By Christie DeBernardis
The gross sales motion strikes throughout city Wednesday with bidding on the primary session of Keeneland November beginning at 1 p.m. The ten-day public sale, which runs by Nov. 19, opens with a single-session Guide 1 comprised of 229 mares and weanlings, 5 of which have been late dietary supplements. The sale has 5 books in complete and the final half of the ultimate day will likely be devoted to 285 Horses of Racing Age.
“We’ve a whole lot of optimism,” stated Cormac Breathnach, Keeneland’s Director of Gross sales. “We had an electrical environment beginning in Guide 1 of September and persevering with by the final day. We’re seeing by the credit score software course of, the issues we’re listening to on the grounds and folks coming over now that borders are open that the demand that we noticed in September goes to roll over with renewed curiosity in breeding inventory and weanlings to pinhook.”
The September sale additionally boasted a stronger center market than the trade had seen in recent times, which is more likely to trickle down into this public sale.
“I believe the center market goes to be extraordinarily sturdy,” Claiborne’s Walker Hancock stated. “Primarily based off the September gross sales, you might purchase a mare for $20,000 or $30,000 and promote the foal for at the very least double that. We’re actually seeing a rise within the power of that a part of the market, which is sweet for everyone.”
The Breeders’ Cup offered some well timed updates to some members of the KEENOV catalogue. Charmaine’s Mia (The Factor) completed third in Saturday’s GI Breeders’ Cup Turf Dash and is obtainable right here as Hip 172. Taylor Made presents an Audible half-sister to GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies runner-up Juju’s Warrior (Hip 1801) and H idden Brook has a Hard Spun half-brother (Hip 251) to GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf third Haughty (Empire Maker).
“There’s a whole lot of depth within the catalogue and mares in foal to thrilling sires like Into Mischief,” Breathnach stated. “Charmaine’s Mia had an enormous replace on an already nice web page and [GISW] Paris Lights (Curlin) was a complement, as was Jazz Tune (Johannesburg), dam of [GISW] Rattle N Roll (Connect).”
The November Sale is often known as a spot too purchase racehorses they usually have reformatted that portion of the sale this yr, inserting it in a single session on the public sale’s last day.
“A brand new wrinkle now we have for this yr is we break up the Horses of Racing Age part off onto the final day simply to segregate it and we will have a later entry of complement,” Breathnach stated. “Even after scratches, we predict about 220 to get right here center of subsequent week. We’re listening to nice suggestions about that maneuver.”
Final yr’s Keeneland November was topped by Grade I winner Concrete Rose (Twirling Candy), who summoned $1.95 million from Larry Greatest’s Oxo Equine. Greatest additionally bought the second highest-priced providing, $1.9-million Indian Miss (Indian Charlie), who’s the dam of champion Mitole (Eskendereya) and GISW Sizzling Rod Charlie (Oxbow). She bought in foal to red-hot sire Into Mischief.
The Triple Crown-winning duo of Justify and American Pharoah have been accountable for the most costly weanlings on the 2020 renewal of KEENOV. A colt from the primary crop of Justify introduced $600,000 from Donato Lanni and an American Pharoah half-brother to MGISW Jackie’s Warrior (Maclean’s Music) summoned the identical value from Coolmore’s M.V. Magnier.
On the 2020 public sale, a complete of two,287 head bought, together with post-sales, for a gross of $157,822,800. The common was $69,009 and the median was $25,000.
The Keeneland November Sale runs from Nov. 10 to Nov. 19 with the primary session beginning at 1 p.m. and the remaining 9 periods starting at 10 a.m.
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