NEWS: SALES

New York-bred yearlings average over $250,000 in Book 2 at Keeneland

Friday, September 15th, 2017

By Sarah Mace

Over the three days of “high-volume” horse-trading that comprised Keenland’s second book of yearlings on Tuesday through Thursday, New York-breds came away with an impressive average price of over $250,000 and low buyback percentage of 11.67%

Keeneland’s Book 2 this year, by virtue of a “tweaked” format for the marathon auction’s opening week, was billed as containing “top-quality” or “upper market” yearling offerings that would carry the momentum of Book 1’s single session of “elite” yearlings through the first week of the sale.

After scratches, 12 New York-bred yearlings passed through auction ring and 10 sold – all but one of them bringing six figures. The average New York-bred price was $252,400 and the median came in at $180,000. Tuesday’s first session of Book 2 saw the New York-bred star of the sale to date: a $750,000 Into Mischief yearling bred by Pine Ridge Stables and bought by Shadwell Estate Company. The other standout of the day was a $400,000 chestnut colt by Giant’s Causeway bred by Chester and Mary Broman.

Each of the following two days of Book 2 had a New York-bred star. On Thursday, before the sale went on its traditional Friday hiatus, Hip 1068 a filly by Bodemeister went to Mathis Stables from the consignment of Gerry Dilger’s Dromoland Farm for $400,000. Wednesday’s standout, like the Giant’s Causeway colt who brought $400,000 on Tuesday, was product of Chester and Mary Broman’s breeding program, Hip 788, who brought $230,000

Hip 1068 was bred by Tom Ryan et al’s SF Bloodstock, LLC. The bay January filly sold previously as a weanling for $140,000 at Keeneland’s November sale to Villa Roja Bloodstock. She is the first foal out of Bryan’s Jewel, a stakes-winning Kentucky-bred mare by Rockport Harbor from the family of champion older horse Left Bank. SF Bloodstock bought Bryan’s Jewel in 2014 for $300,000 at the Fasig-Tipton fall mixed sale and resold her in foal to Speightstown at Keeneland November in 2016 for $580,000.

Hip 788, the Broman-bred, is a dark bay or brown filly by Pioneerof the Nile foaled on April 17, 2016. The buyer, Ralph M. Evans, campaigned multiple graded stakes winner and multiple Grade 1 placed New York-bred Upstart, who stood his first year at stud in 2017 at Airdrie Stud. Sequel Bloodstock was the consignor.

The filly’s dam is Spritely, a multiple stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Kentucky-bred runner by Touch Gold, whom Chester Broman purchased for $850,000 in the Edward P. Evans Dispersal at the 2011 Keeneland November sale. Spritely’s two winners include Pauseforthecause, a Giant’s Causeway filly who broke her maiden first out at Saratoga on August 4. The mare has a weanling colt by Super Saver and was bred to Curlin this year.

At Keenland, the yearling auction will run in continuous sessions through September 23 following Friday’s dark day.

 

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