LEXINGTON, Ky. – A day after three Grade 1 winners pushed its opening session to large gains, the Keeneland January all-ages sale started its second day with a bang Tuesday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Three Grade 1 winners enlivened a gray day Monday as Keeneland’s January auction kicked off in Lexington, but even as the session enjoyed substantial gains in gross and average, some sellers faced a chilly market as buyers carefully cherry-picked from the session’s 363-horse catalog.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Wickedly Perfect, winner of the 2010 Alcibiades at Keeneland, brought a session-leading $800,000 bid from Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm Monday afternoon at Keeneland's January yearling sale.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Negligee, the first of three Grade 1 winners set to sell Monday at Keeneland’s January sale, went for $625,000 to an unidentified buyer represented by agents Adrian Regan and Fergus Galvin of Hunter Valley Farm.

Hill 'n' Dale Sales agency sold the filly, Canada’s champion juvenile filly in 2009.

The 4-year-old Northern Afleet filly sold as a broodmare prospect and is "definitely retired," Galvin said.

Pope McLean’s Crestwood Farm in Lexington, Ky.,will host an open house from noon until 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Visitors can register to win 2011 seasons to the stallion roster’s newest addition, first-year stallion and multiple Grade 2 winner Tizdejavu, and to Crestwood stallions Unbridled Energy, Visionaire, Taste of Paradise, Noble Causeway, and Kipling.

For more information, call (859) 252-3770.
 

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The late Edward P. Evans’s Jim Dandy winner A Little Warm has been withdrawn from Keeneland’s upcoming January all-ages sale as he continues his recovery from ankle surgery.

The 4-year-old Stormin Fever colt was cataloged as Hip No. 1469 in the Lane’s End consignment.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Crystal and Brent Fernung’s Journeyman Stud will host an open house on Jan. 22 at their Ocala, Fla., farm.

Journeyman Stud stands 14 stallions, including leading second-crop sire Wildcat Heir and new stallions Awesome of Course and Kiss the Kid. Awesome of Course is the sire of 2010‘s putative champion juvenile filly, Awesome Feather, and Kiss the Kid is a Grade 3 winner by Lemon Drop Kid.

LEXINGTON, Ky. − The Keeneland January all-ages auction, which will run from Jan. 10-14, takes place while Thoroughbred breeders and sellers are nursing a fragile hope that the commercial Thoroughbred market might claw its way back to health.

ADENA SPRINGS

Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs breeding and racing program has dominated the breeders Eclipse Award voting in the last decade, winning a record seven consecutive times from 2004 to 2009. Each year, Adena Springs was also the season’s leading breeder by purse earnings. In addition, Stronach has received the Eclipse Award as leading owner four times, in 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2008.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Vinery named Derek MacKenzie its director of public sales Thursday.

The Canadian has been Vinery’s yearling manager for the last three years. Before coming to Vinery, MacKenzie was a foreman at Windfields Farm’s yearling division in Ontario and also managed Mitsuo Haga’s Green Gates Farm in Lexington. MacKenzie has worked at Vinery since 2008.