Just up front to sell during the Keeneland January sale

Keeneland announced the Grade 1 winner and $2.8 million earner on December 8 Just in the front is entered for the January 2026 Horses of All Ages Sale and will be sold on January 12. Richard Hogan, agent for Colebrook Farms, transfers 4-year-old daughter from Summer front who is cataloged as a potential broodmare.

Simply in Front is a Summer Front half-sister to grade 1 winner And again (Omaha Beach ), who defeated Nitrogen in the Natalma Stakes (G1) last year, and stakes winner Church City (Air Force blue ). Summer Front, Omaha Beach and Air Force Blue are all sons of a prominent sire War front . Their mother, Complicated also produced grade 2 winner Honor D Lady .

“Simply in Front is a beautiful mare who comes from a deep, active family with possibly more black type on the horizon,” said Hogan. “There is real upside for buyers in 2026 and beyond.”

Simply in Front has delivered top performances from 2 to 4 years under the leadership of trainer Eddie Kenneally. In Keeneland’s First Lady Stakes (G1T) on October 4, she was well back at the top of the stretch in the 1-mile race before moving to the inside and beginning to split horses. Simply in Front collar grade 1 winner Choisya inside the sixteenth post and stopped the grade 2 winner Segesta with a neck to win. Segesta won the Matriarch Stakes (G1T) in her next start.

The performance earned Simply in Front her third win in five starts in 2025. She also won the Churchill Downs Distaff Turf Mile Stakes (G2T) and the KY Downs Preview Ladies Turf Mile Stakes at Ellis Park. At three she won the Music City Stakes (G2T) and at two she was runner-up to the five-time Grade 1 winner She feels beautiful in the Natalma deployment.

“Simply in Front gave us one of the highlights of the fall meeting with its First Lady win,” said Tony Lacy, Keeneland vice president of sales. “It is truly special to offer a Grade 1 winner in January, and she is exactly the quality buyers are looking for in their broodmare bands.”

From the Debt mare Complicated Simply in Front comes from an established Phipps family of Inside Information champion and Grade 1 winner Educated Risk. She was bred in Kentucky by William Harrigan and Mike Pietrangelo. Colebrook Farms picked up the filly as a yearling for $115,000 at the 2022 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

The online catalog for the January sale is expected to be released on December 9.

This press release has been edited for content and style by BloodHorse Staff.