Keeneland has
cataloged 4,026 horses for its 2014 November Breeding Stock Sale, to be held
November 4-14. Thoroughbred breeders from around the globe will attend the sale
to acquire broodmares in foal to the world’s leading stallions and recently
retired stakes-winning fillies ready to become broodmares.
Catalogs will be available electronically via Keeneland’s website beginning
Tuesday. Print catalogs will be mailed the week of October 13.
The total includes 2,082 broodmares and broodmare prospects, 1,589 weanlings,
350 horses of racing age and five stallions.
“The November Sale is the world’s most important sale of bloodstock,”
Keeneland Vice President of Sales Walt Robertson said. “Keeneland’s recent
September Yearling Sale once again proved that horsemen from around the globe
shop at Keeneland, and those and other horsemen will return for this premier
offering of breeding stock.”
The November Sale includes mares in foal to 208 of the world’s most prominent
stallions and exciting young sires, including Alternation, Animal Kingdom, Arch,
Astrology, Awesome Again, Bernardini, Bodemeister, Broken Vow, Candy Ride, Cape
Blanco, Congrats, Creative Cause, Data Link, Declaration of War, Denman,
Distorted Humor, Dubawi, Elusive Quality, Galileo, Ghostzapper, Giant’s
Causeway, Graydar, I Want Revenge, Keep Up, Kitten’s Joy, Lemon Drop Kid,
Liaison, Lucky Pulpit, Malibu Moon, Medaglia d’Oro, More Than Ready, Morning
Line, New Year’s Day, Orb, Overanalyze, Oxbow, Paynter, Pioneerof the Nile,
Point of Entry, Power Broker, Scat Daddy, Sea the Stars, Shanghai Bobby, Smart
Strike, Speightstown, Stormy Atlantic, Street Cry, Street Sense, Super Saver,
Take Charge Indy, Tapit, Tiznow, Trappe Shot, Union Rags, Violence and War
Front.
Weanlings in the catalog represent 196 leading stallions such as Algorithms,
Americain, Arch, Awesome Again, Bernardini, Biondetti, Bodemeister, Brilliant
Speed, Broken Vow, Bullet Train, Candy Ride, City Zip, Congrats, Distorted
Humor, Elusive Quality, Gemologist, Ghostzapper, Giant’s Causeway, Hansen, Hard
Spun, Harlan’s Holiday, Invincible Spirit, Kitten’s Joy, Lemon Drop Kid,
Maclean’s Music, Malibu Moon, Medaglia d’Oro, Midnight Lute, Mission Impazible,
More Than Ready, Pioneerof the Nile, Scat Daddy, Sea the Stars, Shackleford,
Smart Strike, Speightstown, Stay Thirsty, Street Cry , Super Saver, Tapit,
Tapizar, The Factor, Tiznow, To Honor and Serve, Trappe Shot, Unbridled’s Song,
Uncle Mo, Union Rags, War Front and Warrior’s Reward.
Prominent November Sale alumni sold as weanlings include 2014 Grade 1 winners
Declassify, Fashion Plate and Sunset Glow; Grade/Group 2 winners Cavorting, Fire
With Fire, Frac Daddy, Grand Arch, Heart Stealer, Mshawish, Noble Moon, Solid
Appeal and Spellbound; and Grade/Group 3 winners Azarenka, Balance of Power,
Best Warrior, Bradester, Can the Man, Daddy Nose Best, Falling Sky, Flashy
American, J Wonder, Munirah, Sharp Sensation, Southern Honey, Thank You Marylou,
Tonito M. and War Dancer.
On Wednesday, November 5, the session will conclude with an exclusive draft
of mares bred to dual-hemisphere stallion Scat Daddy on Southern Hemisphere
time. Scat Daddy, the leading sire this year in Chile, stands in Kentucky at
Ashford Stud, which is consigning the mares.
On Tuesday, November 11, the session will include horses of racing age,
including the annual consignment from WinStar Racing, agent.
The sale’s first two sessions, which are included in Book 1, will begin at 11
a.m. (EDT). The remaining sessions start at 10 a.m.