Keeneland has cataloged 4,702 horses for its November Breeding Stock Sale, to
be held November 10 through November 22. Catalogs for the November Sale are now
available at www.keeneland.com. Print catalogs will be mailed the week of
October 19.
Keeneland delayed the start of its November Sale by one day to better
accommodate horsemen attending the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa
Anita, to be held Friday and Saturday, November 6-7. Sessions begin daily at 10
a.m. ET. Keeneland will provide live coverage of the entire 13-day sale at
www.keeneland.com.
“The November Sale offers quality and quantity unlike any other breeding
stock sale in the world,” Keeneland’s Director of Sales Geoffrey Russell said.
“This year’s catalog features some of the most outstanding broodmares and race
fillies on the market today.”
Highlighting the November Sale will be the dispersals of two of North
America’s most prestigious breeding establishments — the W.T. Young family’s
Overbrook Farm and Windfields Farm, founded by the late E.P. Taylor.
Also featured are mares covered by such first-year stallions as two-time
Horse of Year Curlin and 2008 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness S. (G1) winner
Big Brown.
Mares in foal to such other young stallions as After Market, Bernardini,
Corinthian, First Samurai, Hard Spun, Henny Hughes, Henrythenavigator, Invasor (Arg)
and Street Sense, among others, also are cataloged.
Mares covered by established sires such as A.P. Indy, Awesome Again,
Birdstone, Candy Ride (Arg), Danehill Dancer, Distorted Humor, Dixie Union,
Dynaformer, El Prado (Ire), Elusive Quality, Empire Maker, Galileo (Ire),
Ghostzapper, Giant’s Causeway, Gone West, Kingmambo, Medicean, More Than Ready,
Mr. Greeley, Pulpit, Rock Hard Ten, Smart Strike, Speightstown, Street Cry
(Ire), Tapit, Tiznow and Unbridled’s Song, among others, will be offered.
Of interest to buyers from the Southern Hemisphere are 22 mares consigned by
Adena Springs with foals by their sides that were produced by Southern
Hemisphere-timed matings to such stallions as Awesome Again, El Prado (Ire) and
Ghostzapper, among others.
Cataloged among the November Sale weanlings is one of the last three foals
sired by Storm Cat, who was pensioned in 2008.
Weanlings representing many of the world’s top sires, such as A.P. Indy,
Birdstone, Candy Ride (Arg), Distorted Humor, Dynaformer, Elusive Quality,
Empire Maker, Ghostzapper, Giant’s Causeway, Gone West, Kingmambo, Lemon Drop
Kid, Malibu Moon, Mr. Greeley, Pulpit, Smart Strike, Speightstown, Street Cry
(Ire), Tapit, Tiznow and Unbridled’s Song, among others, will be offered.
Also consigned are weanlings by such promising young sires as After Market,
Any Given Saturday, Bernardini, Bluegrass Cat, Bob and John, Borrego,
Corinthian, Discreet Cat, English Channel, First Samurai, Flashy Bull, Half
Ours, Hard Spun, Henny Hughes, Invasor (Arg), Jazil, Latent Heat, Lawyer Ron,
Master Command, Medaglia d’Oro, Political Force, Rockport Harbor, Scat Daddy and
Street Sense, among others.
Of the 4,702 horses cataloged in November, 2,337 are broodmares, 1,885 are
weanlings, 476 are horses of racing age and four are stallions.
The November Sale counts among its graduates such 2009 stakes winners as
champion and Diana S. (G1) winner Forever Together (Belong to Me); Vosburgh S.
(G1) winner Kokiak Kowboy (Posse); Darley Debutante (G1) winner Mi Sueno
(Pulpit); West Virginia Derby (G2) winner Soul Warrior (Lion Heart); Palos
Verdes H. (G2) winner Johnny Eves (Skimming); Play the King S. (G2) winner
Jungle Wave (Hold That Tiger); Glens Falls H. (G3) winner Mushka (Empire Maker);
Turfway Park Fall Championship (G3) winner Nite Light (Thunder Gulch); Canadian
Turf (G3) winner Twilight Meteor (Smart Strike); Fair Grounds H. (G3) winner
Diamond Tycoon (Johannesburg); Eight Belles S. (G3) winner Four Gifts (Even the
Score); and Dogwood S. (G3) winner Hightap (Tapit).