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Three Horses Lead Keeneland November’s Fourth Session At $300,000

Three horses – Quality Heat, Sex Symbol and a weanling colt from the first crop of Mendelssohn – each sold for $300,000 to top results of Thursday's fourth session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Keeneland sold 227 horses for $13,153,000 on Thursday, for an average of $57,943 and a median of $42,000.

Cumulatively through four sessions of the 10-day auction, 748 horses grossed $115,681,000, for an average of $154,654 and a median of $90,000.

Bluewater Sales, agent, consigned Quality Heat and Sex Symbol.

Springbord Farm purchased Quality Heat, a stakes-placed 3-year-old filly by Quality Road. Cataloged as a racing or broodmare prospect, she is a full sister to Grade 2 winner Frank Conversation and from the family of Grade 1 winners Unusual Suspect and Golden Doc A. Her dam is the stakes-placed Unusual Heat mare Rushen Heat.

Springbord, which also paid $55,000 for a weanling filly by Mastery consigned by Bluewater, was the session's leading buyer, spending $355,000 for two horses.

Green Lantern Stables/Patrick Masson, agent, acquired Sex Symbol, a 3-year-old daughter of Uncle Mo carrying her first foal by City of Light. Out of Grade 1 winner Icon Project, Sex Symbol is a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Fashion Business and from the family of Grade 1 winner La Gueriere and Grade 2 winners and sires Lasting Approval and Munnings.

The $300,000 Mendelssohn weanling sold to Larry Best's OXO Equine. Four Star Sales, agent, consigned the colt, who is out of Abuntia, by Olmodavor. He is from the family of champion Susan's Girl, multiple Grade 1 winner Copelan and multiple Grade 2 winner St. Joe Bay.

Spanish Star, a 6-year-old daughter of Blame who is a half-sister to Belmont Stakes winner Sir Winston and is in foal to Arrogate, brought the day's second-highest price of $275,000 from Crestwood Farm, agent. Consigned by Woods Edge Farm, agent, she is out of Grade 3 winner La Gran Bailadora and from the family of Canadian champion Woolloomooloo.

West Bloodstock, agent for Repole Stables, paid $270,000 for Bambalina, a 4-year-old daughter of Bernardini and champion Perfect Sting. She is carrying her first foal by Street Sense. Consigned by Hidden Brook, agent, Bambalina is a half-sister to Grade 3 winner Smart Sting.

The session's leading consignor was Lane's End, agent, which sold 35 horses for $2,113,000.

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Yorkton to Crestwood

Multiple graded stakes winner Yorkton (Speightstown–Sunday Affair, by A.P. Indy) will take up stud duties at Pope McLean’s Crestwood Farm in 2021. Bred and raced by Chiefswood Stables and trained by Stuart Simon, the 6-year-old won the 2018 and 2019 renewals of the GIII Bold Venture S. He was second in the 2018 GII Nearctic S. and third in that year’s GIII Vigil S. In his final trip to the post, Yorkton was third in this year’s GII True North S. at Belmont Park. On the board in 14 of 30 starts, he retires with seven wins and earnings of $546,332.

Yorkton broke his maiden at two, and won stakes races at 3, 4, and 5. He won stakes from 6.5 furlongs to 1 mile, won or placed in 10 stakes, and his top Beyer was 103.

Chiefswood Stables Limited’s Robert Krembil said, “Yorkton comes from an elite family of Grade I winners, champions and sires. Yorkton showed superior athleticism and brilliant speed during his racing career, winning at distances from three quarters to a mile. Chiefswood Stables is committing a significant number of our well-bred broodmares to Yorkton and look forward to giving him every chance to succeed.”

“We are very excited to add Yorkton to our stallion roster,” said Marc McLean. “In addition to being an impressive racehorse from a top female family, Yorkton is an outstanding and correct physical with great muscling and size. We are also excited to offer a quality son of Speightstown, who continues to prove himself as a respected sire of sires. Chiefswood Stables is a top quality organization and they are deeply committed to maximizing Yorkton’s opportunities to succeed in the breeding shed and on the racetrack.”

Yorkton will stand his first year at stud for $5,000 LF, and breeders will be offered a $1-million breeders’ incentive program.

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Multiple Graded Winner Yorkton Retired To Crestwood Farm

Yorkton, a multiple graded stakes winner by top-class sire Speightstown, will enter stud at Pope McLean's Crestwood Farm in 2021. He will stand his first year at stud for $5,000 LF, and breeders will be offered a $1-million breeders' incentive program.

Bred and raced by Chiefswood Stables, Limited, Robert Krembil said, “Yorkton comes from an elite family of Grade 1 winners, champions and sires. Yorkton showed superior athleticism and brilliant speed during his racing career, winning at distances from [six furlongs] to a mile. Chiefswood Stables is committing a significant number of our well-bred broodmares to Yorkton and look forward to giving him every chance to succeed.”

“We are very excited to add Yorkton to our stallion roster” said Marc McLean. “In addition to being an impressive racehorse from a top female family, Yorkton is an outstanding and correct physical with great muscling and size. We are also excited to offer a quality son of Speightstown, who continues to prove himself as a respected sire of sires. Chiefswood Stables is a top quality organization and they are deeply committed to maximizing Yorkton's opportunities to succeed in the breeding shed and on the racetrack.”

Yorkton's trainer, Stuart Simon remarked, “Yorkton was a classy and versatile horse to train. He possessed brilliant speed which carried him to graded stakes wins and placings on three different surfaces.”

Yorkton displayed precocity, front running speed, durability and class. He broke his maiden at two, and won stakes races at three, four, and five. Yorkton's career included stakes victories from 6 1/2 furlongs and up to a mile, with a career top Beyer Speed Figure of 103. Yorkton won or placed in 10 stakes races, with earnings of $546,332.

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Firing Line Notches First Winner At Assiniboia Downs

Firing Line, a Grade 3 winner and the runner-up of the 2015 Kentucky Derby, was represented by his first winner at stud on Tuesday when Fire On Command won a maiden special weight race at Assiniboia Downs, BloodHorse reports.

The bay filly dueled for the lead throughout the five-furlong race, and wore down her challenger in the stretch to prevail by a length under jockey Kayla Pizarro. Fire On Command stopped the clock in 1:00.40 over a fast main track for trainer Shelley Brown, who co-owns the filly with Steve Holburn.

Tuesday's race was the fourth career start for Fire On Command. She debuted in stakes company, finishing second in the Debutante Stakes at Assiniboia, and her previous start before breaking her maiden was another runner-up effort in the Osiris Stakes.

Bred in Kentucky by Bill Frothinger, Fire on Command is out of the winning Purim mare Pursteena.

Firing Line, an 8-year-old Line of David horse, stands at Crestwood Farm in Lexington, Ky., for an advertised fee of $5,000.

The horse won two of eight starts during his on-track career for earnings of $976,000. His biggest victory came in the Grade 3 Sunland Derby, but his highest-profile effort is arguably his runner-up finish to eventual Triple Crown winner American Pharoah in the Kentucky Derby. He also finished second in the G1 Los Alamitos Futurity and the G3 Robert B. Lewis Stakes.

Firing Line is out of the Grade 1-placed Hold for Gold mare Sister Girl Blues. His extended family includes Kentucky Oaks winner Seaside Attraction, Canadian champion Key to the Moon, and Grade 1 winners Bowies Hero, Sharp Azteca, and Gorgeous.