New York-breds contribute to record Keeneland September sale

The record-setting Keeneland September yearling wrapped up Saturday with New York-breds helping add to the more than $531 million in total receipts.

Fifteen New York-breds brought for $100,000 or more during the 12-session sale, including colts that commanded bids of $675,000 and $500,000 apiece. Keeneland reported sales on 91 of the 113 New York-breds through the ring or via private post-sale for a total of $6,099,500, an average price of $67,028 and median of $23,000.

Hip 207[2], a colt by Constitution bred by Kristen and Matt Esler’s Thirty Year Farm, brought the top price of $675,000 from Case Clay Thoroughbred Management during Book 1. Foaled at Thirty Year Farm in Saratoga Springs, the colt is the sixth foal out of Walking Miracle. He was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.

Thirty Year Farm bought the mare carrying the Constitution colt in utero for $525,000 at the 2023 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. She delivered the colt about two months later, January 26, at the farm not far from Saratoga Race Course.

Walking Miracle, a half-sister to the Grade 3 winner and $279,052-earner Sound Money, is the dam of stakes winners Swill and Stitched. She’s also the dam of a New York-bred weanling colt by Good Magic, foaled March 12 at Thirty Year Farm.

The $500,000 colt, a son of leading second-crop sire and multiple Grade 1 winner Vekoma, sold during the first Book 2 session last week. Bloodstock agent Barry Berkelhammer, bidding on behalf of Albaugh Family Racing, West Point Thoroughbreds and Team Railbird, landed Hip 566[3].

Bred by and foaled at Sequel New York LLC in Hudson, the colt is out of the winning Yes It’s True mare True History. She’s the dam of the 3-year-old Violence gelding Rout, who sold for $280,000 at the 2023 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale; and the five-time winning New York-bred Destin mare True Destiny.

Consigned by Hunter Valley Farm, agent, the colt originally sold out of the Burleson Farms consignment for $180,000 to Cherry Knoll Farm at this year’s Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.

Thirty Year Farm also sold the sale’s top-priced New York-bred filly and fourth highest priced New York-bred yearling overall. Mike Repole’s Repole Stable landed Hip 231[4], a filly by Life Is Good and half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner Casa Creed, for $350,000 during Book 1.

The filly is the eighth foal out of the unraced Bellamy Road mare Achalaya, who is the dam of five winners from five foals to race. Also foaled at Thirty Year Farm in Saratoga Springs, she was consigned by Paramount Sales, agent.

The five winners include Charlotte’s Heart, a New York-bred daughter of Authentic bred by Thirty Year Farm who sold for $ 725,000 at the 2023 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale of selected yearlings. Campaigned by Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation, Charlotte’s Heart won her debut in 2024 at Saratoga Race Course before a second in the Glorious Song Stakes at Woodbine. She’s 1-2-0 in six starts with $114,732 in earnings.

Grassroots Training & Sales LLC purchased the sale’s top-priced yearling by a New York-based sire, going to $55,000 for a colt by Mind Control. The colt also topped the final two sessions of the sale, leading the way for Book 5B.

Hip 4123[6], who is out of the unraced Flatter mare First Valentine, sold out of the Johnson Cross consignment. Bred by Rockridge Stud LLC, Animals in Motion and Chesapeake Farm, the colt is the third foal out of First Valentine. She’s the dam of the New York-bred 2-year-old Known Agenda gelding Chairmanoftheboard, who sold for $55,000 at the 2023 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale.

The colt is from the first crop of multiple Grade 1 winner Mind Control, a 9-year-old son of Stay Thirsty who stands for $8,000 as part of a Rockridge Stud/Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Venture at Rockridge in Hudson.

The next major yearling market featuring New York-breds comes later this month with the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic yearling sale September 30 in Timonium, Maryland.

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