The Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale concluded its 12-session run Sunday in Lexington with 14 million-dollar mares and increases in gross and average, but overall figures closely in line with the auction's 2018 renewal. “The November Sale continued the trend of robust trade, evidenced by a clearance rate of nearly 80%, and healthy returns that [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – A bevy of sought-after racing prospects provided a lively ending to Tuesday's final Book 4 session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, with the last offering through the ring, the 2-year-old Liam's Legend (Liam's Map), bringing the day's highest price of $325,000. The recent Keeneland maiden winner was purchased by Khalid [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – Led by a pair of weanlings by Constitution, the first of two Book 5 sessions of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale opened with steady trade Monday in Lexington. For the second day in a row, bloodstock agent Renee Dailey purchased the session's highest-priced weanling, going to $150,000 for a son of [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The two-session Book 3 section of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale concluded Sunday with a day of lively bidding in Lexington. The book's highest price came early in Sunday's session when bloodstock agent Hubert Guy, bidding on behalf of John Gunther's Glennwood Farm, went to $325,000 to acquire the unraced broodmare [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – A pair of mares sold for matching co-session topping bids of $310,000 as the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale's Book 3 opened Saturday in Lexington. During the session, 266 head sold for $14,801,200. The average was $55,644, down 16.25% from last year's Book 3 opener and the median of $44,000 was down [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The auction action heads across town Wednesday with bidding on the first session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale getting underway at noon. Wednesday's select Book 1 session features 284 catalogued fillies, mares and weanlings. Consignors, who were busy showing horses on an overcast morning at the Keeneland sales grounds Tuesday, [...]

Blue Prize (Arg) (Pure Prize) will be one of two Breeders' Cup winners from championship weekend at Santa Anita to be offered at Tuesday's Fasig-Tipton November Sale. Following her victory in Saturday's GI Breeders' Cup Distaff, the 6-year-old mare arrived at the Fasig-Tipton sales grounds Sunday afternoon and she will be consigned to Tuesday's star-studded [...]

When Lil Indy (Anasheed) returns to the sales ring during the first session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale Nov. 6, it will be with a wealth of frequent flyer miles and one impressive sophomore standout added from the last time she visited that sales ring in 2018. Gary and Mary West had purchased [...]

As a kid growing up in Texas and spending his days at Lone Star Park, Geoff Nixon knew he wanted to one day own a racehorse of his own. Fast-forward a couple decades and Nixon doesn't just have the horse, he has the farm, too. Nixon and wife Brandi, in racing since 2014, purchased the [...]

Sole Volante (Karakontie {Jpn}) wasn't the only first-out winner in the fifth race at Gulfstream West Saturday. The 2-year-old gelding was also the first starter and winner for Andie Biancone. The 22-year-old Biancone is the daughter, and traveling assistant, of trainer Patrick Biancone. “It's super exciting,” Andie Biancone said after the race. “I'm at Keeneland, [...]

It was the rodeo that brought Billy Love to town, but he's staying in Ocala for the Thoroughbreds. The Pennsylvania native will offer his first consignment during the open session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's October Yearling Sale Wednesday with eight horses selling under his Love's Equine LLC banner. “I made my way down [...]

TIMONIUM, MD – The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale concluded two sessions of steady trade Tuesday in Timonium with figures largely in line with the auction's 2018 edition. Eleven yearlings sold for six figures, led by a ridgling by Honor Code who brought the auction's top price when selling for $190,000 to trainer Tim Hills [...]