2017 Keeneland November Sale

Izvestia · Tue Nov 07, 2017 10:12 pm

Finally getting a chance to watch Stellar Wind. What a lovely mare she is, she's very elegant... except her funny eyes. She was very well-behaved considering they didn't have her in a lip chain. Very excited to see an AP foal from her!

neighhey · Wed Nov 08, 2017 12:45 pm

Balance just went for $390,000.

mariasmon · Wed Nov 08, 2017 12:48 pm

Al's Gal sold for $950k to Japanese connections.

mariasmon · Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:13 pm

neighhey wrote:Balance just went for $390,000.

RNA

mariasmon · Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:51 pm

Enchanted Rock (dam of Verrazano & El Padrino) went to Peter Brant (White Birch Farm) for $2 mil.

mariasmon · Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:58 pm

Jane Lyon (Summer Wind Farm) is on a spree at Keeneland. She bought Belle Watling (dam of War Story & Land Over Sea) for $1.05 mil, For Royalty (dam of Constellation), for $2.1 mil and Weekend Whim (dam of New Money Honey) yesterday for $1.4 mil.

Sparrow Castle · Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:33 pm

Twirl by Galileo-Butterfly Cove by Storm Cat; full to Misty for Me, Ballydoyle in foal to Curlin gets a final bid of $3.1M.

Natalma · Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:36 pm

mariasmon wrote:
neighhey wrote:Balance just went for $390,000.
RNA

Who owns her now?

I still remember when her first BEAUTIFUL foal by AP Indy was born. SIGH.

Sparrow Castle · Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:37 pm

Sparrow Castle wrote:Twirl by Galileo-Butterfly Cove by Storm Cat; full to Misty for Me, Ballydoyle in foal to Curlin gets a final bid of $3.1M.

RNA

mariasmon · Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:50 pm

Natalma wrote:
mariasmon wrote:
neighhey wrote:Balance just went for $390,000.
RNA
Who owns her now?

I still remember when her first BEAUTIFUL foal by AP Indy was born. SIGH.

Still the Amermans.

mariasmon · Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:51 pm

Sparrow Castle wrote:
Sparrow Castle wrote:Twirl by Galileo-Butterfly Cove by Storm Cat; full to Misty for Me, Ballydoyle in foal to Curlin gets a final bid of $3.1M.
RNA

That's absurd, if the live money was anywhere near the $3.1 mil RNA.

tachyon · Wed Nov 08, 2017 5:34 pm

BaroqueAgain1 wrote:163, Tammy the Torpedo, should be attractive to someone like Coolmore. A winning More Than Ready mare in foal to War Front? And she's really pretty.
$1,650,000.
ETA: She sold to Dr. Masatake Iida. Anyone familiar with who this is?

Dr. Masatake Iida is an owner-breeder in Japan.
http://www.chiyoda-farm.com/

He purchased Lady Joanne(USA) before.
He has some broodmares in the US to be bred to US stallions and now races 2yo filly Dream It Is(USA)(by Shackleford) in the US, too.

mariasmon · Wed Nov 08, 2017 5:49 pm

tachyon wrote:
BaroqueAgain1 wrote:163, Tammy the Torpedo, should be attractive to someone like Coolmore. A winning More Than Ready mare in foal to War Front? And she's really pretty.
$1,650,000.
ETA: She sold to Dr. Masatake Iida. Anyone familiar with who this is?
Dr. Masatake Iida is an owner-breeder in Japan.
http://www.chiyoda-farm.com/

He purchased Lady Joanne(USA) before.
He has some broodmares in the US to be bred to US stallions and now races 2yo filly Dream It Is(USA)(by Shackleford) in the US, too.

She is a nice mare. Looks exactly like More Than Ready. I think Dr. Iida got a good one.

tachyon · Wed Nov 08, 2017 6:07 pm

mariasmon wrote:
tachyon wrote:
BaroqueAgain1 wrote:163, Tammy the Torpedo, should be attractive to someone like Coolmore. A winning More Than Ready mare in foal to War Front? And she's really pretty.
$1,650,000.
ETA: She sold to Dr. Masatake Iida. Anyone familiar with who this is?
Dr. Masatake Iida is an owner-breeder in Japan.
http://www.chiyoda-farm.com/

He purchased Lady Joanne(USA) before.
He has some broodmares in the US to be bred to US stallions and now races 2yo filly Dream It Is(USA)(by Shackleford) in the US, too.
She is a nice mare. Looks exactly like More Than Ready. I think Dr. Iida got a good one.

Glad to hear that!!

TapitsGal · Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:29 pm

Airoforce only sold for 12k? To who? Or Was he an rna? And who bought long on value?

Sparrow Castle · Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:38 pm

TapitsGal wrote:Airoforce only sold for 12k? To who? Or Was he an rna? And who bought long on value?

Joe Nevills‏ @DRFNevills
Hip 2814, Airoforce, a G2W Colonel John colt, goes to Jeff Jeans of Texas for $12k. He could run again if he clears the vet's list. If not, he'll stand in a regional market such as Indiana or Louisiana. #KeeNov

Joe Nevills‏ @DRFNevills
Hip 2884A, Long on Value, a G3W Value Plus horse, will go to the barn of trainer @bradcoxracing after closing today's session of #KeeNov at $100k.

Miss Woodford · Wed Nov 15, 2017 12:29 am

Sparrow Castle wrote:
TapitsGal wrote:Airoforce only sold for 12k? To who? Or Was he an rna? And who bought long on value?
Joe Nevills‏ @DRFNevills
Hip 2814, Airoforce, a G2W Colonel John colt, goes to Jeff Jeans of Texas for $12k. He could run again if he clears the vet's list. If not, he'll stand in a regional market such as Indiana or Louisiana. #KeeNov

He's a really nice looking horse (trying not to be swayed by his dapples), I'm surprised he sold that low.

Sparrow Castle · Wed Nov 15, 2017 1:17 am

I watched some of the last part of Session 8 and was surprised that so many of these stallions and geldings sold for so little. I also was interested in what Ocean Knight would bring and am glad he was an OUT.

Morse Code is a 4 year old colt who comes from an excellent family. He's only had six starts and was in the money three times. He went for a claimer's price.

Joe Nevills‏ @DRFNevills
Hip 2861 Morse Code, a winning Tapit colt, half to Honor Code, Noble Tune, Lady Serena & Declarationofpeace, goes to David Meah as agent for a partnership for $32k. He'll go to the California barn of Richard Baltas and they'll try to boost his stallion credentials. #KeeNov

Wildcat Red is a MGSW Horse that they shipped to Meydan in 2017, which seemed to wipe out his year. I know he's tailed off but he earned over $1mil in his career.

Joe Nevills‏ @DRFNevills
Hip 2810, Wildcat Red, a G2W D'Wildcat horse, goes to @buck_pond_farm for $45k. Could run again, but long-term plan is to stand him at stud. #KeeNov

The results for Session 8:
http://flex.keeneland.com/summaries/summaries.html

Izvestia · Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:06 am

Airoforce is by Colonel John out of a Cuvee mare, but has a pretty solid female family. Horse was good at 2 and Highly regarded early on at 3, but He's a turf horse with more of a dirt pedigree. Dad was exported to Korea, so that doesn't really help.... but $12,000!?!?

I love Long On Value. He looks awesome.

Miss Woodford · Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:05 am

Sparrow Castle wrote:I watched some of the last part of Session 8 and was surprised that so many of these stallions and geldings sold for so little. I also was interested in what Ocean Knight would bring and am glad he was an OUT.

Homage, a half-brother to Congrats and Flatter by War Front was just $9k. Maybe being the last horse of the sale hurt his price.