(Simply in Front / Photos by Holly M. Smith)

From the Keeneland Media Team / Amy Owens:

Keeneland to Sell Grade 1 Winner Simply in Front
at 2026 January Horses of All Ages Sale

LEXINGTON, KY (Dec. 8, 2025) – Keeneland today has announced that Grade 1 winner and $2.8 million earner Simply in Front has been cataloged to the 2026 January Horses of All Ages Sale on Monday, Jan. 12. Richard G. Hogan, agent for Colebrook Farms, is consigning the 4-year-old daughter of Summer Front who is cataloged as a broodmare prospect. Simply in Front is a three-quarter sister to both Grade 1 winner And One More Time, who defeated Nitrogen in the Johnnie Walker Natalma S. (G1) last year, and stakes winner Churchtown and is a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Honor D Lady.

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

Simply in Front has delivered top-level performances from age 2 through age 4. In Keeneland’s First Lady (G1) on Oct. 4, she was far back at the top of the stretch in the 1-mile turf race before she moved toward the inside and began splitting horses. Simply in Front collared Grade 1 winner Choisya (GB) inside the sixteenth pole and held off Grade 2 winner Segesta by a neck to win. Segesta won the Matriarch (G1) in her next start.

With the performance, Simply in Front scored her third victory in five starts in 2025. She also won the Churchill Downs Distaff Turf Mile (G2) and the KY Downs Preview Ladies Turf Mile at Ellis Park. At 3, she won the Music City Stakes (G2) and at 2 was runner-up to five-time Grade 1 winner She Feels Pretty in the Grade 1 Natalma.

“Simply in Front gave us one of the highlights of the Fall Meet with her First Lady win,” Keeneland Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy said. “To offer a Grade 1 winner this January is truly special, and she is exactly the quality that buyers will be seeking for their broodmare bands.”

Simply in Front, whose dam is Complicated, by Blame, is from an established Phipps family of champion Inside Information and Grade 1 winner Educated Risk.

The online catalog for the January Sale is scheduled to be available Tuesday, Dec. 9.

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Since its first race meet 89 years ago, the Keeneland Association has devoted itself to the health and vibrancy of the Thoroughbred industry. The world’s largest Thoroughbred auction house, Keeneland conducts five on-site sales a year, in January, April, September and November. Graduates of Keeneland sales dominate racing across the globe at every level. In April and October, Keeneland offers some of the highest caliber and richest Thoroughbred racing in the world. Keeneland will host the Breeders’ Cup World Championships in 2026 for the fourth time, following 2015, 2020 and 2022. Uniquely structured, Keeneland is a privately held company with a not-for-profit mission that returns its earnings to the industry and the community in the form of higher purses and millions of dollars donated in support of horse industry initiatives and charitable contributions for education, research, and health and human services throughout Central Kentucky. Keeneland also maintains Keeneland Library, a world-renowned public research institution with the mission of preserving information about the Thoroughbred industry. To learn more, visit Keeneland.com.

For more information please email Keeneland Communications Associate Amy Owens at aowens@keeneland.com