“We were prepared [for the $250,000 price] because of the entire package,” said CJ Thoroughbred's Corey Johnson. “We felt between $200,000-$250,000 was what it was going to take to purchase him. We were expecting somewhere around that number.”

On Day 9, Ashford's Practical Joke was the second leading sire of the session, grossing $565,000 for five yearlings sold, with an average of $113,000. The leading sire of the session, Frosted, drew an aggregate of $617,000 for 11 sold, averaging $56,091.

“[Bloodstock advisor] Marette Farrell selected the horse for his fabulous physical and the potential there. We also believe that Practical Joke brings brilliance to the equation as an emerging top sire,” said Johnson. “Basically, we had a colt that was a really promising physical and by a brilliant sire that brings toughness to the equation.”

Johnson also pointed a little bit farther back on the page, with the appearance of several Argentine performers, including GSP Argentine mare Tripulina (Sings), a sister to Argentine GSW and GISP Tizna.

“I've also spent quite a bit of time in Argentina and watched that industry very closely and what I find is, those families bring soundness and durability to the pedigree,” he explained.

In foal to Bolt d'Oro, 13-year-old Jetbird realized $20,000 at Fasig-Tipton in February, while this May foal brought $27,000 as a short yearling from DKW Racing.

“Today, this was the only horse we were on,” Johnson affirmed. “I thought he is a physical with, just a little bit of vision, you could see where this would turn into a stunning racehorse. He may be just a touch immature but someone like Marette, who has done this for a long time, can see that blue sky ahead with these young horses. We may have gotten really lucky to find this kind of colt in Book 5.”

Through nine sessions, CJ Thoroughbreds, alone or in partnership, collected nine yearlings for a gross of $2.1 million. The operation's top priced purchase was a colt by Not This Time (Hip 594), who realized $535,000.

When asked about the market thus far, Johnson offered, “I think the sale has been really strong. I can't remember a Book 5 with that many people looking. The place was packed with quality buyers. I still see a lot of enthusiasm.”

Indicating that he was likely done on the buying side of things, Johnson said he would now put on his seller's cap for Thursday's session, offering Hip 3485, filly by Spun to Run, who is represented by his first yearlings in 2023. Out of Northern Netti (City Zip), the Feb. 19 foal is a half-sister to SW North County (Not This Time). She is consigned by agent Four Star Sales.

“We sell a horse [Thursday] and she had almost 30 looks today,” said Johnson, underscoring the strength of the current buying bench at Keeneland. “That is really a good sign. I'm very positive about the overall market. At times, it's been difficult to buy a good horse within our budget. But that's why you just have to work hard, have a great bloodstock advisor and hope some things fall your way.”

At the conclusion of Thursday session, gross figures for the first nine days came in at $379,373,200, dipping slightly from last year's blockbuster renewal which generated $389,605,000 over the same time frame. During Wednesday's session, 298 yearlings sold for $13,430,200, up 3.56% from 2022 when 329 sold for $12,969,000.

Both the session ($45,068; +14%) and cumulative ($180,396; 0.94%) averages rose, while cumulative median remained unchanged at $100,000 from last year's sale. This year's median of $33,500 was also up from $30,000 in 2022. From last year's corresponding day, RNAs rose to 60 (+66.67%) for Wednesday's session, up from 36 one year ago.

The 10th session of the sale resumes at 10 a.m. Thursday and runs through Saturday.

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The 6-year-old is co-owned by Eugene Joyce and will stand for a fee of $1,500. A limited number of lifetime breeding rights are also available.

Although Wyoming has a long history of horse racing and is the final resting place of the sport's first Triple Crown winner, Sir Barton, the state's live racing scene nearly disappeared until HHR was legalized a decade ago. Since then, horse racing has seen a resurgence with $5.2 million awarded to owners, breeders and stallion owners who participated in the Wyoming Breeders Awards Program in 2022.

“I was around Dennis' Moment early in his career and was really impressed with his brilliance, looks and class,” said Corey Johnsen of CJ Thoroughbreds. “It is an honor to own him now and be able to offer a stallion of his quality to breeders in Wyoming and the region. The Cheyenne location makes him accessible to mare owners in Colorado and Nebraska.”

Golden Creek Equine encompasses 100 acres near Cheyenne with another Wyoming location of 2,400 acres.

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“It was going to be my last season and I was looking to get into the real estate business, but real estate was horrible at the time,” he said. “People were filing for bankruptcy and interest rates were 20%. I didn't know what to do until I bought this racehorse. I found my new business and haven't looked back since.”

Renfro, a wide receiver who played for the Houston Oilers from 1978 to 1983 and for the Dallas Cowboys from 1984 to 1988, would go on to serve as a longtime executive at Lone Star Park and is currently the vice president of business development for the CJ Thoroughbreds ownership group. Lately, he has turned his attention to attracting new owners in his home state of Texas.

Texas racing has endured some tough times, but that changed prior to the 2020 racing season after the state government decided to funnel $25 million annually into the sport. Purses more than doubled at the state's top two Thoroughbred tracks, Sam Houston and Lone Star Park. Realizing that the state's breeding and racing industries had a story to tell, the Texas Thoroughbred Association launched a campaign this year to try to get new owners to invest in the sport. The campaign includes radio advertising, ads on social media platforms, a revamped website and seminars.

In Renfro, the Texas Thoroughbred Association could not have found a better person to be among those spearheading the campaign. In a football-mad state, he is still known as the sure-handed receiver who was named the Cowboys' Most Valuable Player in 1985 and whose 323 receptions accounted for 4,708 career receiving yards.

“Being  a professional athlete gives you opportunity in some areas to get in the door a lot easier than the average person,” he said. “It gives you a chance to have a microphone and talk to people. More so that if you are an Average Joe, people take an interest in you. I've understood that since I was a young man just starting out in football.”

Renfro, who estimates he has gotten 100 new owners into the sport since he stopped playing football, has the type of enthusiasm for racing that is infectious.

“Racing has allowed me to have a nice career after my athletic days were over,” he said. “I love to talk about the game and to promote it. I just think it is one of the most fantastic games in the world. You watch people who are 50, 60, 70 years old and when their horse turns for home they start cheering down the lane and start acting like little kids again with all the euphoria and excitement. People who are not involved are missing out on what could be a wonderful experience in their lives.”

CJ Thoroughbreds is the stable started by Corey Johnsen, the former co-owner of Kentucky Downs. Renfro worked with Johnsen when he was the president of Lone Star Park. CJ Thoroughbreds has 40 horses in training and is aiming to win at the highest levels of the sport.

“It's like being the GM of a franchise in pro sports,” Renfro said. “We are trying to win stakes races with our horses. If they can't, we'll probably move on and trade them. It's just like you would with the guy not catching enough passes or has been dropping a few. At the end of the season you may have to trade him and move on.”

It's been more than 33 years since Renfro last played in the NFL, but some things haven't changed. He's still competing, just now it's on the racetrack and not the gridiron.

“In the end,” he said, “what we're trying to do is win the game.”

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“First and foremost, she's named my daughter, Sally,” said Johnsen, who before becoming a full-time horseman was a noted racetrack operator who ran and owned part-interest in Lone Star Park and Kentucky Downs until those tracks were sold. “That's most important. Secondly, she is our first graded-stakes winner.”

Now Sally's Curlin returns off a 3 1/2-month layoff in Ellis Park's $125,000 RUNHAPPY Groupie Doll, part of Sunday's blockbuster five-stakes card at the RUNHAPPY Meet at Ellis Park that includes the $200,000 RUNHAPPY Ellis Park Derby. Sally's Curlin has raced at Ellis Park once before, winning an entry-level allowance race at the Groupie Doll's mile distance in 2019.

“She worked like the wind Saturday,” Johnsen said by phone from Texas. “We were looking forward to a strong 5-year-old campaign from Sally. And then she just kind of lost her focus in the spring and we gave her some time off. She's coming back from that break, and the word is that she's training as good as ever.”

Said trainer Dale Romans: “It's all positive with Sally's Curlin. We gave her a little freshener, and she came back better than ever. Hopefully she jumps up and runs to her old form.”

Corey Lanerie has the mount.

Sally's Curlin — a $160,000 Keeneland yearling by two-time Horse of the Year Curlin — was among the first horses purchased by CJ Thoroughbreds when Johnsen and his son, C.J., launched the syndicate. The mare is owned in partnership with Left Turn Racing and Casner Racing.

Sally's Curlin required five starts to win, doing so the first time she ran in blinkers. Aggressively placed in the Grade 3 Indiana Oaks off that victory, she beat one horse but rebounded to win at Ellis Park. That was immediately followed by a 9 1/4-length second-level allowance victory at Churchill Downs and the Grade 3 Chilukki Stakes that provided CJ Thoroughbreds its initial graded-stakes triumph. In fact, including her maiden win, Sally's Curlin is 4 for 4 at a mile on dirt.

Sally started her 4-year-old season with victory in Gulfstream Park's Grade 3 Hurricane Bertie at seven-eighths of a mile in mid-March. Then COVID hit and she didn't race until July, finishing fifth in Keeneland's Grade 1 Madison then third in Churchill Downs' delayed Grade 1 Derby City Distaff, both with exceedingly tough fields. Five disappointing races later, including her last two starts on grass, and it was time for a break and chance at a reset.

“Her 4-year-old year got messed up by COVID-19 and the race cancellations,” Johnsen said. “We had so many high hopes after that Hurricane Bertie effort, when she ran a super-good speed figure and the race of her life. And then we just couldn't run her at her favorite tracks and favorite distances for a long time. It was very disappointing. Having said that, she is Grade 1 stakes-placed, and she ran a great race that day at Churchill…. I'm hoping the old Sally will show up.”

Of course, the last time Sally ran at Ellis, it launched that her three-race win streak. Johnsen promised before the Ellis victory that if she won, he would donate $500 to the Kentuckiana Friends of V foundation that raises money for cancer research and programs. Bob Valvano and Mike Pratt happened to be broadcasting their sports-talk show on Louisville's ESPN 680 that day as part of a KFOV fund-raiser.

It turns out that KFOV is having a golf fundraiser on Monday in Louisville. Johnsen knows a good-luck charm when he experiences one, saying, “If Sally wins the Groupie Doll, we'll donate $1,000. One of the best races of her career was at Ellis Park. We're hoping that setting will create some more success for her. She is the ultimate one-turn mile horse, and that's perfect for her.”

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Disposing of the early speed horse, Kodama, coming out of the final turn, Miss Alacrity went on to an easy 2¾-lengths victory in the 83rd edition of the Colleen Stakes for 2-year-old fillies going five furlongs on the turf.

The unbeaten daughter of Munnings won her debut by 10 lengths on the dirt. She had no problems transitioning to the grass.

“This is a very nice filly,” said winning rider Paco Lopez. “She has a lot of talent. Wesley Ward had her ready. She was a little green but she is very talented. I can feel it. I was aggressive early because that's how she likes to run but I did not have to make the lead.

“I stayed close to (Kodama) because I know that filly has a lot of speed and I wanted to make sure she didn't get too far away. But this filly was too good. She can hook horses and still have plenty left. You can tell she's a good one.”

Sent off as the 11-10 favorite in the field of seven, Miss Alacrity stayed with the early pace set by Kodama and Tizplenty through an opening quarter in :21:20. The duel came down to Kodama and Miss Alacrity after an opening half in :44.74, at which time Kodama backed out.

Miss Alacrity covered the distance in :57.23 over a turf course listed as firm.

Sail By rallied from far back to get second, 2¼ lengths ahead of Tizplenty.

Owned by CJ Thoroughbreds, Miss Alacrity paid $4.20, $2.80, and $2.40. Sail by paid $4.60 and $3.20. Tizplenty paid $3.00 to show.

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The 7 1/2-furlong Filly and Mare Turf Preview for females three and older is one of two stakes for Florida-breds on the nine-race program, along with the $60,000 Juvenile Turf for 2-year-olds going one mile. First race post time is 12:35 p.m.

Picara, a 5-year-old, won the Filly and Mare Turf Preview for the first time in November 2018 to cap her sophomore season for previous trainer Todd Pletcher. The Turbo Compressor mare returned from a five-month break last August with Gulfstream West-based Jorge Delgado to rally from off the pace to defend her title by three-quarters of a length at odds of 28-1.

“She has been training very good, she's fresh, and she seems to love this track,” Delgado said. “She seems to love the grass here, I don't know why. Maybe it's hard and she likes that. She loves the surface.

“She has won this stakes twice and this will be the third time that she can win it. She won it last time at [big odds], and she's doing better this year,” he added. “She is more mature and more focused and having a good time right now.”

Picara has four wins from six lifetime starts at Gulfstream West, and was second after setting the pace in a seven-furlong optional claiming allowance Oct. 23, an off-the-turf race in what was her first start since finishing off the board in the one-mile In the Breeze Stakes July 5 at Gulfstream Park.

Starting with last year's Filly and Mare Turf Preview Picara had run in seven consecutive stakes, three coming at Gulfstream's Championship Meet last winter. She was third in the 1 1/16-mile Ginger Punch June 6.

“She has been running over her head a little bit. The stakes she ran in the beginning of the year were too tough for her, but she still showed up and she ran good. She had a break and when she came back and she had to run in the slop, and she ran a good second,” Delgado said. “We wanted to give her a preparation for this race and she couldn't run on the grass that day, but it still worked out pretty good for us because she ran good.

“She came back fresh, she gained weight and she was a different horse when she came back,” he added. “She's eating better, doing everything better and she has been training really, really well.”

Joe Bravo is named to ride Picara, who will be looking to surpass $200,000 in purse earnings, from Post 2 in an overflow field of 16 that includes main-track-only entrants Crumb Bun, R Prerogative, Sayonara Baby and Thisismytime.

CJ Thoroughbreds' Bienville Street was one of the favorites in last year's Filly and Mare Turf Preview, finishing fourth, beaten 3 1/2 lengths. The 5-year-old mare also has yet to win in 2020, coming with a neck of capturing the Monroe Stakes Sept. 7 at Gulfstream. She hasn't raced since running third in a one-mile optional claiming allowance Sept. 27.

First on the also-eligible list, Hallmarc Racing's homebred filly Centsless Drama is looking to break a string of three consecutive runner-up finishes, the last two in one-mile optional claiming allowance company Aug. 20 and Sept. 27 at Gulfstream.

Last out, Centsless Drama was 1 3/4 lengths behind Mo of the West, who also shows up in the Filly and Mare Turf Preview, and 3 1/4 lengths ahead of beaten favorite Dynatown in fifth. Both horses are trained by U.S. and Canadian Hall of Famer Mark Casse, who won his 3,000th career race Thursday at Gulfstream West.

“She's been second, second, second in really tough races. I ran her in an open allowance last time against two of Mark Casse's very nice, well-bred fillies,” trainer Carlos David said. “She's all right, and I think this definitely suits her running style. Every time she goes a mile and a sixteenth she gets beat because she's a front-runner, and she's very hard to rate. She just kind of takes the lead and she doesn't want to give it up.

“When she goes past a mile is when she struggles a little bit, but she should be able to handle the ground,” he added. “I think the distance is going to help, although there's a couple horses, sprinters, in there that are probably going to chase me around there which is not ideal, but I think she can do a good job.”

David won two stakes last weekend at Gulfstream West – the Millions Sprint Preview with Legal Deal and Juvenile Fillies Sprint with Shea D Summer.

“It was good,” he said. “I'm really happy when the horses run well for everybody. It's been kind of challenging with the weather and everything else this year.”

Hear My Prayer, winner of the Melody of Colors sprinting five furlongs on the Gulfstream turf March 21; multiple stakes-placed Starship Nala; Aizu, Amadora, High On Gin, Lookinlikeaqueen, Lovely Luvy and Sweet Hitch Hiker are also entered.

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In all, 237 yearlings sold Sunday for $11,516,500. The session average was $48,593 and the median was $40,000. The auction’s buy-back rate continued to fall, with 85 horses reported not sold Sunday for a buy-back rate of 26.4%.

During last year’s first Book 4 session, which was held on the eighth day of sale, 272 head grossed $15,448,700 for an average of $56,797 and a median of $41,000. The buy-back rate for the session was 27.85%.

The Keeneland September sale continues through Friday with sessions beginning daily at 10 a.m.

Ghostzapper Filly to CJ Thoroughbreds

Corey and C. J. Johnsen’s CJ Thoroughbreds struck late to secure a filly by Ghostzapper (hip 2342) for a session-topping $210,000 Sunday at Keeneland. Consigned by Peter O’Callaghan’s Woods Edge Farm, the yearling is out of multiple stakes winner Saxet Heights (Outflanker). Bred by SF Bloodstock, she was purchased by O’Callaghan for $130,000 at the 2019 Keeneland November sale.

“We’ve been on her since yesterday and she’s kind of one of those I kept falling in love more and more with her. So I’m glad it worked out,” said C. J. Johnsen.

Of the filly’s appeal, Johnsen said, “You can’t go wrong with Ghostzapper. And then the pedigree, the first three dams are very strong. When I first saw it, I thought, ‘An Outflanker mare?’ And I thought I had to do some research on Outflanker, but it turns out that, even though the sample size for the cross is small, it has produced two 2-year-old winners out of the three that have been on that cross. So the pedigree was just enough for us to go for it because physically, she is absolutely gorgeous.”

The filly will be trained by Wesley Ward.

CJ Thoroughbreds has purchased six yearlings-all fillies–at the September sale, led by a $335,000 daughter of War Front (hip 5) during the auction’s first session.

“We race them and then we sell them as broodmares when we retire them,” Johnsen said of the operation. “That’s our business plan. We buy only fillies with strong pedigrees by proven sires and then we sell them as broodmares. I think she is the 11th filly we’ve bought this year and we have one more to go.”

Johnsen said he has found the Keeneland marketplace this week to be unpredictable.

“It’s been strange. When we’ve thought we wouldn’t be able to afford a horse, we have been able to and then when we thought we could afford a horse, we were blown out of the water,” he said. “Day one, we bought three horses and didn’t think we’d be able to afford any of them. And we came away with all of them for much less than we thought. And then on day two, I don’t think we bought anything because we’d think, ‘Oh, this one is going to go for $250,000,’ and it goes for $450,000. So it’s been really unpredictable.”

More Music for Robison

When Jackie’s Warrior (Maclean’s Music) romped home in the Sept. 7 GI Runhappy Hopeful S. at Saratoga, he gave owners Kirk and Judy Robison their first Grade I winner in over two decades in the sport. The Robisons, who purchased the colt for $95,000 at last year’s Keeneland September sale, added another colt by Maclean’s Music to their roster when trainer Steve Asmussen signed the ticket on their behalf at $190,000 to acquire hip 2038 Sunday at Keeneland.

“Steve Asmussen is at the sale buying for me and he trains for me in the East,” Kirk Robison said from his home in El Paso Sunday afternoon. “He loves Maclean’s Music and we have the really good 2-year-old colt. Sometimes buyers go back to what horses worked for them before; the same stud, the same family and they have confidence. I think they also know what a certain stud should look like. And if they look like that horse, I think they like them even more.”

Hip 2038 is out of stakes-placed Yes Liz (Yes It’s True) and was consigned by the Vanlangendonck’s Summerfield on behalf of Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings.

“Stonestreet is going to stay in for half the colt,” Robison said. “Steve called me about an hour ago and said they’d like to stay in for half. I said go ahead and we got him. We’ve never had a partner, but who is better to partner with than Stonestreet?”

Robison purchased four yearlings during Sunday’s session of the September sale. In addition to hip 2038, he purchased a filly by More Than Ready (hip 2078) for $75,000, a filly by Kantharos (hip 2249) for $75,000, and a colt by Street Boss (hip 2043) for $37,000.

“We are pretty picky on the vetting. We don’t have to have a perfect vet, but we’ve got to have something that works,” Robison said of his buying goals. “The ones that have to have a chip removed right off the bat are not the kind I want. I want a horse that can get to the races early and show us what they can do.”

Robison, who owns a string of pizza restaurants in Texas, continued, “We are still shopping. We want horses who are going to be early and who are sound. Steve is a pretty good judge of that and he doesn’t get too carried away because he knows what price point I’m comfortable with. If he has to stretch a little bit, I let him do that. I don’t try to micromanage him because he has such a good track record.”

Asmussen is signing tickets for Robison in the name of Downstream Racing, a tribute to the next generation of racing fans in the family.

“Those are my grandchildren-they are getting old enough now I got a license for all of them in California this summer to go to the races at Del Mar, and then of course COVID hit and it’s limited,” Robison explained. “So Downstream Racing is our grandchildren and their ownership in horses now.”

Jackie’s Warrior, pointing for the Oct. 10 GI Champagne S. at Belmont Park, worked five furlongs at Saratoga Sunday in 1:02.91 (10/19).

“He looks fantastic, he’s happy and I trust [assistant trainer] Scott [Blasi] and Steve get him to race on time and I think he’ll run well,” Robison said

Of his colt’s impressive Hopeful victory, Robison said, “I had never had a Grade I winner until him. I’ve only been in a handful of Grade I races and never been lucky enough to win one, so I know how hard it is. I don’t care how much money you’re spending or what kind of mares you’re breeding, it’s hard to get a Grade I winner. So when you get one and they win so easily and he runs a faster seven-eighths than any other Hopeful has been run, well you get all of that wrapped together and he’s so sound, it’s amazing. He won at Churchill and he won twice at Saratoga, we think he’ll run well anywhere. Hopefully he’ll run well at Belmont.”

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Consigned by Woods Edge Farm, agent, the filly is out of stakes winner Saxet Heights, by Outflanker. She is a half-sister to stakes-placed winner Wolverette and from the family of Grade 3 winner Angelina County and stakes winners Holiday Ball and Ribbon Cane.

On Sunday, Keeneland sold 237 horses for $11,516,500, for an average of $48,593 and a median of $40,000. To date, 1,265 horses have grossed $212,267,200, for an average of $167,800 and a median of $100,000.

Two colts from the first crop of Unified and a son of Maclean's Music sold for $190,000 each.

Redwings purchased a son of Unified out of stakes winner Promise Me a Cat, by D'Wildcat. Consigned by Michael and Julia O'Quinn, agent, the colt is from the family of Grade 1 winner Private Persuasion and Grade 2 winner Sierra Sunset.

The second Unified colt to bring $190,000 is a half-brother to Canadian Grade 3 winner A. A. Azula's Arch and was purchased by Kenny McPeek, agent. The colt is out of the winning Unbridled's Song mare Song of Solomon, a full sister to multiple graded stakes winner Rockport Harbor. Legacy Bloodstock, agent for Two Hearts Farm II, consigned the colt.

Downstream Racing (Kirk Robinson) acquired the son of Maclean's Music, who was consigned by Summerfield, agent for Stonestreet Bred & Raised. Out of the stakes-placed Yes It's True mare Yes Liz, he is from the family of Grade 2 winner Chimes Band.

By spending $377,000 for four yearlings, Downstream was the session's leading buyer.

Two fillies sold for $170,000 apiece.

Walnut Stream Enterprises purchased the first, a daughter of Union Rags consigned by Runnymede Farm, agent. Out of Grade 2-placed winner Glory, by Tapit, she is from the family of such European highweights as Trusted Partner, Easy to Copy, Free Eagle, Search for a Song, Custom Cut and Sapphire.

John C. Oxley paid $170,000 for a filly from the first crop of Practical Joke consigned by Scott Mallory, agent. She is the first foal out of Tuvalu, by Smart Strike, and from the family of Grade 2 winner Sweet Vendetta.

Gainesway, agent, led consignors by selling 24 yearlings for $1.27 million.

The September Sale continues Monday and runs through Friday with all sessions beginning at 10 a.m.

The entire September Sale is being shown on the Watch TVG app, which is available on Amazon Fire, Roku and connected Apple TV devices. The Watch TVG App also features TVG, TVG2, Racebook, race track feeds and more.

The auction also is being is streamed live at Keeneland.com.

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