As the Keeneland September Yearling Sale marched ahead through its second book with a pair of sessions on Saturday and Sunday (Hips 763-1585), New York-bred sales remained strong. Seven of ten individuals who sold over the weekend commanded six figures, while the cumulative median price for state-breds through the first six days of the auction is outperforming the cumulative median for the general population of the sale. The Empire-bred topper of Book 2 was a colt by Sidney’s Candy out of a multiple graded stakes winner who was hammered down to Xavier International Bloodstock, Agent, for $240,000 on Saturday.
Selling from the consignment of Peter O’Callaghan’s Woods Edge Farm, the bay Sidney’s Candy colt (Hip 1020) was bred by SF Racing and foaled at Vinery New York at Sugar Maple in Poughquag on May 14, 2013. His dam is Atlantic Ocean, a multiple graded stakes winning Florida bred daughter of Stormy Atlantic who won the Grade 3 Miesque Stakes at two at Hollywood Park and the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes at three at Santa Anita. She enjoyed stakes success on both turf and dirt over three seasons of racing, earning $678,210.
Atlantic Ocean, who was purchased by Gavin Murphy and Neil Bowden’s SF Bloodstock at the 2010 Keeneland November sale for $230,000, has produced two winners from two foals to start including stakes placed Golden Galleon by Medaglia d’Oro. Her only other registered New York-bred offspring, a 2-year-old filly by Super Saver named Save Our Oceans, brought $240,000 at last year’s Keeneland yearling sale and has not yet started. Atlantic Ocean currently has a weanling full brother to the sale colt and was bred this year to Violence.
Thirteen New York-breds in all were offered in Keeneland Book 2, seven selling for six figures, including three who brought more than $200,000. The Book 2 average price for New York-breds was $146,000 and the median was $155,000.
Over the first six days of business (Books 1 and 2) 18 of 24 New York bred yearlings offered have changed hands, for a 25 percent buyback rate, which is slightly better than the 27.1 percent buyback rate of the overall sale.
The cumulative New York-bred average is $155,833, which predictably lags behind the average for the general population of the sale ($202,770, up 4.3 percent from 2013). The cumulative New York-bred median of $155,000, however, is better than the overall sale, which sits at $150,000 (3.5 percent higher than last year’s $145,000).
The sale continues Monday with the first of two session of Book 3 and runs through Sunday, September 21. All sessions begin at 10 a.m.
