(Hip 476, a colt by Candy Ride and consigned to the sale by B.C. Jones’ Airdrie Stud is on our “shopping list.” / Photo by Holly M. Smith)
(Hip 542, a daughter of the great Curlin, turned a few heads this week. She is on our list, too. / Photo by Holly M. Smith)
(Hip 532, a colt by Into Mischief and from the consignment of Dromoland Farm and Gerry Dilger, is another ready to spike a price fever on Wednesday. / Photo by Holly M. Smith)
The heat certainly got cranked up a notch on Tuesday, the second day of this year’s annual Keeneland September Yearling Sale.
And, so too did the bidding. Tepid turned to warm. Warm to hot. Hot to white hot. White hot to whatever comes next.
A Curlin colt went for $4.1 million, to become the highest priced yearling sold at public auction this year. Godolphin bought him.
A little earlier in the day, a War Front colt went for $2.9 million, which made him the highest priced yearling to be sold — for just a little bit. Godolphin bought him, too.
That’s $7 million for two horses, and that’s coming on the heels of Monday’s session when Godolphin purchased the two highest priced yearlings on the day, as well.
So, the moral of the story is pretty simple.
If you have a good looking horse and you want to make a lot of money send someone over to the Godolphin contingency and issue them a private invitation to take a gander at your horsepower. It may add up to a handsome sum, and a good day at the office — all rolled into one.
Here’s a look at our “Shopping List” for Wednesday, Day 3 and the final installment of Book 1 in this year’s event:
Day 3 | |||||||
381 | Colt | Candy Ride | First Samurai | Lane’s End | 1 & 6 | 2nd Dam is Sister to Pulpit / 1st Dam is GSP & SW | |
382 | Colt | American Pharoah | Smart Strike | Hunter Valley | 21 | Althea FF | |
384 | Colt | War Front | Galileo | Taylor Made | 22 & 23 | Cross Worked On G3 Winner Mizzou / Grass Pedigree | |
386 | Filly | Amierican Pharoah | Galileo | Hunter Valley | 21 | 2nd Dam Is Mariah’s Storm / Giant’s Causeway FF | |
388 | Colt | Ghostzapper | Tiznow | KatieRich Farms | 14 | Dam is G2 Stakes Placed | |
389 | Filly | Medaglia d’Oro | Silent Name | Taylor Made | 22 & 23 | G2 Winning Dam / First Foal / | |
395 | Colt | Speightstown | War Front | Timber Town | 6 | Dam G3 Stakes Placed / Dance Colony, Cavorting FF | |
397 | Filly | Curlin | Bernardini | Hill ‘n’ Dale | 7 | First Foal Out of G2 Stakes Winner | |
400 | Filly | Kitten’s Joy | Distorted Humor | Taylor Made | 22 & 23 | 1/2-Sister to Naughty Joker, Cathedral Reader | |
405 | Colt | Nyquist | Unbridled’s Song | Ashview | 15 | Dam G3 Stakes Placed / At the Half, Lu Ravi, Ravi’s Song FF | |
408 | Colt | Ghostzapper | Smart Strike | Gainesway | 2 & 5 | 1st Foal out of Winning Mare / 2nd Dam G2 Winner | |
409 | Colt | Into Mischief | Distorted Humor | Castle Park | 26 | 1/2-Brother to GSP Dam / Munnings FF | |
412 | Colt | Ghostzapper | Gilded Time | Taylor Made | 22 & 23 | Full Brother to Shaman Ghost | |
414 | Colt | Twirling Candy | Silver Ghost | Stone Farm | 15 | 1/2-Brother to Roadster & Ascend | |
416 | Colt | Curlin | Giant’s Causeway | Lane’s End | 1 & 6 | 1/2-Brother to Family Tree & Liora | |
420 | Filly | Medaglia d’Oro | Ghostzapper | Taylor Made | 22 & 23 | G3 Stakes Winning 1st Dam | |
424 | Colt | Ghostzapper | Medaglia d’Oro | Sierra Farm | 25 | Fire the Groom 2nd Dam / Stravinsky, Moscow Ballet FF | |
425 | Colt | Medaglia d’Oro | Coronado’s Quest | Buck Pond Farm | 20 | 1/2-Brother to Wedding Toast / Congaree FF | |
426 | Filly | Curlin | Yes It’s True | Gainesway | 2 & 5 | Full Sister to Valadorna | |
428 | Colt | Curlin | A.P. Indy | Hill ‘n’ Dale | 7 | 2nd Foal Out of G1 Winning Dam Got Lucky | |
431 | Colt | Curlin | Bernardini | Glennwood Farm | 14 | 1/2 Brother to Mo Town | |
434 | Filly | Tapit | Hard Spun | Denali Stud | 5 | 2nd Foal From G1 Winning Dam | |
437 | Filly | American Pharoah | johannesburg | Runnymede Farm | 6 | 1/2 Sister to Collected — Who Earned Over $2.9M | |
439 | Filly | War Front | Unbridled’s Song | Taylor Made | 22 & 23 | Dynaformer’s FF | |
444 | Colt | Uncle Mo | Chester House | Gainesway | 2 & 5 | 1/2-Brother to Twirling Candy | |
453 | Colt | Medaglia d’Oro | Dixie Union | Hunter Valley | 21 | 1/2-Brother to Klimt | |
456 | Colt | War Front | Bluegrass Cat | Mt. Brilliant | 15 | 1/2-Brother to Wweet Loretta | |
459 | Colt | Honor Code | Tiznow | Greenfield Farm | 25 | 1/2-Brother to It Tiz Well | |
460 | Filly | Curlin | Congrats | Mill Ridge Farm | 11 | Constitution’s Female Family | |
462 | Filly | Curlin | Jewel of a Cat | Taylor Made | 22 & 23 | 1st Foal Out of Stakes Winner Jewel of a Cat | |
466 | Colt | Pioneerof the Nile | Dixie Unio | Clearsky Farms | 12 | 1/2-Brother to Mohaymen, New Year’s Day, Kingly | |
467 | Filly | Uncle Mo | Tapit | Gainesway | 2 & 5 | 1st Dam Is Sister to My Miss Lilly, Wiucked Indeed | |
471 | Filly | Kitten’s Joy | Maria’s Mon | Four Star Sales | 18 | 1/2-Sister to Lady of Fifty & Others | |
471 | Filly | American Pharoah | Johar | Denali Stud | 5 | 1/2-Sister to Ticonderoga | |
477 | Colt | Candy Ride | Include | B.C. Jones | 12 | 1/2-Brother to Sam’s Sister & Sensitive | |
478 | Colt | More Than Ready | Tale of the Cat | Mill Ridge Farm | 11 | Quality Road FF | |
479 | Colt | Ghostzapper | Fasliyev | Hill ‘n’ Dale | 7 | 1/2-Brother to America / Blush With Pride Is 3rd Dam | |
480 | Colt | Tapit | Ghostzapper | Taylor Made | 22 & 23 | Full Brother to Bellavais | |
481 | Colt | Super Saver | Holy Bull | Four Star Sales | 18 | 1/2-Brother to Munnings | |
485 | Filly | Empire Maker | Orientate | Gainesway | 2 & 5 | 1/2-Sister to Jaywalk | |
486 | Colt | Uncle Mo | Midwhipman | Taylor Made | 22 & 23 | 1st Foal out of Lady Shipman | |
488 | Colt | Into Mischief | Munnings | Buck Pond Farm | 20 | 1st Foal out of SW Mare | |
489 | Colt | Curlin | Tapit | Gainesway | 2 & 5 | Verrazano FF | |
498 | Filly | American Pharoah | Tricky Creek | Clarkland Farm | 5 | 1/2-Sister to Beholder, Mendelssohn, Into Mischief | |
499 | Colt | Candy Ride | Menifee | Betz Thoro | 26 | 1/2-Brother to J Boys Echo | |
500 | Filly | Ghostzapper | Jade Hunter | Valkyre | 24 | Lethal Heat FF | |
501 | Filly | American Pharoah | Tiznow | Stone Farm | 15 | 1/2-Sister to American Patriot | |
503 | Colt | War Front | Sadler’s Wells | Four Star Sales | 18 | Full Brother to Brave Anna & Hit It a Bomb | |
508 | Filly | Curlin | A.P. Indy | Four Star Sales | 18 | 1st Dam G1 Winner / Bernardini FF | |
510 | Colt | War Front | Sadler’s Wells | Lane’s End Farm | 1 & 6 | 1/2-Brother to Storm the Stars / Giant’s Causeway FF | |
512 | Filly | Empire Maker | Tale of the Cat | Denali Stud | 5 | Versailles Treaty is 3rd Dam | |
517 | Colt | War Front | Galileo | Denali Stud | 5 | Found’s FF | |
519 | Colt | Pioneerof the Nile | Distorted Humor | Taylor Made | 22 & 23 | 1/2-Brother to Guarana, Magic Dance | |
523 | Filly | Into Mischief | Malibu Moon | Four Star Sales | 18 | Dam G2 Winner / 1/2-Sister to Coasted | |
524 | Colt | Candy Ride | Carson City | Bedouin Bloodstock | 25 | McKinzie FF | |
534 | Filly | Ghostzapper | Street Sense | Mill Ridge Farm | 11 | Same Cross as G3 Winner Ghost Hunter | |
537 | Colt | Pioneerof the Nile | Street Sense | Woodford Thoro | 11 | 1st Foal Out of GSP & SW Dam / Rushing Fall in 2nd Dam | |
542 | Filly | Curlin | Medaglia d’Oro | Gainesway Farm | 2 & 5 | 1/2-Sister to Gun It / Gun Runner FF | |
545 | Filly | Nyquist | Pulpit | Elm Tree LLC | 20 | Rush Bay FF | |
546 | Colt | Uncle Mo | Trippi | Taylor Made | 22 & 23 | 1/2-Brother to Liam’s Map, Not This Time | |
555 | Filly | Tapit | Smart Strike | Eaton Sales | 1 | My Miss Aurelia 1st Dam / She won Over $2.5M | |
557 | Colt | Into Mischief | Ghostzapper | Candy Meadows | 24 | Dam is G2 Winner / Degenerate Gal FF | |
560 | Colt | Ghostzapper | Smart Strike | Denali Stud | 5 | Dam is G2 Winner / Klimt FF | |
561 | Colt | Union Rags | Indian Charlie | Ashview Farm | 15 | 1/2-Brother to Wyatt’s Town / 2nd Dam Is Lu Ravi | |
562 | Colt | Flatter | Strong Hope | Claiborne Farm | 6 | 1/2-Brother to Recuriting Ready / Bolt d’Oro FF | |
563 | Colt | Quality Road | Speightstown | Woods Edge Farm | 4 | 1/2-Brother to Engage |