Keeneland sold 259 horses for $25,328,500 on Saturday, a 27% increase over last year’s corresponding session when 267 horses grossed $20,002,500. The average price on Saturday was $97,793 – up 31% from $74,916 in 2024. The median rose 49% from $57,000 to $85,000. The RNA percentage of 17% represented the 53 horses that failed to meet their reserve. Last year the RNA percentage at this session was 19%.
Demand for high-quality young mares continued through the fifth session, with Way Too Sexy (Hip 1482) commanding the highest price of the day, $400,000, from Coteau Grove Farms agent Cary Bloodstock.
The 4 year old daughter of Flattering pregnant was offered McKinzie by Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa, constable. Way Too Sexy is out of the multi-rated More Than Ready mare Ready to Confess, and is a half-sister to the stakes winner No confession (In mischief ).
“Way Too Sexy was very appropriately named,” said Andrew Cary. “Just a beautiful mare from a thriving Pin Oak family. Flatter is an up and coming broodmare sire and stud sire McKinzie made a great start in breeding and was a racehorse warrior.
“Peter O’Callaghan bought her (Way Too Sexy) as a weanling mare and Donato Lanni and Bob Baffert bought her as a yearling; you can’t get better judges. We’ve had a fantastic yearling sales season and we’re excited to add a young, high-quality mare to the broodmare band. It’s always important to keep upgrading and innovating.”
Cary, consultant to Keith and Ginger Myer’s Coteau Grove Farms near Sunset, La., had a great year both in the sales ring and on the track, highlighted by the horses they bred Touch a star And Tumbarumba – both winners of the rated stake and millionaires.
“The market was incredibly strong and we only purchased two mares,” Cary said. “I think we bought ten last year. Yesterday we underbid the two best mares, but we were very happy to get this beauty today.”
The weanling market remained strong until the end of Book 3, with a colt (Hip 1541) from Vekoma topped the fifth session with $375,000, sold to En Fuego Stables. The colt was bred in Kentucky by Aymen Moftah Inkeep and is the first foal from the unraced Nyquist mare Camelot’s Cup, who is a half-sister to multi-level State of Honor. It was shipped by Columbiana Farm.
The most expensive weanling filly of the session was a Elite power filly, consigned as Hip 1819 by Indian Creek, agent, and purchased by Renee Logan. She was bred in Kentucky by William B. Thompson Jr. out of the stakes-winning Speightstown mare Shot Gun Pennie, the dam of stakes winners Duke of Carthania and Whatwasithinking, plus the graded stakes placing Guileful.
Faris Breeding was the top buyer for the second consecutive session, with six purchases totaling $930,000. Gainesway topped the consignors, selling 37 of their design for $3,807,000.
The Keeneland November Sale continues on November 9 at 10am for the start of Book 4. Hips 1858-2271 goes to the ring. As of Saturday evening, Keeneland had reported 77 zeros.
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