Intraday Sales Archive

On behalf of his Blandford Bloodstock, agent Tom Goff went to $250,000 to acquire hip 3186, a filly by Songandaprayer--Forty Gran (El Gran Senor). Consigned by Anderson Farms on behalf of the filly's breeder Kinghaven Farms, the bay filly is out of a multiple stakes-placed mare which was purchased by Kinghaven for $245,000 at the 2001 Keeneland January sale. The Canadian-based operation has sold well from the mare in the past, having been represented by the mare's foal of 2006, Square Eddie (Smart Strike), who was a $200,000 graduate of last year's September...

Agent John Ferguson made his first big purchase of day three when he bought a Tiger Hill (Ire)--Darara (GB) colt for 500,000gns. The dam, a G1SW in France, has produced four stakes winners, including Hong Kong's Champion Older Horse of 2003-2004 Diaghilev (Ire). Three-year-old sibling Dar Re Mi (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}) is SW and is GSP in 2008. The colt was consigned by Lord and Lady Lloyd-Webber's Watership Down Stud. (Tattersalls Sirecam)

Lane's End Farm's Shadow Cast (m, 7, Smart Strike), who carried  Bill Farish's green and gold silks to victory in the GI Personal Ensign H. at Saratoga in 2005, was another of the standouts on the opening day of trade at the Keeneland November sale and was knocked down to John Ferguson for $2.3 million. Winner of nine of her 21 career starts and $923,751, the seven-year-old sold carrying a colt by champion Bernardini (A.P. Indy). Shadow Cast is already the dam of a yearling filly by A.P. Indy, which was purchased by ...

Island Fashion, who earned over $2 million during her racing career, sold for $950,000 to Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm. Out of the SW mare Danzigs Fashion (A Native Danzig), Island Fashion won five graded races during her career, including three Grade I events. At three, Island Fashion won the 2003 GI Alabama S. and GI La Brea S., then at four added the 2004 GI Santa Monica H. The Everest Stables homebred was also second against males in the 2004 GI Santa Anita H. The gray is believed to be...

An attractive chestnut filly by Giant's Causeway from the family of GI Breeders' Cup Classic hero Raven's Pass (Elusive Quality) was knocked down for $600,000 as the Fasig-Tipton Calder Sale, off a tad slowly, began to make solid headway Tuesday afternoon. Consigned by Ciaran Dunne's Wavertree Stables' agency, the daughter of Yard Art (Lasting Approval), a $325,000 buyback at last year's Keeneland September sale, was purchased by Davant Latham acting as agent for Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm.

The second foal out of MGSW Winning Belle (NZ) went James Bester Bloodstock for $1.4 million to be second best on day two of the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale. Lot 323, a son of Redoute's Choice, was consigned by Twin Palms Stud.

A half-brother to GI Kentucky Derby hero Mine That Bird (Birdstone), added  to the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale after his sibling's Classic score, brought a final bid of $485,000 at Timonium Monday. The dark bay was bought by Dogwood Stables. The Yonaguska colt was purchased by Paul Saylor for $100,000 as the OBS March sale, who decided to cash in on the catalgue update here. He was consigned by Cary Frommer, agent.

Hip 34, a colt from the first crop by Eclipse winner Bernardini (A.P. Indy) from the high-profile family of champion Gold Beauty (Mr. Prospector), brought a final bid of $1.2 million to top the early returns at FTSAUG Monday. Consigned by Eaton Sales, the bay was purchased by John Ferguson. The dam, SW Storm Beauty (Storm Cat), in foal to A.P. Indy, was acquired by the yearling's breeder Brushwood Stable for $2.2 million at KEENOV 2004. She foaled a filly in 2005 that sold for $675,000 as a KEESEP yearling; a...

A handsome chestnut son of A.P. Indy, out of GI Ashland S. heroine Madcap Escapade (Hennessy), brought $1 million from Demi O'Byrne. The 3/4-brother to GI Darley Debutante S. heroine Mi Sueno (Pulpit) was bred in Kentucky by Bruce Lunsford and Hill 'n' Dale. 

Hip 282, a filly by Pivotal (GB) out of Briolette (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), attracted a bid of 650,000gns from Shadwell Estate Company. Consigned by Barronstown Stud, the bay is out of a listed-winning half-sister to champion Pilsudski (Ire) (Polish Precedent).

Early in the second session at Keeneland November Wednesday, 12-year-old Surfside (Seattle Slew), a champion with four Grade I wins and more than $1.8 million in purses, was picked up for $500,000 by Gainesway from the Overbrook dispersal. But her three-year-old half-sister, the Belmont maiden winner Wild Poppy (El Prado {Ire}--Flanders, by Seeking the Gold), eclipsed her older sibling 29 hips later, going to Edwrd Evans for $950,000. Consigned by Eaton Sales as a racing/broodmare prospect, the grey was most recently fourth in a Keeneland allowance Oct. 28.