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[1]) 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.
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