2020 Keeneland September Sale

[KatieK101]

I’ve heard the deadline for submissions to the sale in August 3rd (tomorrow). Any idea when the catalogue will be posted?

[Flanders]

I’ve heard the deadline for submissions to the sale in August 3rd (tomorrow). Any idea when the catalogue will be posted?

Its usually a month out from the sale, so mid-August.

[KatieK101]

I’ve heard the deadline for submissions to the sale in August 3rd (tomorrow). Any idea when the catalogue will be posted?

Its usually a month out from the sale, so mid-August.

awesome, thanks!

[Horsebagger]

I’ve heard the deadline for submissions to the sale in August 3rd (tomorrow). Any idea when the catalogue will be posted?

Today's deadline for submissions is for the November Sale. The September Yearling Sale catalog should be released within a week or two. That's a guess because the world is on its own new Covid timeline in 2020. The past two months, Keeneland has been working to slot all the yearling submissions into appropriate books.

[StellarWind]

Catalogue is now available
http://flex.keeneland.com/saleindex/saleindex.html

[Diver52]

It is a measure of how boring this summer has been for those of us trying to stay home that I'm going to mark down the days on my calendar! I just hope TVG2 will show it.

[TBird]

It is a measure of how boring this summer has been for those of us trying to stay home that I'm going to mark down the days on my calendar! I just hope TVG2 will show it.

Keeneland live streams the entire sale on their website.

[Northport]

Coolmore is offering a couple nice ones... I think I'll take War Front X Coolmore please. Surprised they'd offer anything out of You'resothrilling's offspring.

Dark Angel X Brave Anna
Quality Road X Cuff
American Pharoah X Fabulous (dam is half to Giant's Causeway)
American Pharoah X Maryinsky (half to Peeping Fawn, Thewayyouare)
American Pharoah X Quarter Moon
American Pharoah X Rumplestiltskin (half to Tapestry)
American Pharoah X Silk and Scarlet
War Front X Shell House

Optimizer X Sweet Still could also be interesting. Dam has produced Kameko.... yet Optimizer is, well.... Optimizer.

The Stonestreet and Whisper Hill offerings will have to produce some of the sales toppers, no?

[Mylute]

I didn't know Coolmore sold produce at pre-racing sales.

[Diver52]

I just looked at Hip # 1 and was wondering "Who the heck is this damsire, A.P. Five Hundred?" On the other hand, the catalogue update shows that the dam produced Jackie's Warrior, who just won the Saratoga Special. Timely!

[Flanders]

Lady Eli's War Front colt is in the sale too.

[Mylute]

I love it when you look through pedigrees and sales catalogs and discover parents who you've never heard of.

[mariasmon]

I didn't know Coolmore sold produce at pre-racing sales.

All the time, usually fillies.

[Northport]

They seem to be selling a lot of the American Pharoahs that they have out of their ~2nd tier~ (young G2/G3 winning mares who don’t have foals on the track yet, older mares who haven’t produced much since a G1 winner in their early days).

It’s one way to get your young sire of the ground, especially if/when the resulting offspring land in the barns of Baffert and Brown... but it’s kind of wild that Coolmore may be the only operation in the world that can have foals from families like these and still have them be deemed not worth retaining.

Yeah yeah yeah, I know it’s a business, but I’d be surprised if selling a handful of yearlings each Autumn makes up 5% of Coolmore’s yearly profits.

[Flanders]

They seem to be selling a lot of the American Pharoahs that they have out of their ~2nd tier~ (young G2/G3 winning mares who don’t have foals on the track yet, older mares who haven’t produced much since a G1 winner in their early days).

It’s one way to get your young sire of the ground, especially if/when the resulting offspring land in the barns of Baffert and Brown... but it’s kind of wild that Coolmore may be the only operation in the world that can have foals from families like these and still have them be deemed not worth retaining.

Yeah yeah yeah, I know it’s a business, but I’d be surprised if selling a handful of yearlings each Autumn makes up 5% of Coolmore’s yearly profits.

I mean if they turn out good they'll just try to buy them back. But they have how many relatives to these horses? They don't need to keep them all.

[swale1984]

I noticed that Oatsee has an Into Mischief colt in the sale. My big question is : Why are we still seeing foals from 23 year old Oatsee? Hasn't she produced enough winners?

[CorridorZ75]

I noticed that Oatsee has an Into Mischief colt in the sale. My big question is : Why are we still seeing foals from 23 year old Oatsee? Hasn't she produced enough winners?

She has produced a foal every year since 2012 until this year so I don't mind that she has a yearling from 2019 since she was obviously in good reproductive health. However, I think after she was barren for this year, it might be time look into retirement, but they did breed her back this year.

[swale1984]

I noticed that Oatsee has an Into Mischief colt in the sale. My big question is : Why are we still seeing foals from 23 year old Oatsee? Hasn't she produced enough winners?

She has produced a foal every year since 2012 until this year so I don't mind that she has a yearling from 2019 since she was obviously in good reproductive health. However, I think after she was barren for this year, it might be time look into retirement, but they did breed her back this year.

I just don't want to see such a wonderful mare end up like Tizso did.

[CleverCharm]

I noticed that Oatsee has an Into Mischief colt in the sale. My big question is : Why are we still seeing foals from 23 year old Oatsee? Hasn't she produced enough winners?

Curious if there might be a reason (other than the fact that he's a May foal) that this colt isn't in book 1? I don't know a ton about sales.

[Flanders]

I noticed that Oatsee has an Into Mischief colt in the sale. My big question is : Why are we still seeing foals from 23 year old Oatsee? Hasn't she produced enough winners?

Curious if there might be a reason (other than the fact that he's a May foal) that this colt isn't in book 1? I don't know a ton about sales.

Could be a number of things. Maybe the owner had another horse they preferred to be in book 1, the colt could have something off, the mare hasn't produced high price yearlings so it kind of makes sense to have him in book 2. It could really work out in their favor. Maybe a couple of buyers wants a nicely bred Into Mischief colt and they don't get one from book 1, they then have this colt in book 2, which could push his sales price up.

There are million dollar yearlings in book 2. Not near as many as book one but it happens.