Four Star Sales

The saying in New Orleans goes something like, 'Laissez les bons temps rouler!'. And while Mardi Gras is over a month away and Lexington is some 700 miles from Louisiana, the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale kicks off Monday looking to keep the good times rolling off a record-setting 2025 sales season. The sale begins its two-day run at 10 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 12 and concludes Tuesday, Jan. 13 with a total of 1,097 horses catalogued across the two sessions. Riding a tsunami of momentum, Keeneland January...

The Gun Runner show continued to roll on at the Keeneland September sale when Coolmore's M.V. Magnier went to $1.55 million to acquire a son of the Three Chimneys stallion (hip 969) Thursday. The yearling, bred by Three Chimneys and consigned by Four Star Sales, is out of graded winner Twenty Carat (Into Mischief). His third dam, Silk n' Sapphire (Smart Strike), produced Grade I winner Shared Account, dam of another Grade I winner in Sharing. Yearlings by Gun Runner have attracted the top price at the first three days...

LEXINGTON, KY - Domestic and international shoppers galore were steadily making their way through the sales barns on a blissful Sunday morning in the Bluegrass--the quiet before the storm--a day before bidding opens for the 12-day Keeneland September Yearling Sale in Lexington. Following a competitive 2-year-old sales season this spring, the yearling auctions opened with strong demand across town in July and continued in upstate New York last month, leaving consignors optimistic of a strong market a day before the industry's bellwether yearling auction begins. "I think everybody on the...

George Connolly is set to join Four Star Sales as a Bloodstock Sales Associate, the company announced Wednesday. From County Carlow, Ireland, Connolly grew up on his family's Burgage Stud, a successful National Hunt stallion farm that has produced multiple Grade 1 winners. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Dublin and was selected for the Godolphin Flying Start program - graduating with distinction in June 2025 as the leading student of his class. Connolly's early career has spanned top trainers, sales companies and stud farms around...

Delahaye (Medaglia d'Oro), winner of this year's GIII Old Forester Mint Julep Stakes at Churchill Downs, is among 70 supplemental entries for the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale, the auction house announced Thursday. The sale, which also includes in-foal mares, broodmare prospects and newly turned yearlings, will take place in Lexington over the course of three sessions Jan. 13-15, 2025. In addition to her marquee success, Delahaye--a $550,000 purchase out of the 2021 Keeneland September Sale--also finished a close third in the GIII Matchmaker Stakes and in the...

Four horses have been supplemented to the upcoming Keeneland November sales. The two mares added to the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, to be offered during the auction's Nov. 5 Book 1 section are: Page Three (Dialed In), a 5-year-old half-sister to Timberlake who is in foal to that Grade I winner's sire Into Mischief and consigned by Four Star Sales; and Villanelle (Curlin), a stakes-placed 7-year-old who is carrying a foal from the first crop of champion Forte. She is consigned by Rosilyn Polan (Sunday Morning Farm), agent. Supplements...

Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm went to $2.2 million for Hip 169, a Gun Runner colt out SW & MGSP Princesa Carolina (Tapit), on Monday at the Keeneland September sale. The gray colt, foaled Apr. 17 and consigned by Four Star Sales, was bred by Three Chimneys Farm. The $2.2-million colt is a grandson of MGISW Pure Clan (Pure Prize), who Borges Torrealba Holdings purchased for $4.5 million at the 2012 Keeneland November sale.

A dark bay filly by first-crop yearling sire Maxfield brought $1 million Monday at the first session of the Keeneland September yearling sale. John Stewart's Resolute signed the ticket for Hip 53, who is out of the unraced French Passport (Elusive Quality) and a half-sibling to GI Alabama Stakes and GI Ogden Phipps Stakes winner Randomized (Nyquist) from the same family as MGISW Got Stormy (Get Stormy). Consigned by Four Star Sales, agent, the $1-million filly and May 11 foal was bred by Cove Springs in Kentucky.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY - Just five days removed from a record-smashing select sale, bidding returns to the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion Sunday evening for the first of two sessions of the Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearlings Sale in Saratoga Springs. The session, originally slated to start at 7 p.m., will now begin at 7:30 p.m. in deference to a pair of rescheduled graded races which will extend the race day at the track across the avenue. After a day and a half of rain in Saratoga, the sun was shining as...

Eleanora Kennedy's Black Forza (Complexity--Harlee Honey, by Harlan's Holiday), a £220,000 Goffs UK Breeze-Up graduate, shed maiden status at Fairyhouse last month and stepped forward to notch a landmark win for his Airdrie Stud-based freshman sire (by Maclean's Music) in Thursday's G2 Markel Richmond Stakes at Goodwood. A share in the stallion will be auctioned at Fasig-Tipton's August Sale next week. The Michael O'Callaghan trainee was steadied after the break and settled several lengths off the tempo in seventh through the early fractions of this six-furlong dash. Coming under pressure...

by Jessica Martini & Christina Bossinakis LEXINGTON, KY - The first of two Book 2 sessions of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale saw marked polarization, as the demand for the perceived quality remained strong, but fell off for the less desired offerings. "It's been a realistic, selective market today," said Keeneland Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy. "I think it was pretty evident throughout the day, people knew what they wanted and they were very specific about what they were willing to invest in. Speaking to a lot of...

Richard and Connie Snyder moved their commercial breeding operation from New Mexico to Kentucky nine years ago with the aim of competing at the highest levels of the game. The Snyders' Cove Springs Farm seems to have that goal well in its grasp after a memorable August which saw the operation represented by its first Grade I winner when Randomized (Nyquist) captured the GI Alabama S. and by a high-water mark in the sales ring when a colt by Not This Time brought $725,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale. Cove...