yearling sale, which ended Friday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The team behind the historic Dixiana Farms sold its first million-dollar horse last week at the Keeneland September yearling sale – and, to make the experience even more memorable, did so with a yearling out of a sentimentally named mare sold to a longtime connection.
Dixiana’s Quality Road colt out of Brielle’s Appeal sold to Mayberry Farm for $1.15 million during the Book 1 portion of the sale. He is the first foal out of his dam, a Grade 3-placed Dixiana homebred daughter of English Channel.
