The top-selling New York-bred to change hands during Book 4 of the Keeneland September yearling sale, which occupied the ninth and tenth sessions of the auction (Hips 2383-3180), was a full brother to NYSS winner Loki’s Vengeance by Frost Giant (Keane Stud), who was purchased in session nine by Jeffrey Bloom from the Brandywine Farm consignment for $100,000.
Bred by Andrew Cohen’s Sunrise Stables and foaled on March 24, 2013, Hip 2546 is out of Subtle Sweetness, a multiple winner by During bred in New York by Thomas-Narlinger, LLC and Dennis Repp. Subtle Sweetness’ first foal Loki’s Vengeance won the New York Stallion Stakes Times Square Stakes last April following a runner-up finish in the open Freddy Cappy Capossela Stakes in his stakes debut, and has earned $162,034.
All four of Subtle Sweetness’ foals on the ground are sired by Frost Giant, the leading freshman sire in New York and the Northeast in 2012, including her first filly born last April. The mare was bred back to the stallion this year.
In all, 13 of 19 New York-bred yearlings offered in Book 4 sold for an average price of $38,846 and median of 30,000. Cumulatively through the first four books of the sale, 40 New York-bred yearlings, of 60 offered, have realized an average price of $97,525. The $70,000 New York-bred median is keeping pace with the full sale’s $72,000 median (itself up 10.8 percent from $65,000 in 2013). The overall sale average to date is $124,847, up 5.6 percent from $118,234 last year.
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