New York-breds go 2-for-2 in second session of Keeneland September

[1]By Sarah Mace

Only two New York-breds went through the ring during Tuesday’s second session of the 2018 Keeneland September yearling sale, but both proved highly attractive to bidders, selling to top-tier owners for $360,000 and $285,000, respectively.

Jim and Susan Hill, who in Session 1 purchased Hip 145[2], a New York-bred Lea colt bred by SF Bloodstock for $255,000, went to $360,000 to acquire the top New York-bred in Tuesday’s second session, a chestnut filly by Candy Ride (ARG) bred by Pine Ridge Stables Ltd and foaled on May 7, 2017.

Sold as Hip 447[3] from Gerry Dilger’s Dromoland Farm consignment, the chestnut filly is out of Stealthy, a winning Kentucky-bred Forest Wildcat mare. Stealthy’s lone foal to start, a gelding by Looking at Lucky named Lucky Enuff, has not yet won, but two other offspring have been appraised highly in the sales ring. Her New York-bred Flatter colt American Frontier brought $200,000 from Ben Glass, agent, at the 2015 Keeneland September sale. A New York-bred juvenile by Uncle Mo named Mo Stealthy was a $170,000 buyback at the same sale last year.

Stealthy is a half-sister to Bayou Mist, dam of multiple stakes winner Selva (Forest Wildcat). Selva, in turn, is the dam of Coltandmississippi, a graded stakes performer who contested the Jerome and Withers Stakes on the Kentucky Derby trail this year.

Also on Tuesday, Rick Porter’s Fox Hill Farm took home Hip 465[4] — a first-crop Bayern colt bred by SF Bloodstock LLC — after making a winning bid of $285,000.

Foaled on February 27, 2017 and consigned by Peter O’Callaghan’s Woods Edge Farm, Hip 465 marked himself as a standout when unveiled to the public as a weanling at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale last year, where he was purchased by Rocco Bloodstock for $200,000.

The Bayern colt is a half-brother to My Happy Face (Tiz Wonderful), a graded stakes winner and earner of over a half-million dollars, and his pedigree page is riddled with black type and familiar names through the first three generations.

The sale colt’s dam Summer Star is a California-bred stakes winner who has produced three other winners besides My Happy Face from as many to start. Summer Star is also a full sister to stakes winner Summer Sensation. Under the colt’s third dam Forumstar are graded winner and Santa Anita course record-setter Starry Ice, as well as stakes winners Champs Star and Distinguish Forum. Starry Ice is also the dam of Grade 1 Carter Handicap winner Forest Danger.

The Keeneland September Sale continues through Sunday, Sept. 23, with the third of four Book 1 sessions beginning Wednesday at 1 p.m. The Thursday session also will begin at 1 p.m.

New York-breds catalogued for the Keeneland sale (listed by hip number and dam with links to catalogue pages), may be found here[5].

 

 

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