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I'd forgotten about that.  I knew she had some niggles.  Very hard at the elite level in OZ.  Only a handful of fillies or mares really dominate and you only need to be less than 1% off your game to not be in the first half dozen. Quintessa is by the maiden Cox Plate winner Shamus Award (by Snitzel) out of a High Chaparral mare so you'd expect her to perform better over further than 1400m.

Probably the 2nd option you put there out of A B or C. Eye Keep Smiling is the Best mare in Australia and can run 1.49 . The fast pace suited her , and she flashed home from the back to just miss. (needed 5 more metres and would of won. But the fast 26.4 3rd quarter is nothing new. For the last 3 years now since Leap To Fame and Don Hugo adopted this tactic to win Interdominions , Miracle Miles and that.  ( and you saw first hand at Cambridge in the slot race ) they just torch the opponents down the back straight and wander home in 28 seconds or so. It's just the way it is done these days in Open class Racing.  The Janitor is a very good horse. But when they 're going lickety Split 1.47 bat . a lot of good horses can get the speed wobbles lol. 🤣. He was trying to gallop in his gear a few times to go that hot pace I think. Just not used to it. Vinnie Knight used to gallop a lot of his horses flat out in training (with out hopples obviously)  , so they get used to going Fast lol. I saw him go six laps fast gallop, on the morning of a big race in Adelaide once. Stepped out and won the feature races that night no trouble at all lol. ( mind you races were 1.58 MR then , Not 1.48 😂😂)

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Was exactly a year ago Chief. What happened to her was after the great win in the Group 3 Cockram Stakes at Caulfield on August 31 last year.  she went to Flemington for the big Mares race, the LET's ELOPE Group 2 . But as Luck would have it a very Heavy Hailstorm Hit the course right in the middle of that race.  So she got smashed in the face and lost all confidence after that. Can't blame her . Even the tough old Standardbreds would have trouble getting over something like that. An Ice Blast right in the face. while travelling at 50kph. Big job to get your horse back after that. But the Te Akau team have done it !   congrats to them for the Big Win last Saturday 🏆. She's a great mare.   

by Jessica Martini, Christina Bossinakis and Jill Williams LEXINGTON, KY – Led by a $3.3-million son of Gun Runner, the Keeneland September Yearling Sale powered through a record-setting opening session Monday in Lexington. When the dust had settled after the first of two elite Book 1 sessions, 106 yearlings had sold for $69,240,000. The average was $653,208–the highest ever at a single September session–and the median was $537,500. With just 28 horses reported not sold, the buy-back rate was 20.90%. Those figures are ahead of last year's opening session, when 98 head grossed $54,795,000 for an average of $559,133 and a median of $450,000. They are also ahead of the 2024 total Book 1 average of $586,103 and median of $475,000. “It was a fantastic day,” said Keeneland President Shannon Arvin. “It's fun to talk to the auctioneers after and ask how it felt, because it looks different to them up there than it does to us watching from behind. And they said it was just so exciting, so electric, and there were so many new faces. It was really fun to see the pavilion so packed, the back ring so packed. Everywhere people were watching and enjoying and having a really great time. It was an incredible horse sale.” A total of 15 yearlings sold for seven figures during Monday's session, the highest to reach that threshold during a single session since 2006. Over the last several years, Keeneland has worked hard to make its boutique Book 1 sessions an event and, beyond the raw figures, the packed pavilion proved the success of concept. “For the last three or four days, the place has been packed,” said Coolmore's M.V. Magnier, who signed for two of the session's million-dollar yearlings, including the $3.3-million topper. “It's been very busy here. Keeneland does a great job. They have all the right people here and there are good horses here. The sale has only started, but it seems to be going pretty good.” John Sikura, whose Hill 'n' Dale consigned the session topper, agreed. “There was a buzz in the ring and there were more people than I've seen here in a decade or more,” Sikura said. “You could just see that everybody was here, they were excited.” Headley VanMeter | Keeneland photo Headley VanMeter's VanMeter Sales consigned the auction's first seven-figure yearling in the very first horse the horseman sent through the ring at a Keeneland September sale. “It feels really strong in here right now,” VanMeter said. “Even just walking through here to talk to [buyer] John Stewart and the Resolute team, I had to bump people out of the way. Someone told me the parking lot is packed to the brim. The atmosphere is great, the energy is great. Hopefully it carries on for the rest of the sale.” Keeneland's Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy said that while the market was competitive, he still sees it as sustainable. “There are not strong peaks and valleys,” Lacy said of Monday's action. “You can see the logic in the prices horses are bringing. Even if they are bringing a lot of money, it's logical. I think that's where, as we get into strong markets, we always ask, 'is this overheated?' This doesn't feel overheated. It feels like we are getting a strong, diverse group of buyers that are all looking to buy quality stock. And the breeders are bringing high-quality product to the market. So we are seeing a very high level of horse coming to us and the buyers are excited about what they are seeing.” Sikura echoed several people around the sales grounds to credit some of the strength of the market on the new tax code. “Not to talk politics, because it's not about one side or the other, but the bonus depreciation, the tax advantage, it can't be overstated what kind of stimulus that is for the horse business,” Sikura said. “Wealthy people who are taxed at source looking to write off 100% of their expenses–all of your expenses, all of your insurance, and then in the breeding business, all our stud fees. It is permanent, so we can plan for the future. It's a great stimulus on a high-risk speculative venture like this. Essentially half of your losses can be covered legitimately in an active tax code. It's a great incentive.” The Keeneland September sale continues with a second Book 1 session beginning Tuesday at 1 p.m. Book 2 sessions Wednesday and Thursday begin at 11 a.m. Following a dark day Friday, the auction continues through Sept. 20 with sessions beginning daily at 10 a.m. 'He's by the Right Horse': Brant, Coolmore Team for $3.3 Million Gun Runner Colt Peter Brant, standing out back alongside M.V. Magnier and the team from Coolmore, signed the ticket at a session-topping $3.3 million to acquire a colt by Gun Runner (hip 177) late in Monday's first session of the Keeneland September sale, then sauntered off to leave Magnier to talk to the press. “He's by Gun Runner and the lads all really liked him,” Magnier said, while adding there will be additional partners on the colt. “We bought his brother last year, the Curlin, and [trainer] Chad [Brown] actually likes him quite a bit. Hopefully, he will run soon enough.” Magnier and Brant's White Birch Farm paid $1.3 million for the son of Curlin at last year's September sale. The partners have already enjoyed success with Three Chimneys' Gun Runner, who is the sire of their champion and 'TDN Rising Star' Sierra Leone. Coolmore also stands the stallion's young son Gunite “We have Gunite at home at Ashford and he covered a big book of mares and he's very popular,” Magnier said. “And Gun Runner is just flying at the moment. He's by the right horse and everybody liked him.”       Of the colt's session-topping price, Magnier admitted, “It went higher than we expected, but Peter and our partners were all pretty keen on the horse. Let's hope we didn't make a mistake.” The $3.3-million yearling is out of Thoughfully (Tapit), who won the 2020 GII Adirdonack Stakes for Heider Family Stables. He was bred by Hill n' Dale Equine Holdings and Matt Dorman's Determined Stud and was consigned by Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa. “He was a very smooth, very good horse, by a great sire who had a timely Grade I winner [GI Del Mar Futurity winner Brant] yesterday,” said Hill 'n' Dale's John Sikura. “It's a prolific female family. And you hope for the best. All the major players assess and value these kind of horses and he made the list of important people.” Thoughtfully is a full-sister to stakes winner Signator and a half to graded winner Annual Report (Harlan's Holiday). Her granddam is Grade I winner Furlough (Easy Goer), a half-sister to Dancing Spree. Of the session-topping price tag, Sikura added, “After a million dollars, you're just watching and hoping. We never know where they are going to wind up. The good thing is I knew we were strong going in. I knew that there was multiple interest from strong people. After that, you're just a spectator in the process. You hope they all get brave and stay brave. It was a great result.” @JessMartiniTDN $2-Million Not This Time Filly to Heider A filly by Not This Time (hip 144), a third generation from Hinkle Farm, provided the operation a second seven-figure yearling out of multiple-stakes placed Stave (Ghostzapper) when selling for $2 million to Scott Heider Monday at Keeneland. “I really like the Hinkle family,” Heider said after doing his bidding alongside trainer Brendan Walsh and bloodstock agent David Lanigan. “They are good people and they raise very good horses. We looked at a lot of nice fillies in Book 1 and I told Brendan and Ted Durcan and David Lanigan, this is the one we want. I had no idea we would have to wrestle that hard to get it done. But it's a testament to the Hinkle family and what they raise on that farm. We had two stakes fillies we already raced off that page. So I thought that was as good a karma as we could get.” Hip 144, | Keeneland photo Hinkle Farm bred and campaigned the yearling's second dam, GII Allaire DuPont Distaff Stakes winner Buy the Barrel (E Dubai). That mare produced Stave, who hit the board in three stakes races in the farm's colors. Stave's second foal, Matenro Hour (Constitution), sold for $1.1 million to Yuichi Fukunaga at last year's September sale. The Heider family campaigned Hinkle Farm-bred multiple stakes winner Surf N Sand (Boston Harbor), a daughter of the yearling's third dam Affordable Price (Drouilly {Fr}), and bred Surf N Sand to get stakes winner Coco as in Chanel (Awesome Again) “She's been a favorite on the farm for a while,” Anne Archer Hinkle said of the yearling. “We knew coming up here that she would be our top filly in the sale. She checked all of the boxes. She's a beautiful mover, really great physical. She comes from a great family and Not This Time couldn't be any hotter. We felt good coming into the sale, especially when we got the final set of clean X-rays. She came up here and was incredibly professional the whole time.” Hinkle said the filly was shown over 300 times at the consignment's barn 18. “We use a software, TB Sales and we can go back to data from 2019, so for yearlings going back to 2019, we've never had a yearling viewed that many times,” she said. “And we've been fortunate to have some really great sales the past couple of years. Knowing that we had her out over 300 times, I thought there was a chance she could break out and she definitely exceeded our wildest dreams. We are thrilled she has a good home and hopefully she will continue to be a star for her new owners.” In a memorable few minutes at last year's Keeneland September sale, Hinkle Farm sold two million dollar yearlings. In addition to Stave's Constitution colt, the operation sold a filly by Curlin for $1.2 million. @JessMartiniTDN 'Icing on the Cake': Warrendale's Only Flightline Yearling Headed to Japan A quarter of the way through Monday's first session of Book 1, the top two colts on the leaderboard were both by Lane's End's first-crop yearling sire Flightline. Hip 45, a colt out of the multiple graded stakes producer Mira Alta (Curlin), sold for $1.7 million to Naohiro Sakaguchi and will be shipped to Japan, according to officials at Keeneland. The flaxen-maned chestnut was bred by Rock Ridge Thoroughbreds, LLC in Kentucky. “That was fantastic. We were very happy,” said Warrendale's Hunter Simms, who initially wasn't sure who had signed the ticket and shook the hands of several bidders to thank them for their efforts. “There were something like seven different interests on him, all from Japan.” Simms said the chestnut half-brother to GSW Promise Keeper (Constitution) and SW & GSP Wicked Awesome (Awesome Again) represented the only Flightline offering in Warrendale's consignment. Simms was impressed by the February foal's demeanor. Warrendale Sales's Kitty Taylor | Keeneland “This is the only one that we're selling at this sale. He was just so relaxed back there the whole time we were showing him. We showed him over 220 times over the last three days and he handled everything with class. He was just such a great individual to be around.” Rock Ridge purchased the $1.7-million colt's unraced dam at the 2015 Keeneland November sale for $200,000. Their property is located on the former ClassicStar property near Versailles, said Simms, who added: “The horse was raised by Codee Guffey at Rock Ridge and his uncle Kerry [Smith]. They do a great job. They raise a really good horse. “We've had good sales for them in the past. This is just icing on the cake for everything they put into it over the last few years. They've invested into a lot of mares and stud fees and everything else. I'm glad it paid off for them.” Much later in the sale, Sakaguchi added a second Flightline–this time a filly (hip 168) out of Taylor S (Medaglia d'Oro) for $1.5 million–to his purchases. As an owner, Sakaguchi's most accomplished runner to date is Poulsen (Into Mischief), a $925,000 OBS April grad and winner of three of his seven starts in Japan. He was most recently unplaced in the G3 Leopard Stakes Aug. 10.   ––JillWilliamsTDN       Not This Time Colt Scores $1.6m in Book 1 Opener With Monday's session already in full swing, Hip 66 lit up the board, bringing a cool $1.6 million from Windancer Farms, who was bidding online. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales, the Apr. 20 foal by Not This Time was bred by Richard Santulli's Colts Neck Stables. “Based upon the action [on him] we knew that he would sell for a lot of money,” said Santulli. “At that level, that's crazy. But he was a very nice colt.” Of the final price, the fourth-highest yearling of the session, Santulli added, “We knew he'd make a million, our reserve was set at $500,000. We felt [$500,000] at that price, we'd take home a racehorse [if he didn't sell]. ” The bay is produced by MSP Out Post (Silver Deputy), herself a $250,000 Keeneland September purchase in 2007. She is already responsible for SW and MGSP Jace's Road (Quality Road). The colt hails from the family of dual champion and MGISW Silverbulletday (Silver Deputy). “[The pedigree] goes back to Silverbulletday and Deputy Minister is in there,” Santulli added. “It is a nice page and a nice [physical].” A dozen yearlings by the Taylor Made Stallion brought $9.175 million, for an average of $764,583 and a median of 650,000. He was also represented by the session's second-highest price, who sold for $2 million to the Heider family. Asked about his overall impression of the sale early in the day, Santulli didn't mince words. “This sale is nuts,” he said. “Nice horses are going to bring money.”–CBossTDN Flightline Colt Gets VanMeter Sales Off To a Flyer Headley VanMeter, the youngest son of longtime consignor Tom VanMeter, started his inaugural Keeneland September sale consignment off with a bang when his VanMeter Sales sold a colt by Flightline (hip 10) for $1.5 million to John Stewart's Resolute Bloodstock Monday at Keeneland. The result also marked a remarkable first for breeder Randall Lowe, who was selling his first yearling after RNA'ing the colt's half-brothers future Grade I winner Golden Pal (Uncle Mo), for $325,000 in 2019, and Lieutenant General (Omaha Beach) for $385,000 in 2022. “This is the first yearling I've ever sold,” Lowe confirmed. “I was 0-for-four in the batter's box, including Golden Pal. To do this is a dream come true.” The yearling is out of Lowe's lone broodmare, the speedy Lady Shipman (Midshipman). “I wanted to see what was going on in the marketplace because the Flightlines have been so strong,” Lowe said of the decision to offer the colt at Keeneland. “I still have three other racehorses, one getting ready to start at Santa Anita, a half-sister to this horse. I thought for an individual person who doesn't take on partners, two or three horses is more than enough.” Bidding on the colt had inched over the million-dollar mark and was standing at $1.15 million when Stewart, in the reserved seating area at the back of the pavilion, jumped his bid up to $1.5 million. “When John Stewart went to $1.5 million, I started to cry,” Lowe admitted. Lowe did sell Lady Shipman's unraced 3-year-old daughter Luvwhatyoudo (Uncle Mo) for $250,000 during the Fasig-Tipton Digital March sale earlier this year and the mare herself RNA'd for $1.6 million with her Flightline colt in utero at the 2023 Fasig-Tipton November sale. Lowe has retained the mare's 2-year-old daughter Essential Lady (Essential Quality), who has been working at Del Mar. “I still own the mother and she is in foal to Not This time,” Lowe said. “I still own the sister. But it's nice to be recognized, especially by someone like John Stewart. He told me this was his number one colt in the auction.” Of his first Keeneland September offering, VanMeter said, “It's incredible, storybook. We had high expectations coming in here, but we didn't think he was going to do that. The colt was an absolute pro up here for the last four or five days. We are elated to get the sale started off this way.” The yearling was born and raised on the VanMeter family's Stockplace Farm. “Lady Shipman is on the farm and he was born and raised there and prepped there, so that makes this all the more special,” VanMeter said. Stewart, celebrating his latest acquisition, said he has been impressed by the offspring of Flightline he has seen. “We bought Queen Caroline [in foal to Flightline in November 2024],” Stewart said. “She has a nice Flightline filly and I bought a nice Flightline [colt for $875,000] up in Saratoga. So I really like the way those horses are looking, and I think he was the number one colt today.” @JessMartiniTDN Sharing is Caring for Whisper Hill as Both Buyers and Sellers Monday With a Breeders' Cup win under both her first and second dam, the chestnut filly cataloged as hip 115 was guaranteed to turn heads. Add supersire Tapit to the mix and it's no surprise she caught the eye of Mandy Pope, whose multiple graded winner Charge It (Tapit) stood his first season at Gainesway this year. “There's not going to be many more [Tapits],” said Todd Quast, advisor to Pope's Whisper Hill Farm, who bought the filly–both bred and consigned by Gainesway–for $1.5 million. “Mandy loves Tapit, so when you get that and you get this mare's side and you get the physical, we're very happy.” Tapit will be 25 next year. His four yearlings to sell Monday averaged $887,500 and included a $1-million filly (hip 118) out of Silver Colors (Mr. Greeley), who was also bred and consigned by Gainesway and went to Kate Sheehan, agent for Tranquility Lake Farm. Whisper Hill's newest acquisition is a daughter of 'TDN Rising Star' Sharing (Speightstown), who won the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf in 2019. Her dam, Shared Account (Pleasantly Perfect), captured the 2010 GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.       A number of the Whisper Hill horses are kept at Gainesway, so Quast was already familiar with the filly. “We had seen her a couple of times and Antony [Beck] wasn't going to sell her. Then, at the last minute he decided to put her in and we got very excited. We're very, very happy to have her. What a family and what a physical.” Quast added that the March filly stood out on every aspect. “From my standpoint, it was the physical, and I really liked her as an athlete. Mandy loved her pedigree. When you get those both together, you're going to pay a lot of money. We're very excited about the family. Super-nice filly.” Quast was busy Monday, with Whisper Hill both on the buying and selling end. Another Gainesway-consigned filly from the same family will also join their racing stable. Hip 108, a daughter of Good Magic out of Secret Jewel (Bernardini), went to Whisper Hill for $775,000. That filly's second dam produced Shared Account. While buying is the fun part, Quast said selling could be bittersweet. “It's very difficult,” he added. “It's sad to see them go. It's hard, so it's a very emotional, up-and-down time.” Whisper Hill is no stranger to the selling side, but it's not every day the operation parts with offspring of some of their most beloved mares. Monday they sold a Gun Runner colt (hip 128) out of multiple champion Songbird (Medaglia d'Oro) for $900,000 to Donato Lanni, agent for SF Bloodstock, Starlight, and Madaket, as well as a Flightline colt (hip 129) out of her unraced daughter, Song Gate (Arrogate), for $850,000 to Case Clay Thoroughbred Management. “To see the Songbird sell, the Song Gate…” trailed off Quast. “They sold very, very well, but it's hard to sell them. In this business, you have to do business. You have to sell some when you get the right price for them and you have to buy them–hopefully at the right price.” ––JillWilliamsTDN Sallusto Extends to $1.3m for Gun Runner Filly Roughly midway through the initial session, agent Thorostock's Nick Sallusto and Michelle Hemingway, bidding from the front of the main pavilion, withstood a stern barrage to land Hip 105, a filly by Gun Runner. When the dust had settled, the WinStar-bred yearling realized $1.3 million, the fourth highest-priced filly of Day 1. Hemingway handled the signing duties. “[The client who] bought [the filly] wants to enjoy racing but is also building a broodmare band,” explained Sallusto, who secured the filly on behalf of an undisclosed client. “She is really partial to Gun Runner. To try to find one that hit all the specifications, she really had to hit all the marks. We are just really excited that we were able to buy her.” Out of 5-year-old Scribbling Sarah (Freud), the May 5 foal is a half-sister to GI Ashland Stakes winner and GI Kentucky Oaks third Speech (Mr Speaker) in addition to Sam F. Davis Stakes winner John Hancock (Constitution). “It was hard to find something that we didn't like [about the filly],” underscored Sallusto. “I was the underbidder on Speech as a 2-year-old, so I watched her career and then [the dam] came back with John Hancock last year and it looks like he still has a bright future ahead of him.”       One would be hard-pressed to find someone more familiar with the seven-figure Gun Runner filly purchase than WinStar's Yearling Manager Donnie Preston. “It's a young pedigree,” Preston said moments after her exit from the ring. “We have always liked her and [buyers] liked her too. I'm pretty excited she brought $1.3 million. “She is really a standout. She has great movement–a big walk.” Explaining her conformational appeal, Preston explained, “I think everything was put together right on her. She had great balance and I loved her shoulder. Her hind end was that 'dinner plate' look at the top. I knew she'd go over well, but this well, I wasn't sure.” Pointing out another interesting connection between the filly's breeder and her illustrious sire, Preston explained,”Gun Runner was born on WinStar, not a lot of people know that. He went down to Florida and when he came back [to WinStar] I had him for about 2-3 months. I wouldn't say that she looked like him, but I think the quality of him is there.” On Monday, a total of 10 yearlings sired by Gun Runner sold for a gross of $10,260,000. Also responsible for the session's $3.3-million topper, yearlings by Gun Runner averaged $1,026,000. “It's a really strong market and we fought hard to get her,” said Sallusto of his sole purchase Monday. “We hope to see a lot out of her [on the track] and then raise her babies to race them too.”–CBossTDN Into Mischief Colt Brings $1.25m Midway Monday Never far from the leaderboard at the sales, Spendthrift sire Into Mischief again figured prominently when Hip 89 realized $1.25 million from the collective of Eclipse, Bridlewood, LaPenta and Warren. The Mar. 5 foal was consigned by his breeder, Mulholland Springs. Out of Reina Maria (Songandaprayer), herself a half-sister to GISW Secret Compass (Discreet Cat), the bay is a full sibling to Grade II winner and sire Maximus Mischief. “He is by Into Mischief and is a full brother to a proven stallion and a big strong physical,” said Bridlewood's George Isaacs. During Book 1's initial session, 11 yearlings by Into Mischief brought $8.125 million, averaging $738,636. The median was $700,000. “Into Mischief is king of the sires in North America as we know. We know horses like this are going to bring this kind of money. We've had good success with this partnership. Let's just hope we get lucky.” Bridlewood Farm, Eclipse Thoroughbreds and Bob LaPenta are among the partners in this season's GI Preakness Stakes and GI Haskell Stakes winner Journalism (Curlin). Asked about the principal attraction to the yearling, Isaacs explained, “Everybody wants to try to win the Kentucky Derby and play at the top level in the American Classics. That's why we're all here and that's why we're all banging heads [in bidding]. Looks like there is plenty of energy here. The cost of doing business with horses like this is high.” The colt represented the sole yearling on offer by Mulholland Springs on Monday and the consignor was very well represented. “The most beautiful thing about him you didn't even see, and that is his wonderful mind,” said Martha Jane Mulholland. “This horse is all class top to bottom and always has been. I believe he's the best horse I've raised in the last 10 years.” Reflecting on comparison's between the colt and his accomplished brother, Mulholland added, “I would say he's just about 100 pounds heavier. Just that much more man than his brother was at this time as a yearling. I'm just so excited about his prospects.”–CBossTDN The post ‘An Incredible Horse Sale’: $3.3-Million Gun Runner Colt Leads Keeneland September Opener appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article