Keeneland September Yearling Sale
An exhilarating day two at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale is what we saw with 194 yearlings being sold today. Kerri Radcliffe Bloodstock paid $950,000 for a colt from the final crop of top sire Scat Daddy to headline a day of robust trade during Tuesday’s second session. On Monday, the action was led by a $2.7 million Tapit filly purchased by Coolmore’s M.V. Magnier to be the most expensive yearling sold at public auction in North America this year and the highest-priced filly sold at the September Sale since 2008.
A total of 1203 yearlings cataloged during Week 1 before the sale takes a one-day hiatus (on Friday). 2017 saw a tremendous increase in the sale from the 607 yearlings sold during the three-day Book 1 that made up Week 1 of the 2016 auction. Till now 289 horses have been sold during the first two sessions for $102,396,000, for an average of $354,311 and a median of $255,000.
- Major buyers, so far, are Shadwell Estate Company (12 horses for gross $9,375,000), Godolphin (11 horses for gross $5,580,000) & M. V. Magnier (8 horses for gross $5,485,000)
- Major Sellers till now are Taylor Made Sales Agency (sold 41 horses for gross $17,740,000), Lanes End Farm (sold 31 horses for gross $9,335,000) and Gainesway (sold 17 horses for $7,660,000).
- Leading sire’s are Tapit (sold 14 horses for gross $13,950,000), War Front (sold 13 horses for gross $10,300,000) and Scat Daddy (sold 23 horses for gross $8,175,000)