LEXINGTON, KY – With Godolphin’s Belle Road (Street Sense) main the way in which at $550,000, the Ebook 3 part of the Keeneland November Breeding Inventory Sale opened Saturday with sturdy outcomes because the 10-day public sale continues to trace properly forward of 2020 figures.
Throughout Saturday’s session, 252 head grossed $19,981,500. The session common of $79,292 was up 36.37% from the corresponding 2020 determine and the median of $65,000 was up 49.43%. With 78 horses reported not offered, the buy-back charge was 23.64%. It was 24.67% a yr in the past.
Via 4 periods, 838 head have offered for $146,615,500. The typical of $174,959 is up 12.99% from a yr in the past and the median of $120,000 is up 33.33%. The buy-back charge stands at 22.62%, down from 27.41% in 2020.
The unraced Belle Road, who offered to Gary Broad, was one among 15 mares offered by Godolphin Saturday for gross receipts of $2.17 million.
“It is the identical with all the pieces we have had undergo the ring to this point,” stated Godolphin’s Michael Banahan. “You possibly can in all probability put an additional 20, 30, 35% on high what we have been valuing the mares at. It is simply been an unbelievably sturdy market.”
City and Nation Horse Farm president Shannon Potter acquired two mares Saturday.
“It has been sturdy. It has been very sturdy,” Potter stated. “Particularly at Fasig and right here the primary few days. We have been actually pissed off going into the second day attempting to get one thing purchased. But it surely’s nice for the enterprise. I like to see it thriving like this.”
Peter O’Callaghan bought the session’s top-priced weanling, going to $210,000 to amass a daughter of Nyquist (hip 1183) from the Taylor Made Gross sales Company consignment.
“She was our decide of the day,” O’Callaghan stated of the pinhooking prospect. “I believed we might get her for a few bids much less and we have been hoping to get her for lower than $200,000. That was completely our final bid.”
Of the foal market at Keeneland this week, O’Callaghan stated, “It is extraordinarily aggressive for these high foals. There was loads of racing cash right here early and a few sturdy pinhooking teams, so no matter you worth them at, even should you worth them generously, you virtually have so as to add $50,000 to it. So it is powerful. We purchased fewer foals and our expenditure may be much more than final yr. It would not make for sum, however it’s what it’s. We simply preserve transferring on.”
The Keeneland November sale continues via Friday with periods starting every day at 10 a.m.
Belle Road Tops Saturday Returns
The unraced Belle Road (Street Sense) (hip 1153), a half-sister to Eight Belles (Unbridled’s Track) and in foal to the late Bernardini, drew a crowd of admirers earlier than promoting for $550,000 to the bid of Gary Broad of Walmac Farm.
The three-year-old mare was bred and consigned by Godolphin and was the spotlight of an providing of 15 mares from Sheikh Mohammed’s operation which offered for $2.17 million at Keeneland Saturday.
“She is a handsome mare from an excellent household,” Godolphin’s Michael Banahan stated of Belle Road. “With the market that’s in right here, we did not anticipate that she would carry that sort of cash, nevertheless it’s been so sturdy right here for the reason that gross sales began at Fasig. She deserved to make loads of cash, however once more she made properly over what we might have valued her at and what her reserve was.”
Belle Road was one among 9 mares Godolphin offered Saturday in foal to its champion Bernardini, who handed away in July. That group, which additionally included the $215,000 Tactical Transfer (First Protection), grossed $1,525,000.
Bernardini has earned a repute as a stellar broodmare sire and Banahan stated many potential consumers have been hopeful of shopping for mares carrying fillies by the late stallion.
“We do not fetal intercourse any of our mares and all people desires to know if they’re carrying a filly or not,” Banahan stated. “That is the rationale they wish to purchase these mares in foal to him. He is been a unbelievable stallion for us and he is became an unbelievable broodmare sire. Everyone seems to be attempting to get a filly out of those mares. However his colts aren’t too dangerous both on the racetrack.”
Godolphin’s choices Saturday have been a traditional a part of sustaining the operation’s broodmare band, in keeping with Banahan.
“It is a part of what we do yearly, simply attempting to streamline our broodmare band,” he stated. “We’ve to maintain the standard as greatest we are able to on the high.”
Amongst consumers who’ve had success shopping for from Godolphin in previous Keeneland November gross sales is the O’Farrell household’s Ocala Stud, which bought Indelible (Tiznow), a half-sister to Godolphin’s 2020 champion juvenile Important High quality (Tapit), for $130,000 on the 2019 November and resold her Tuesday at Fasig-Tipton for $1.6 million.
“Anytime we’ve got introduced mares to sale, persons are very eager to attempt to get into the Godolphin households,” Banahan stated. “They’ve accomplished very properly for different individuals as properly. We’re going to preserve ‘X’ quantity of mares and preserve the standard up as a lot as we are able to. And that is a matter of culling some mares and a few of them are going to show into very useful industrial mares for different individuals as properly. Shopping for mares from any of the nice proprietor/breeders–which Godolphin could be one–everyone seems to be drawn to these households as a result of you’ll be able to’t get into them. There are nice alternatives stepping into them. Perhaps they skip a technology, however they’re normally there and they’ll come again once more. And that is why they’re so in style.”
Important High quality (Tapit), in the meantime, is again residence at Jonabell Farm and getting ready to start out his stud profession subsequent yr.
“He is been busy and settled in very properly,” Banahan stated of the champion. “He is a unbelievable horse to have on the farm once more. He is been proven the final couple of days and he is like knowledgeable on the market. We’re very pleased with him and I feel he’ll have an important profession as a stallion. We’re excited to have him on the market.”
Important High quality’s dam Pleasant High quality is at the moment in foal to Tapit and is anticipated to be bred again to that Gainesway stallion subsequent yr. Her 2-year-old Famed (Uncle Mo) was tabbed a ‘TDN Rising Star’ after her maiden rating at Churchill Downs Oct. 30 and the Brad Cox-trained filly is anticipated to make her subsequent begin within the Nov. 27 GII Golden Rod S. at Churchill, in keeping with Banahan.
Trophy Spouse to Gainesway
Larkin Armstrong signed the ticket at $340,000 to amass the 12-year-old mare Trophy Spouse (Big’s Causeway) (hip 1083), in foal to Mastery, from the Claiborne Farm consignment Saturday at Keeneland.
“It is a great household and [Gainesway owner] Antony Beck liked her,” Armstrong stated. “We thought it was an important alternative to get into an incredible household.”
Bred by Phipps Secure, Trophy Spouse is a daughter of
GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner Nice Dwelling (In search of the Gold) and is a half-sister to Grade I-placed Nice Orb (Orb), in addition to to Magical World (Distorted Humor), who produced Grade I winner Guarana (Ghostzapper) and SW/GSP Magic Dance (More Than Ready).
Final Tuesday, Magical World offered for $5.2 million and Guarana offered for $4.4 million on the Fasig-Tipton November sale.
“We liked Guarana and Magical World,” Armstrong stated. “They clearly introduced a number of million every. Hopefully we are able to get some good foals from this mare.”
Trophy Spouse is already the dam of stakes-placed Excessive Tech (Knowledge Hyperlink) and Energy Transfer (More Than Ready).
Larkin was again in motion for Gainesway late in Saturday’s session, buying Pink Caddy (El Padrino) (hip 1403) for $240,000 from the Taylor Made Gross sales Company consignment.
City and Nation Restocks
City and Nation Farms added Tactical Transfer (First Defence) (hip 1060) to its broodmare band when farm president Shannon Potter signed the ticket at $215,000 early in Saturday’s fourth session of the Keeneland November sale. From the Godolphin consignment, the 4-year-old mare offered in foal to the late Bernardini. She is a daughter of Grade I winner Recreation Face and a half-sister to graded-placed Coliseum (Tapit).
“She has a very good pedigree and we just like the bodily,” Potter stated of the mare’s enchantment. “And he or she’s in foal to a horse who’s not with us. We actually like Bernardini. So we are attempting to get a couple of extra earlier than they’re all gone.”
Tactical Transfer was City and Nation’s fourth buy at Keeneland this week. The operation additionally acquired I Dare U (Daredevil) (hip 129) for $450,000; Celestial Kitten (Kitten’s Joy) (hip 793) for $125,000; and Dreamalildreamofu (Commissioner) (hip 834) for $235,000.
Later in Saturday’s session, City and Nation bought Bazinga Child (Afleet Alex) (hip 1145) for $170,000.
“We’re promoting fairly a couple of mares right here on the sale, simply attempting to cull out some, and add to the highest,” Potter defined.
