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$250,000 Practical Joke Colt Wednesday’s High Seller At Keeneland September Sale

Keeneland had a strong day of trade during Wednesday's ninth session of the September Yearling Sale, led by a colt by Practical Joke from the family of Group 1 winner X Y Jet sold for $250,000 to CJ Thoroughbreds.

Out of Jetbird, a winning daughter of Wildcat Heir, he was consigned by Bluewater Sales, agent.

Results for the day increased across the board as 298 yearlings sold through the ring for $13,430,200, up 3.56 percent from last year's gross of $12,969,000 when 329 horses sold. Average price of $45,068 increased 14.33 percent over $39,419 in 2022, while the median rose 11.67 percent from $30,000 to $33,500.

Cumulative figures are comparable to the corresponding period in 2022. A total of 2,103 yearlings have sold for $379,373,200, down 2.63 percent from last year's $389,605,000 for 2,180 horses. Average price of $180,396 is up slightly from $178,718, while the median of $100,000 is equal to last year.

In other sales Wednesday, a filly by Ghostzapper sold to Donato Lanni, agent, for $240,000. Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa, agent, consigned the filly, who is from the family of champion Rags to Riches and 2023 Belmont and Grade 1 Travers winner Arcangelo. Her dam is Everything, by Curlin.

Two horses brought $200,000 each.

SBM Training and Sales purchased a colt by Caravaggio from the family of Grade 2 winner Vertical Oak for the amount. Consigned by Gainesway, agent, he is out of the Elusive Quality mare Becky's Best.

Gainesway was the session's leading consignor with sales of $1,296,000 for 21 yearlings.

Peter Deutsch spent $200,000 on a filly from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Promises Fulfilled out of stakes winner Dynazaper, by Ghostzapper. From the family of Grade 1 winner Very Subtle and Grade 2 winner Broad Dynamite, she was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent for WinStar Farm Bred & Raised.

Two yearlings sold for $190,000 apiece.

Kenneth McPeek, agent, and Baccari Bloodstock paid the amount for a colt by Broken Vow who is from the family of Grade 1 winners Dream of Summer, Creative Cause and Vexatious along with Grade 2 winner Destin. He is out of the winning Lion Heart mare Wishcraft.

Purchasing eight yearlings for $695,000, Kenneth McPeek, agent, led buyers during the session.

A colt by Army Mule out of Zooey, by Exchange Rate, sold for $190,000 to Grassroots Training & Sales. From the family of Grade 1 winner Nany's Sweep, he was consigned by Mulholland Farm.

The September Sale resumes Thursday at 10 a.m. ET runs through Saturday.

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Wanamaker’s 2023 September Sale Catalog Online

The catalog for the Wanamaker's September Sale is now available for viewing, with 22 hips set to be offered on Thursday, Sept. 28.

The sale features a wide range of offerings that suit a multitude of buyers, with weanlings, yearlings, horses of racing age, broodmare prospects, open broodmares, and mares in-foal comprising the catalog.

Bidding will open at 8 a.m. ET, with the first listing set to close at 5 p.m. Subsequent listings will close in three-minute increments. Detailed information on the buying process can be found at wanamakers.com/buy.

Highlights of the catalog include:

– A yearling colt out of the multiple stakes-winning mare, Amaranth. He is by Daredevil, whose first crop since returning to the United States has been very well received.

– Lass, a 5-year-old broodmare offered in-foal to first-year New York stallion, Mind Control. She is a half-sister to stakes placed, Reigning Chick.

– Map Em Up, a 5-year-old broodmare prospect by Liam's Map. She is a half-sister to the producer of multiple stakes-winning juvenile, Amidst Waves.

– Widget, a 10-year-old broodmare currently in-foal to Higher Power. She is the dam of winners and comes from the direct family of Grade 1 winner and producer, Zoftig.

– Afleet Arlene, a 4-year-old daughter of Afleet Alex offered as a broodmare prospect. Afleet Alex is the damsire of top dirt performers like Practical Move, Sir Winston, and Bourbonic.

– May Shares, an open twelve-year-old broodmare who was a stakes winner during her racing career. She is the dam of Feathers Road, a multi-race winner on the NYRA circuit with earnings of $224,503.

For more information on those being offered in the 2023 Wanamaker's September Sale, see wanamakers.com. Prospective buyers may browse the website to view pedigrees, pictures, and videos of each hip offered. In-person inspections may be scheduled by contacting sellers with the information provided in the catalog.

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Bloodlines Presented By Walmac Farm: All Lines Lead To Tapit Among Weekend’s Juvenile Graded Winners

Tapit, the near-white son of Pulpit (by A.P. Indy), reaffirmed his position as one of the most significant sires and pervasively important grandsires in contemporary breeding with the results of racing for 2-year-olds over the weekend. The three-time leading national sire figured closely in the pedigrees of juvenile graded stakes winners V V's Dream at Churchill Downs and Carson's Run at Woodbine.

In the Grade 3 Pocahontas Stakes at Churchill Downs on Sept. 16, the gray filly V V's Dream became the first stakes winner for her freshman sire Mitole (Eskendereya), who has a dozen winners to date from a first crop of 159 registered foals. Forty-eight of those have started, and their earnings of $979,847 place him second on the current list of leading freshmen sires.

Like Mitole, four of the five leaders stand at Spendthrift Farm: the list leader Maximus Mischief (Into Mischief; 19 winners), Mitole, Omaha Beach (War Front; 11 winners), and Vino Rosso (Curlin; 10 winners). Only third-place Flameaway (Scat Daddy; 12 winners) stands elsewhere; he is located at historic Darby Dan Farm.

Each of the top five has one stakes winner; these are early days among the freshmen sires, but the pecking order for speed is beginning to take shape.

As a factor for speed, Mitole is no surprise. The Eclipse Award winner as champion sprinter of 2019, Mitole won the G1 Metropolitan Handicap, Breeders' Cup Sprint, Forego Handicap, and two other sprint stakes during his championship season.

Yet for all his speed, Mitole raced only once at two and was third. So, it required some faith in the horse to expect his offspring would be at their best so early. The appearance of V V's Dream is a revelation of ability. The filly slipped into another gear to take the lead in the Pocahontas, then was hand ridden through the stretch to win by 8 ¾ lengths, getting the mile in 1:36.45.

Bred in Kentucky by Mark Stansell, V V's Dream is out the Tapit mare Quay, a three-time winner at three and four who earned $213,526. With earnings at that level, it's surprising the mare didn't get black type herself, and she was fourth in Smart and Fancy Stakes at Saratoga and fifth in the Kentucky Downs Ladies Sprint. From three foals to race, all are winners.

V V's Dream is the mare's first stakes winner, and Quay's dam, the Tale of the Cat mare Skipper Tale, produced four winners, including stakes-placed Quaver (Blame), who is the dam of Kathleen O. (Upstart), the winner of the G2 Davona Dale and Gulfstream Park Oaks last season.

Skipper Tale is a full sister to G3 Railbird Stakes winner Ashley's Kitty, and they have three other stakes winning siblings: Heart Ashley (Lion Heart), winner of the G3 Cicada and Miss Preakness; Indianapolis (Medaglia d'Oro), winner of the San Pedro Stakes at Santa Anita; and Cupid (Tapit), winner of the G1 Gold Cup at Santa Anita, as well as the G2 Rebel Stakes, West Virginia Derby, and Indiana Derby, earning more than $1.7 million.

The handsome gray Cupid is the point of intersection between the two graded stakes winners. The son of Tapit is the sire of Carson's Run, who came with a bold move, “ten wide into the stretch,” according to the chart, to defeat his opposition in the G1 Summer Stakes at Woodbine.

The chestnut is the first runner and stakes winner for his dam, the Henny Hughes mare Hot N Hectic, who was a winner at four. The second dam, Wicked Wish (Gold Case), is a half-sister to a pair of hickory racehorses: Wishful Tomcat (Tactical Cat), winner of the G3 Discovery Handicap at Aqueduct and $716,843, and Uncle T Seven (Freud), who earned more than a half-million.

A winner of two races and $81,410, Wicked Wish produced the even more formidably tough Rated R Superstar (Kodiak Kowboy), who has won 13 races, retired earlier this year at age 10, and has earned more than $1.8 million, with a trio of G3 stakes victories.

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If Carson's Run can combine the longevity of his close relatives with his own obvious talent, he should be a colt who can provide sport of a high order.

Bred in Kentucky by Frankfort Park Farm, Carson's Run was sold by the breeders for $35,000 at the 2022 Keeneland January sale as a short yearling, then resold at the Fasig-Tipton July auction of select yearlings for $67,000, and finally at this year's OBS April sale of 2-year-olds in training, went through the sales ring for the third time. Earning a BreezeFig of 69 while working with a stride length of more than 25 feet, Carson's Run attracted the attention of serious buyers.

Consigned by Randy Miles, Carson's Run brought $170,000 from West Point Thoroughbreds and Steven Bouchey. The consignor said that Bouchey “buys a horse from me every year, and when the West Point guys were showing so much interest in this colt, I told them they ought to get together and buy this colt.

“I didn't know I was selling them a G1 winner,” Miles smiled and shrugged.

Indeed, the good ones can come from anywhere.

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$925,000 Twirling Candy Colt Sets Mark Tuesday At Keeneland September Sale

Pin Oak Stud on Tuesday acquired the most expensive horse sold during the eighth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale since 1999 when it paid $925,000 for a colt by Twirling Candy.

Consigned by Paramount Sales, agent, the colt is out of the winning First Defense mare Hiking and from the family of English highweight Logician, Group 1 winner Cityscape and Grade/Group 2 winners Didina (GB), Bated Breath and Equilateral. Paramount was the day's leading consignor with sales of $2,529,000 for 26 horses.

“He was a beautiful colt,” Pat Costello of Paramount said. “Everyone on the grounds was on him. We loved him from Day 1. We're thrilled for the buyer (Pin Oak Stud) and I'm delighted for the breeder (Lady Bamford), a lovely lady. He was a special colt.”

Pin Oak Stud spent $1.03 million for two horses to lead buyers.

On Tuesday, Keeneland sold 301 yearlings through the ring for $21,476,500, for an average of $71,350 and a median of $50,000. The gross is 1.39 percent higher than the eighth session in 2022, when 295 horses sold for $21,182,500. The average is nearly even with $71,805 in 2022, and the median is 9.09% below last year's $55,000.

Through eight sessions of the 12-day sale, a total of 1,805 yearlings have sold for $365,943,000, which is 2.84 percent lower than last year's corresponding period when 1,851 horses sold for $376,636,000. Average price of $202,739 is slightly below the $203,477 from 2022, while the median of $125,000 is 3.85 percent lower than $130,000 last year.

In other sales Tuesday, Rigney Racing acquired a colt by Ghostzapper for $330,000 and a colt by Liam's Map for $280,000. Four Star Sales, agent, consigned the son of Ghostzapper who is a half-brother to Grade 2 winner Lazy Daisy and is from the family of Grade 3 winner Valid Expectations. ELiTE, agent, consigned the son of Liam's Map who is out of the winning Colonel John mare Elusive Joni.

Belladonna Racing VI, Cherie DeVaux, agent, spent $275,000 for a filly by Not This Time and $240,000 for a colt by Twirling Candy. The filly, who was consigned by Paramount Sales, agent, is out of the Tapiture mare Mojo Mama and from the family of Grade/Group 1 winners A Phenomenon, Seattle Meteor and Con Te Partiro.

The colt, who was consigned by Warrendale Sales, agent, is from the family of Grade 3 winner Derby Kitten and stakes winner William's Kitten. He is out of Flush, a winning daughter of Violence.

HR Bloodstock paid $250,000 for a filly by Munnings from the family of Grade 1 winner Maracuja and Grade 2 winners Appealing Tale, Regally Appealing and Rockport Harbor. Out of Something New, by Medaglia d'Oro, she was consigned by Indian Creek, agent.

Four sessions remain in the September Sale, which continues Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET runs through Saturday.

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