The Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale was held January 12-15 with 1,610 horses cataloged, of those offered, 948 sold for a $35,305,500 total with a $37,242 average (down 6.8 percent) and a $16,000 median (down 20 percent). The RNA rate was 25.2 percent, versus 19.6 percent in 2014 when 1,027 horses changed hands.
2008 Washington champion three-year-old filly Enumclaw Girl, by Katowice and out of a daughter of state champion Mahaska, sold for $65,000. The mare, whose first two foals are recent three-year-old winner Chester B, a gelding by Congrats, and a yearling filly by Bodemeister, was sold bred to Pioneerof the Nile on a May 10 cover.
Winner Karla’s Number, a 12-year-old daughter of Polish Numbers out of stakes winner and stakes producer Whow – a daughter of Washington horse of the year Hooplah – sold bred to Sidney’s Candy for $30,000.
Buyers
WTBOA member Rick Kessler purchased two broodmare prospects: $45,153 winner Sunandsea, a five-year-old daughter of Henny Hughes out of $106,951 stakes winner Cayman Sunset, the dam of Grade 3 stakes winner Sailors Sunset, $227,375 stakes winner Sailor’s Sister and stakes-placed Rival Islands; and $47,185 winner Get the Picture, a five-year-old mare by Giant’s Causeway and a half-sister to $200,511 stakes winner Megapixel and stakes-placed Fotografia.
Another California WTBOA member, Tom Grether Farms Inc., purchased four yearlings: a filly by Flower Alley from the immediate family of Grade 1 winner Twilight Ridge; a filly by Zensational out of a young producing daughter of $283,326 stakes winner Tassa; a colt by Spring At Last out of $42,170 winning and producing half-sister to Grade 2 winner Promenade Girl, $104,784 stakes winner Datts Awesome and three other stakes producers; and a Kodiak Kowboy colt from the immediate family of Grade 2 winners Mission Impazible ($1.2-million) and Forest Camp and Grade 3 winner Spanish Empire.
Other yearling buyers noted with a Pacific Northwest connection were Halvorson Bloodstock, David Israel, D & S Thoroughbreds, Jim Fergason, Tim Floyd and Jonathan Nance.
Halvorson signed for a Posse half-brother to $169,220 stakes winner Outright Buck and seven other winners.
David Israel and partners, through Tim McMurry’s Fleetwood Bloodstock, purchased a filly from the first crop of Maclean’s Music. Her dam, Spy Novel – a half-sister to Grade 1 winner and prominent sire Indian Charlie – has already produced four winners, including Federico Tesio Stakes winner Miner’s Escape.
Sisters Debbie and Shondra Van Horne (D & S Thoroughbreds) purchased a colt by Street Hero, the first foal out of a $35,225 earning daughter of Dixieland Band and $155,930 stakes winner Miss City Halo; and a colt by Scat Daddy, the first foal out of a Tiznow daughter of Canadian champion two-year-old filly Catch the Thrill.
Trainer Fergason purchased three yearlings: an Old Forester colt out of stakes winner and producer Nessarose for Art McFadden; a colt by Spring At Last out of $256,661 stakes winner and producer Platinee; and a Forestry colt, the first foal out of $149,633 stakes-placed Pink Candy.
Floyd signed for a Fort Prado colt out of a producing daughter of Indian Charlie; and a Bullet Train (GB) colt, the first foal out of 11-race winner and $97,206 earner Shirley Jean.
Nance purchased a Shakespeare colt out of a young $42,525 winning daughter of Canadian champion juvenile filly Brusque.
