The Keeneland April Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale will cap closing day of the Spring Meet Friday in Lexington. Held following the conclusion of the 10-race card, the sale begins at 6:30pm and features a catalog of 88 hips (with supplements accepted through Friday) set to sell during the one-session auction.
Notable hips to pass through the ring Friday include: Chandigarh (Speightstown) (hip 37, consigned by EliTE, agent), a 4-year-old gelding who in his second start won a maiden special weight race on the turf Apr. 13 at Tampa Bay Downs; Graffiti Writer (Into Mischief) (hip 58, consigned by EliTE, agent), a 3-year-old colt who is coming off a win in a maiden special weight race at Tampa Bay; Instant Coffee (Bolt d'Oro) (hip 77, consigned by Greenfield Farms), a 5-year-old MGSW who finished third in the GIII Michelob Ultra Challenger Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs in March in his most recent start; PA-bred 2-year-old Happyhappyboy (Runhappy) (hip 82, consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent), a last-out second in his maiden special weight debut at Keeneland behind impressive winner Pinky Finger (Army Mule); and Normandy Coast (Omaha Beach) (hip 80, consigned by Kenneally Racing, agent), a 3-year-old colt who won Keeneland's Palisades Stakes Apr. 6.
Supplements continued to come in Thursday with a pair of winning fillies joining the fold: Purloin (Arrogate) (hip 87, consigned by Grovendale Sales, agent), who is out of a half-sister to the undefeated Taraz (Into Mischief) and last week's $1.4m OBSAPR colt, and GSP Faith Understood (Catholic Boy) (hip 88, consigned by EliTE, agent).
Last year's sale was topped by a pair of runners both purchased by John Stewart's Resolute Racing for $450,000. Dana's Beauty (Not This Time), already a stakes winner at the time of sale, has since added four more stakes wins for Resolute while Cheval de Guerre (Caravaggio) was supplemented the morning of the sale after just missing in a maiden special weight at Keeneland and was last well off-the-board in last year's Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Last year, Keeneland sold 54 horses for $3,940,000, for an average of $72,963 and a median of $38,500. With sales of $1.544 million for 16 horses, ELiTE was the sale's leading consignor.
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