Keeneland Catalogues 3,075 Horses For Eight-Day November Breeding Stock Sale

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Keeneland has catalogued 3,075 horses for its upcoming November Breeding Stock Sale, the company announced Tuesday. The sale will run for eight days beginning Tuesday, Nov. 4 and running through Wednesday, Nov. 11, with the stand-alone November Horses of Racing Age Sale held the following day.

Click here for the Breeding Stock Sale catalog, which features exciting broodmare prospects along with proven mares in foal to prominent stallions and well-bred weanlings by established stallions and popular young sires.

Among the horses featured are the first mares in foal to such stallions as GI Preakness winner Seize the Grey, GI Belmont winner Dornoch and GI Breeders' Cup Mile winner More Than Looks along with the first weanlings by stallions including Horse of the Year Cody's Wish and GI Kentucky Derby winner Mage.

The November Breeding Stock Sale will open with a single-day Book 1 on Nov. 4 with a select group of 213 broodmares, broodmare prospects and weanlings. The session will begin at 2 p.m. and Keeneland will accept select supplements to Book 1 until the auction starts.

The November Sale catalog also includes these offerings:

• Dispersal of Bonne Chance Thoroughbreds–Gainesway is consigning seven broodmares and six weanlings. Hidden Brook is consigning 10 broodmares, one broodmare prospect and one weanling.
• Dispersal of Woodford Thoroughbreds (Phase 1)–Denali Stud is handling the sale of seven broodmares and one broodmare prospect. Taylor Made Sales Agency is consigning three racing or broodmare prospects.
• Previously announced curated reduction of bloodstock owned by Leonard and Jon Green's D.J. Stable. Taylor Made Sales Agency is consigning 31 broodmares, racing or broodmare prospects and one broodmare prospect. Hill 'n Dale at Xalapa is consigning one mare in foal to Curlin.

“With the November Breeding Stock Sale, we carry forward the tremendous momentum of our record September Yearling Sale,” Keeneland Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy said. “The September Sale underscored the power of this community when we stand together, and the quality of the offerings in November give us reason to be optimistic about the road ahead.”

Print catalogs for the November Breeding Stock Sale are scheduled to arrive in the mail the week of Oct. 13.

The catalog for the November Breeding Stock Sale includes 1,360 weanlings along with 1,715 broodmares and broodmare prospects; racing or broodmare prospects; and stallions and stallion prospects. The auction will present the following schedule:

Book 1 (Session 1)–Tuesday, Nov. 4. Session will begin at 2 p.m. with 213 horses in the catalog.

Every remaining session begins at 10 a.m.

Book 2 (Sessions 2-3)–Wednesday-Thursday, Nov. 5-6. A total of 790 horses are cataloged over the two days.

Book 3 (Sessions 4-5)–Friday-Saturday, Nov. 7-8. A total of 837 horses are cataloged over the two days.

Book 4 (Sessions 6-8)–Sunday-Tuesday, Nov. 9-11. A total of 1,235 horses are cataloged over the three days.

New this year, Keeneland has adjusted the format of Book 4 to include three sessions. Sessions 6 and 7, which comprise the regularly scheduled Book 4, will sell Sunday, Nov. 9 and Monday, Nov. 10. On Tuesday, Nov. 11, Sessions 8 and 9 will be combined into a single day of selling. Horses cataloged to Session 8 will sell in the morning and will be immediately followed by horses cataloged to Session 9. Consignors with horses in Session 9 will sell those horses in the afternoon of Session 8 with the morning hours available for showing.

“This adjustment means buyers have a full day of breeding stock to evaluate, rather than two shorter sessions at the close of the sale,” Keeneland Senior Director of Sales Operations Cormac Breathnach said. “We believe this format will maintain the dynamic marketplace for all participants.”

Broodmares cataloged to the November Breeding Stock Sale are in foal to 156 stallions, including American Pharoah, Bolt d'Oro, Candy Ride (Arg), City of Light, Constitution, Curlin, Flightline, Good Magic, Gun Runner, Hard Spun, Into Mischief, Justify, Liam's Map, Life Is Good, Maclean's Music, Maxfield, Medaglia d'Oro, McKinzie, Munnings, Not This Time, Nyquist, Omaha Beach, Practical Joke, Quality Road, Street Sense, Tapit, Twirling Candy, Vekoma and War Front.

Joining the aforementioned Seize the Grey, Dornoch and More Than Looks as stallions with their first in-foal mares in the catalog are such sires as Grade I winners Arabian Knight, Blazing Sevens, Bright Future, Casa Creed, Classic Causeway, Cogburn, Domestic Product, Gun Pilot, Kingsbarns, Muth, National Treasure, Newgate, Prince of Monaco, Shirl's Speight, Tapit Trice and Timberlake; and Grade II winner Charge It.

A total of 140 stallions have weanlings in the catalog, including the aforementioned Cody's Wish and Mage. Other stallions with first-crop weanlings include champions Elite Power, Forte and Up to the Mark; GI Preakness winner Rombauer; Belmont winner Arcangelo; and Grade I winners Annapolis, Arabian Lion, Country Grammer, Dr. Schivel, Gunite, Proxy, Taiba and Zandon; Grade II winner Pappacap; and Grade III winners Fulsome and Two Phil's.

They join additional sires of weanlings such as American Pharoah, Bolt d'Oro, Candy Ride (Arg), City of Light, Constitution, Curlin, Girvin, Good Magic, Gun Runner, Hard Spun, Into Mischief, Justify, Maclean's Music, Maxfield, McKinzie, Not This Time, Nyquist, Omaha Beach, Practical Joke, Quality Road, Tapit, Uncle Mo, Volatile, War Front and Yaupon.

Weanlings who are graduates of the November Breeding Stock Sale include 2025 Grade I winners Ag Bullet (Twirling Candy) and Battle of Rouge (Vino Rosso), Grade II winners led by Carter Stakes winner Crazy Mason (Coal Front), 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Nysos (Nyquist) and Grade III winners led by Sovereign Award-winning 3-year-old filly Caitlinhergrtness (Omaha Beach) and recent Oklahoma Derby winner Bracket Buster (Vekoma) amongst many others.

The catalog for Keeneland's November Horses of Racing Age Sale is scheduled to be online Wednesday, Oct. 15. Keeneland will accept approved supplements for the auction until the Nov. 12 sale day.

Keeneland sales are live-streamed here and as always, online and phone bidding is available.

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