Two Grade 3-winning broodmares sold for prices in excess of $300,000 to pace the action during the first three hours of Friday's fourth session of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
Four Gifts, consigned by Indian Creek, agent, led the way early, with Barry and Judith Becker going to $340,000 to acquire the mare. Just behind was Mighty Caroline, purchased by Adena Springs Farm from the consignment of Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency for $330,000.
The last horse through the ring during Thursday’s third session of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale made sure the day closed on a high note, when Eyeofthehurricane sold to Ben Glass, bloodstock agent for owners Gary and Mary West, for $475,000.
Glass said he had an inside advantage on what the 8-year-old Storm Cat mare could produce, because the Wests own Eyeofthehurricane’s second foal, a yearling by Bernardini. The mare, who is in foal to Smart Strike, will join the Wests’s broodmare band at Dell Ridge Farm in Lexington, Ky.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland's November breeding stock sale ended its third session Thursday with declines despite some strong prices from a mix of domestic and international buyers vying for the session's best picks among mares and weanlings.
England-based Blandford Bloodstock picked up the $540,000 session-topper, the 15-year-old Storm Cat mare Tell It, a half-sister to Claiborne Farm stallion Pulpit. Claiborne, as agent, sold the mare in foal to Candy Ride. Aisling Duignan signed the ticket on behalf of Blandford's Tom Goff.
Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner Tapizar was retired Thursday and will enter stud in 2013 at the Beck family's Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky. The 4-year-old Tapit colt will stand for $15,000 live foal.
A Ron Winchell homebred trained by Steve Asmussen, Tapizar won 6 of 14 starts and earned $972,632. In addition to the BC Dirt Mile, he captured the Grade 2 San Fernando Stakes and the West Virginia Governors' Stakes this year and the Grade 3 Sham Stakes in 2011.
Teuflesberg, sire of recent Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Trinniberg, has been purchased by Joe McMahon of McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds and will stand at the Saratoga Springs, N.Y., farm for the 2013 breeding season. He is being re-syndicated and his stud fee will be announced later. An 8-year-old son of Johannesburg, Teuflesberg stood at Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla., this year for a fee of $3,500.
Tell It, a half-sister to successful sire Pulpit, set the new high-price mark during Thursday’s third session of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, selling to Blandford Bloodstock for $540,000.
A 15-year-old Storm Cat mare and a stakes-placed winner, Tell It is the dam of five winners from as many to start, including stakes winner Dream Nettie. She sold in foal to Candy Ride.
Fasig Tipton has cataloged 242 horses for its Midlantic mixed sale, to be held on Monday, Dec. 3, in Timonium, Md., beginning at 11 a.m.
The auction will feature 82 in-foal mares and 20 broodmare prospects as well as 92 weanlings, with the remainder comprised of yearlings and horses of racing age/broodmare prospects. Catalogs are available online at Fasig-Tipton’s website and in printed form at all Fasig-Tipton offices.
Spring Party became the first horse to surpass the half-million dollar mark on Day 3 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, selling to Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings for $525,000.
The 6-year-old Smart Strike mare is out of the winning Ocean Crest mare Surf Club, who is the producer of five winners from seven to start, including Grade 1 winner Emcee, Grade 3-placed winner Baffled, and stakes-placed Surfer. Spring Party’s notable family members include Grade 1 winner Awesome Humor.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – After $4 million mares sparked its first two sessions, Keeneland’s November breeding stock auction here returned to more workaday trade as domestic commercial breeders and weanling-to-yearling resellers filled the buyers’ list.
At 3:30 p.m., the high price was the $525,000 that Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Stables paid for the Smart Strike mare Spring Party, in foal to Unbridled’s Song. Taylor Made Sales, agent, sold the 6-year-old, a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Emcee and carrying a three-quarter-sister to that runner.
