PR Special Keeneland November: A Foundation Sire Line In Jeopardy

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The focus of the bloodstock community shifts across town for the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, and the Paulick Report has the reading material you need for the day in the PR Special.

Today's issue, like every edition of the PR Special, offers exclusive, detailed bloodstock content not yet seen on the rest of the website in a pdf format that's easy to read and print.

With the recent pensioning of champion and leading sire Tiznow, bloodstock editor Joe Nevills assesses the state of the foundation Godolphin Arabian sire line – one that runs through the great Man o' War – which is left without a clear heir in North America.

Spendthrift Farm's Coal Front is the subject of this issue's Stallion Spotlight, with Mark Toothaker explaining what makes the globetrotting son of Stay Thirsty an appealing prospect for breeders. In a time when major catalog updates can be found throughout the sale catalog, Bryce Burton of Muirfield Insurance discusses when and how to change a horse's insured value in Ask Your Insurer. Then, Nevills takes a look at the new weanling sires in the Keeneland November sale in First-Crop Sire Watch.

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MGISW Bast Sells to Spendthrift for $4.2M

Three-time Grade I winner Bast (Uncle Mo–Laffina, by Arch) was a hot-ticket item on a superstar-laden Fasig-Tipton November ‘Night of the Stars’ Sunday. Selling in foal to Justify as hip 245 for consignor Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency, the Bob Baffert pupil hammered for $4.2 million to Spendthrift Farm, who made their fourth seven-figure mare purchase of the night. Annexing a trio of top-level events in the Del Mar Debutante S., Chandelier S. and Starlet S. at two, Bast started her 3-year-old campaign with a score in the GII Santa Ynez S. before heading to the sidelines. Her dam sold for $1.9 million at the same auction a year ago.

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Brant Goes to $4.1M for Champion Uni at FTKNOV

Champion Uni (GB) (More Than Ready–Unaided, by Dansili {GB}) made another big splash during Fasig-Tipton November’s ‘Night of the Stars’ Sunday when selling for $4.1 million to Peter Brant. The chestnut, a stakes winner in both America and France as a sophomore, scored her first top-level triumph in the 2018 GI Matriarch S. and picked up tallies in the GI Breeders’ Cup Mile and GI First Lady S. last season to earn champion turf female honors. She defended her First Lady crown this fall and was fifth while attempting for back-to-back Mile victories Saturday at Keeneland. Selling as hip 228 for consignor ELiTE Sales, Uni banked over $2.6 million while winning 11 of her 22 career outings.

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Rushing Fall Keeps FTKNOV Fireworks Rolling, Hammers to Coolmore for $5.5M

Six-time Grade I winner Rushing Fall (More Than Ready–Autumnal, by Forestry) sparked a bidding war at Newtown Paddocks Sunday night and hammered to Jamie McCalmont, agent for M.V. Magnier, for $5.5 million at Fasig-Tipton November’s ‘Night of the Stars’. A ‘TDN Rising Star’, the e Five Racing Thoroughbreds colorbearer established herself with a GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf score in 2017 and added top-level conquests of the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup S., Jenny Wiley S. (twice), Just A Game S. and Diana S. over the past three seasons for Chad Brown. An 11-time winner in 15 career starts, she was a close runner-up in Saturday’s GI Maker’s Mark Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf and has banked over $2.8 million. She sold as hip 205 for consignor Indian Creek.

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