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Triple Grade 1 winner Jack Christopher (Munnings) has been retired from racing and will stand at Coolmore America's Ashford Stud at a fee of $45,000.

“Jack Christopher was an exceptional talent,” said his trainer Chad Brown. “I've never had a dirt horse with such brilliance. He never disappointed us in a workout or a race and was just a pleasure to train.”

A flashy chestnut, like his sire Munnings, he went unbeaten around one turn scoring three times at the highest level over seven furlongs and a mile. On Travers day last year the word was all over the track that Jack Christopher was Chad Brown's best young prospect and he more than lived up to the hype. Putting on a show down the lane, he won going away by 8¾ lengths earning himself TDN Rising Star status in the process.

Stepped straight up to Grade 1 company for the Champagne Stakes he ran true to his odds as the 8-5 favorite proving much too good for Hopeful winner Gunite.

More explosive performances followed in his sophomore year in the G2 Pat Day Mile, the G1 Woody Stephens by 10 lengths and the G1 H Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes.

The best son of Munnings, whose fee has risen from $20,000 to $100,000 in the past five years, Jack Christopher is out of a half-sister to dual Grade 1 winner and proven Grade 1 sire Street Boss.

“We are delighted to have Jack Christopher now here at Ashford standing alongside his sire Munnings,” said Coolmore's Dermot Ryan. “He's a striking horse with great presence and a lovely temperament. Horses like him are what makes racing exciting to watch.”

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Bloom Racing Stable and Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC are sad to report that multiple graded stakes winner and successful New York stallion, Majestic City, was humanely euthanized on Nov. 8 due to worsening complications of laminitis.

A dazzling chestnut horse, Majestic City (2009 by City Zip out of It'schemistrybaby), was a precocious winner of his first three races including the Grade 3 Hollywood Juvenile Championship Stakes. He would go on to win or be placed in seven other stakes events including placings in two Grade 1s. He competed at the graded stakes level through his 6-year-old campaign.

Majestic City began his stud career in New York in 2016 and is the sire of four crops to race with progeny earnings of over $2 million. He was a leading sire of his class in New York for the past four years. Majestic City has three more crops to race.

Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC stallion manager, Bill Leak noted: “Majestic City will be sorely missed by myself and the entire IHDV team. He was a horse you could measure others against and only hope they can come close to his quality.”

Jeff Bloom, who campaigned Majestic City and bred many mares to him throughout the years, reflected back on Majestic City's life and added: “Majestic City was my first purchase and the foundation of Bloom Racing Stable. He had a larger-than-life personality and will be forever missed. He provided us with so many wonderful experiences throughout his career and I am thrilled that we still get to see his progeny on the racetrack carry so many of his fabulous characteristics.”

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Brockovich, a 3-year-old daughter of Honor Code in foal to Charlatan, sold for $450,000 to Jody Huckabay, agent, to record the highest price Thursday during the fourth session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. Lane's End, agent, consigned Brockovich, who is a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Spielberg.

Out of Miss Squeal, by Smart Strike, Brockovich is from the family of Grade 1 winners Dream Deal, Crème Fraiche, Clear Mandate, Strong Mandate and Romantic Vision. Half-brother Spielberg is cataloged to Keeneland's November Horses of Racing Age Sale on Nov. 17.

The momentum continued on Thursday, resulting in a healthy day of trade during which Keeneland sold 248 horses for $20,988,500, for an average of $84,631 and a median of $65,000. The total was 5.04 percent above the $19,981,500 from the fourth session of the 2021 sale when 252 horses sold. The average was 6.73 percent higher than the $79,292 last year, while the median remained the same.

For the entire sale, 795 horses have grossed $163,795,500, which was 11.72 percent above the $146,615,500 last year. The average of $206,032 was 17.76 above $174,959, and the median of $130,000 was 8.33 percent above $120,000.

Bay Shore Stable spent $380,000 for the top-priced weanling on Thursday, a daughter of Twirling Candy who is the first foal out of multiple stakes winner Ours to Run, by Half Ours. Consigned by Nursery Place, agent, the filly is from the family of Grade 3 winner Dancing with Ruth.

Mulholland Springs paid $375,000 for Bicameral, a 3-year-old filly by Constitution who was third in the Grade 1 TVG Del Mar Debutante. Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, agent, she is out of the Songandaprayer mare Hunble Song and from the family of Grade 3 winners Around the Cape and Intensive Command.

Two horses sold for $360,000 each.

Editor At Large (IRE), a 4-year-old winning, Grade 2-placed mare by Lope de Vega in foal to Raging Bull (FR), sold to Epona Bloodstock for the amount. She is out of What Say You, by Galileo (IRE), and from the family of Grade 1 winner Bolshoi Ballet (IRE) and Group 3 winner Southern France.

A weanling colt by Speightstown brought $360,000 from Sycamore Hall Farm/David Wade, agent. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, he is out of Tempers Rising, by Bayern, and from the family of Grade 3 winner Wolf Brigade.

Taylor Made Sales was the leading consignor with sales of $2,613,000 for 23 horses.

The leading buyer was Hunter Valley Farm, which acquired five horses for $835,000.

The November Sale resumes Friday and runs through Wednesday, Nov. 16, with all sessions beginning at 10 a.m. ET.

On Thursday, Nov. 17, Keeneland will present the November Horses of Racing Age Sale. The auction starts at noon.

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Keeneland has announced 10 supplements – headlined by recent Delta Mile winner Dreamer's Disease – to its November Horses of Racing Age Sale to be held Nov. 17. 

The dynamic online catalog for the single-session auction features Daily Racing Form and Equibase past performances along with Thoro-graph and Ragozin sheets, race replays and more. Click here for consolidated past performances and figures for cataloged horses.

Print catalogs and a supplemental catalog for the sale with Equibase past performances for the entrants are now available at Keeneland.

Horses will be available for inspection at Keeneland on Wednesday, Nov. 16. The auction will start the next day at noon.

Highlighting the latest supplements are:

 – Dreamer's Disease, a gate-to-wire winner of the $100,000 Delta Mile on Nov. 5 at Delta Downs to push his career earnings to more than $220,000. Bluewater Sales, agent, consigns the 4-year-old gelding by Laoban.

– Girl Afraid, a 2-year-old filly by Not This Time, was a 3½-length maiden winner at Churchill Downs on Nov. 2. Out of the winning Dominus mare Dominating Woman, Girl Afraid is from the family of Preakness winner Codex and stakes winner Dance the Slew. She is consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, as a racing or broodmare prospect.

– Outofnothingatall finished third in the Sorority Stakes at Monmouth Park in August and is entered in the My Trusty Cat Stakes on Friday at Delta Downs. The 2-year-old Super Saver filly, who is from the family of Canadian Horse of the Year Peaks and Valleys and Grade 3 winner Cryptograph, is consigned by Bluewater Sales, agent, as a racing or broodmare prospect.

– Park On the Nile was a debut winner at Churchill Downs and has earned more than $135,000 in two seasons of racing. A 3-year-old filly by Cairo Prince, Park On the Nile is from the family of Grade 2 winner Park Avenue Ball and stakes winner Beacon Hill Road. She is consigned by Hidden Brook, agent, as a racing or broodmare prospect.

 These supplements increase the total number of horses cataloged to the sale to 343.

Additional supplements will be considered until sale date.

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