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Seventy-fifth September Sale

Gun It, was a Keeneland September Sale grad of 2017. He sold for the second highest price for a North American yearling.
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Hip 69, a filly sired by Tapit, her dam is Pretty n' Smart, was 2017's top priced yearling sold in North America, at the Keeneland September Sale!
Hip 69, a filly sired by Tapit, her dam is Pretty n’ Smart, was 2017’s top priced yearling sold in North America, at the Keeneland September Sale!

Suddenly it’s sales time!  I love attending the September Yearling Sales at Keeneland in Lexington, KY.  You never know what you’re looking at the first time you see it.  Justify, our latest Triple Crown winner, is a Keeneland September sales grad.  Today’s yearlings are classic champions in as little as 2 years time.  Be sure I will follow up with results, pictures and tales from the sales.  For now, I’ll keep it simple with the sales stats and story.

 

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Selected Summer Sales

Hip 290 was a million dollar baby! Yearling filly by Medaglia d'Oro. Her dam is Hung the Moon.
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Hip 295 , a filly to Maclean's Music and Inner Groove.
Hip 295 , a filly to Maclean’s Music and Inner Groove.

These summer sales were certainly sizzling.  This week Fasig-Tipton in Lexington, KY hosted two sales.  On back-to-back hot and humid days the Summer Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale and The July Sale of Selected Yearlings took place.  I attended the later and I saw plenty of fantastic bloodstock.

 

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