Session-topping yearling another example of Spendthrift stallion’s prowess If there has been one certainty about the Keeneland September Yearling Sale taking place in uncertain times, it’s that horses bred by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings and offspring of Spendthrift Farm’s Into Mischief (Harlan’s Holiday) are in high demand.   Those forces combined on Thursday when a striking... Read More

Wednesday’s trade topped by $950,000 Uncle Mo colt The Keeneland September Yearling Sale entered a new realm and price point during Wednesday’s session that began Book 2 after a one-day break that followed the two-day Book 1 in which 14 horses were sold for seven figures. No individual broke through the $1 million mark as... Read More

Atmosphere and electricity return to the ring in frenetic conclusion to Book 1 With a barrage of bidding firepower lighting up the board at Keeneland, the final minutes of the September yearling sale’s elite Book 1 were so electric on Monday that buyers and sellers alike could almost forget about the coronavirus cloud that has... Read More

In most other years, the numbers generated by the opening session of the Keeneland September sale, the world’s largest yearling marketplace, would have been cause for general alarm, if not the beginning stages of panic. For starters, more than 51 per cent of the 224 horses cataloged for Sunday’s session were withdrawn or listed as... Read More

Two-time Australian Group 1 winner Con Te Partiro (Scat Daddy) will add an international flavour to one of the world’s premier bloodstock sales, Book 1 of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, when she is offered in Lexington on November 9. It will come two days after the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained mare contests... Read More