Keeneland Yearling Sale Preview 2019

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KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE Monday, September 9-Sunday, September 22, 2019

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KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE

All set for the biggest show in town

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ELCOME to the daddy of all yearling sales. A whopping 4,644 were catalogued for the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, to be held from September 9 to 22.

This year the format of Books 1 and 2 have been tweaked again. In 2018 Book 1 was held over four days and comprised 989 hips, whereas this time it’s three days and 569 offerings.

Twelve months ago Book 2 was held

on the first Saturday and Sunday of the sale, but this time it’s the Friday and Saturday and, as with Book 1, has a trimmed-down number of yearlings for sale, at 730, against 826 in 2018.

While the Book 1 and Book 2 numbers have been reduced to give buyers more time to inspect potential purchases, the number of Keeneland graduates to have won Grade 1s this year is up on the same stage of 2018 – well over 30, and counting, of this year’s top-level contests have fallen

to Keeneland September Yearling horses.

Justify was the poster boy in 2018, but while another Triple Crown hero would have been asking too much, the Preakness (War Of Will) and Belmont (Sir Winston) were taken out

by Keeneland old boys this year, while both Pegasus World Cup contests fell to Keeneland alumni in City Of Light (dirt) and Bricks And Mortar (turf).

More recently, the Whitney Stakes was won by 2016 Keeneland buy

– and a fantastic one at that at $170,000 – McKinzie, who trainer Bob Baffert considers the best horse in the US, although Bricks And Mortars’ connections might have something to say about that.

Dreams of recruiting a top-flight flyer extend beyond the confines of North America, however, as Roaring Lion, Hawkbill and Mr Melody have shown in Europe and Japan within the past year, and the Keeneland sales grounds will again have a united

nations feel to it, with potential buyers having jetted in from all corners.

All that they, and you, need to know ahead of the frenzy are contained in these pages. Once the action is under way, racingpost.com/ bloodstock and the Racing Post newspaper will keep you informed.

Keeneland will have live coverage of the entire sale at keeneland.com.

Andrew Scutts, bloodstock managing editor Pictures: Keeneland

CONTENTS 3 The stallions showcased in 2019 and a look back at last year’s auction 4-5 Stellar September Yearling Sale graduates 6 Pegasus pair sourced from this sale who soared at Gulfstream Park in January 8-9 The rise and rise of Ashford Stud’s stallion sensation Uncle Mo 10-11 Hopes are high for Claiborne Farm’s first-crop yearling sire Runhappy 11 Book 1 hips who have previously passed through the sales ring 12 Adrian Regan and Fergus Galvin of Hunter Valley on their consigning behemoth 13-15 Stakes form of Book 1 hips’ siblings

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Racing Post Thursday, August 22, 2019

Pictures: KEENELAND

Last year’s $2.4 million sale-topping colt by War Front (1); a son of American Pharoah who made $2.2m (2); and $2.1m sealed the deal for a son of Medaglia D’Oro (3)

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Book 1 sires by number of hips

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Sire

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Total

American Pharoah

20

12

10

42

Curlin

11

15

15

41

Medaglia D’Oro

12

14

13

39

6

14

17

37

16

13

7

36

Into Mischief

9

12

12

33

War Front

9

14

8

31

13

5

11

29

Quality Road

7

7

13

27

Candy Ride

7

7

7

21

Uncle Mo Tapit

Pioneerof The Nile

Exciting young sires and big-hitters well represented

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SPENDING splurge 12 months ago resulted in no fewer than 26 yearlings at Book 1 selling for $1 million or more, with dollars and bids reminiscent of the Keeneland of a decade or so earlier, writes Andrew Scutts.

That was twice as many million-dollar-plus yearlings as sold in 2017, and it will be interesting to see what September 9-11 brings this year, with the Book 1 session dropping to three days from four.

As you would imagine from a sale that catalogued 2,332 males and 2,312 fillies, the 231 sires represented amount to a ‘who’s who’ of established and first-season stallions.

American Pharoah, Candy Ride, Curlin, Distorted Humor, Dubawi, Galileo, Giant’s Causeway, Into Mischief, Medaglia

D’Oro, No Nay Never, Oasis Dream, Pioneerof the Nile, Quality Road, Tapit, Uncle Mo and War Front are just a small selection of the more established sires – some of those more established than others, of course.

While from among the exciting crop of those with their first yearlings in the sale are the likes of Air Force Blue, California Chrome, Frosted, Nyquist, Runhappy, Speightster, The Gurkha and Vancouver.

In terms of numbers, American Pharoah, who stands at Coolmore, just shades catalogued Book 1 hips with 42 from Curlin (Hill ‘n’ Dale, 41) and Medaglia D’Oro (Darley, 39).

Nyquist: his first yearlings will be on offer at Keeneland

It was War Front who had the honour of being sire of last year’s sale-topper, the colt out of Smart Strike mare Streaming consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale who was knocked down to MV Magnier for $2.4m.

Named St James’s Square, and in training with Aidan O’Brien, he is yet to run.

War Front also hit the top-ten board with a filly out of Forestry mare Seeking Gabrielle consigned by Hinkle Farms, who fetched $1.75m to a bid from Godolphin.

American Pharoah also figured twice on last year’s leaderboard, his colt out of Indian Charlie mare Kindle consigned by Woods Edge Farm going for $2.2m to Godolphin, while the other yearling to break the $2m barrier 12 months ago was the Medaglia D’Oro colt out of Exotic Bloom consigned

by Taylor Made who took the eye of Phoenix Thoroughbreds, to the extent they went to $2.1m to secure him.

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Sex/breeding

Consignor

Price ($)

Buyer

458

c War Front-Streaming

Hill ‘n’ Dale

2,400,000

MV Magnier

91

c American Pharoah-Kindle

Woods Edge

2,200,000

Godolphin

899

c Medaglia D’Oro-Exotic Bloom

Taylor Made

2,100,000

Phoenix Thoroughbreds

211

c Curlin-Molly Morgan

Summerfield

1,800,000

OXO Equine Llc

389

f War Front-Seeking Gabrielle

Hinkle Farms

1,750,000

Godolphin

823

c Medaglia D’Oro-Dayatthespa

Gainesway

1,600,000

Godolphin

203

f Tapit-Miss Macy

Taylor Made

1,400,000

Don Alberto Corp.

383

c Uncle Mo-Secret

Bride Harrison

1,400,000

Mike Ryan

729

c American Pharoah-Bsharpsonata

Sierra Farm

1,400,000

OXO Equine Llc

388

c Empire Maker-Seeinsbelieven

VanMeter-Gentry

1,350,000

Phoenix Thoroughbreds

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KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE Beholder

Henny Hughes-Leslie’s Lady (Tricky Creek) A bid of $180,000 can get you an awful lot of bang for your buck, as B Wayne Hughes found out at the 2011 September Sale. The Spendthrift Farm owner parted with that sum for hip 962 from the Clarkland Farm draft, a bay filly by Henny Hughes.

That filly turned out to be none other than Beholder, the four-time champion and 11-time Grade 1 winner.

Sent into training with Richard Mandella, Beholder displayed an abundance of early talent that reached a peak with success in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, the first of her top-level victories.

The filly was kept in training until the end of her six-year-old season when she signed off with a fitting win in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, her second success in that particular contest, in which she got the better of another great mare in Songbird in a pulsating finish.

By the time Beholder retired to the paddocks she had amassed earnings of $6,156,600, a monumental haul given her sale price, and she had been crowned a champion at two, three, five and six.

Scat Daddy

Johannesburg-Love Style (Mr Prospector) Trainer Todd Pletcher signed for just one horse during the 2005 September Sale, but his purchase went on to leave an indelible mark on the very breed itself. A bid of $250,000 was required to secure the Johannesburg colt out of Love Style consigned by Hunter Valley Farm as hip 270, who went on to be known as Scat Daddy.

The colt ran in the colours of owner James Scatuorchio and wasted little time proving his talent, winning the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes and the Sanford Stakes during a productive two-year-old campaign.

He returned at three to add the Fountain of Youth Stakes and the Florida Derby to his top-class racing résumé. However, it was when Scat Daddy retired to Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in 2008 that things began to get really interesting.

He sired a galaxy of stars, including major talents including Caravaggio, Daddy Long Legs, Lady Aurelia and No Nay Never. He sadly passed away in late 2015 but not before he sired his magnum opus Justify, who etched his name into the history books when sweeping the 2018 Triple Crown.

With a burgeoning band of sire sons, Scat Daddy has left a legacy that looks set to run and run.

HIGH FIVE James Thomas with a quintet of racing royalty who were sourced from the Keeneland September Yearling Sale

Zenyatta

Street Cry-Vertigineux (Kris S) One of the most talented mares to ever set foot on a racetrack, with a record of 19 straight victories including 13 at the highest level, Jerry and Ann Moss needed a bid of just $60,000 to acquire Zenyatta from the 2005 September Sale.

Admittedly the daughter of Street Cry was suffering with a bout of ringworm at the time, which perhaps concealed her true majesty, but how other bidders must rue not being more forgiving when hip 703 entered the ring as part of the Winter Quarter Farm draft.

Sent into training with John Shirreffs, Zenyatta proved to be something out of the ordinary as she swept through four seasons in training, winning major prizes, including the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Classic, with her customary surge up the stretch.

The mighty mare was famously denied the perfect send off when she lost her unbeaten status by a fast-diminishing head as she attempted to retain her Breeders’ Cup Classic crown in 2010.

Despite that gut-wrenching reversal behind Blame, she retired having amassed a huge $7,304,580 in prize-money earnings, claimed countless awards and can now boast of a life-size statue at Santa Anita Park. She will always be remembered as one of the true queens of the sport of kings.

Racing Post Thursday, August 22, 2019

24 GROUP

EUROPE | ASIA | DUBAI

WINS

TO DATE IN 2019 INCLUDING

FOUR G1s Undefeated 2YO SISKIN, winner of the G1 KeenelandPhoenix S. at The Curragh Justify

Scat Daddy-Stage Magic (Ghostzapper) After the untimely passing of Scat Daddy in December 2015, demand for his progeny at the sales skyrocketed. During the 2016 September Yearling Sale the China Horse Club and Maverick Racing partnered at $500,000 to secure one of Scat Daddy’s sons out of the Ghostzapper mare Stage Magic. It proved to be money well spent.

That colt was, of course, Justify, who memorably swept the 2018 Triple Crown. The Bob Baffert-trained chestnut powerhouse not only made history by landing the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes, but also laid to rest the ‘Curse of Apollo’ by winning the Triple Crown despite not having raced at two.

Justify followed in the footsteps of the great Seattle Slew by maintaining an unbeaten record through a Triple Crown-winning run, and as the Belmont proved to be his final outing, he became the only undefeated Triple Crown winner in history.

Speculation was rife as to who would stand Justify during his breeding career long before he won the Belmont, with Coolmore being the name on almost everyone’s lips.

In September 2018, almost two years to the day since the horse went through the Keeneland ring, part-owner WinStar Farm confirmed the worst-kept secret in racing, that Justify would begin his stallion career at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud alongside the 12th winner of the Triple Crown, American Pharoah.

While spending $500,000 on a yearling is a sizeable risk, in this instance it paid off in spectacular fashion, as the deal to secure the breeding rights to Justify was reported in some quarters to be worth as much as $75 million.

MR MELODY defeated 17 horses winning the G1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen in Japan

Roaring Lion

Kitten’s Joy-Vionnet (Street Sense) When David Redvers and his assistant Hannah Wall began combing the Keeneland barns ahead of the 2016 September Sale, even their wildest dreams would have struggled to foretell the monster talent they were soon to find.

Having unearthed the son of Kitten’s Joy, who was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, from among the 4,479 hips that September, Redvers set out to secure the colt on behalf of Qatar Racing.

He has admitted to being “stunned” that the gavel came down in his favour at only $160,000, particularly as the average for that session was $319,730. It is a price that has repeatedly been made to look a bargain of incredibly rare proportions.

A top-class juvenile, Roaring Lion was shipped to Britain and sent to John Gosden and duly stormed through his first three races without tasting defeat, before losing out by just a neck to subsequent 2,000 Guineas winner Saxon Warrior in the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy.

He took a couple of runs to find his feet at three, but when he did the results were devastating. He went on to land four consecutive Group 1s, beginning with the Coral-Eclipse and taking in the Juddmonte International, the Irish Champion Stakes and the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, before retiring as a genuine champion.

He retired to Tweenhills Farm & Stud where he covered a glittering debut book of mares that looks set to ensure his influence won’t be confined to his own racing career.

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Thursday, August 22, 2019 racingpost.com

KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE Pictures: MICHAEL REAVES (GETTY IMAGES)

Bricks And Mortar (left) and City Of Light, both of whom were sold at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale in 2015, score Pegasus World Cup victories on turf and dirt at Gulfstream Park in January

Pegasus pair get 2019 off to a flyer

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ULFSTREAM PARK on January 26 this year provided the perfect springboard for Keeneland to showcase its September Yearling Sale graduates as the Pegasus World Cup dirt and turf races went the way of 2015 hips.

Turf winner Bricks And Mortar was a Book 1 buy four years ago, the son of Giant’s Causeway out of Beyond The Waves selling to Oaks Bluff Partners for $200,000, having been consigned by Stone Farm and bred by George Strawbridge.

Six days later, on the first day of Book 3, City Of Light, who followed Arrogate and

Gun Runner in winning the Pegasus World Cup on the dirt, went through the ring and did rather better.

Indeed, the son of Quality Road out of Paris Notion bred

by Noreen O’Neill’s Ann Marie Farm topped the session at $710,000, the successful bid coming from Mark Reid, managing partner for Walnut Green. It was the highest price paid at Book 3 for eight years.

“I liked everything about him,” Reid told reporters. “He’s a beautifully framed colt who we think will mature.”

Breeder O’Neill, for whom the colt was the farm’s highest-priced sale at auction, admitted: “I wasn’t expecting

that, we’re just dumbfounded.

The horse was beautiful. We handled him right. He did everything right, never got excited. I’m glad he went to a good home. I really can’t believe it, I’m just so happy.”

Those who bought City Of Light had reason to be happy too, for he would go on to secure six of his 11 starts, including four Grade 1s, highlighted by a dazzling five-and-three-quarter-length swansong success in the rain in Florida at the end of January. Running for Mr and Mrs William K Warren jnr, and trained by Michael McCarthy, he earned $5,662,600 in prize-money.

City Of Light headed off into

the sunset to begin a stallion career with Lane’s End, who were the vendors four years earlier when he sold at Keeneland.

As for Bricks And Mortar, he boasts an even better strike-rate having now won ten of his 12 races, four at Grade 1 level, and in contrast to City Of Light, Pegasus day at Gulfstream Park was where his career took off.

Trained by Chad Brown and owned by Klaravich Stables and William H Lawrence, Bricks And Mortar has blossomed, going on to win a Grade 2 at Fair Grounds, the Grade 1 Turf Classic at Churchill Downs, Grade 1 Manhattan Stakes at

Belmont Park and Grade 1 Arlington Million at Arlington Park.

He has already amassed $4,885,650 in earnings, with the promise of more to come, and caught the eye of Teruya Yoshida’s Shadai Farm, which has purchased the breeding rights.

Brown said after the Manhattan Stakes success: “[Bloodstock agent] Mike Ryan and I bought him as a yearling and Mike does all the scouting for us. Stonestreet broke the horse and they rehabbed him every time he had an injury.

“Ian Brennan and his staff have done a remarkable job.

There was one point I didn’t

TALE OF THE TAPE

City Of Light 5

Bricks And Mortar

Age Quality Road

Sire

Paris Notion

Dam

Dehere

Dam’s sire

5 Giant’s Causeway Beyond The Waves Ocean Crest

Michael McCarthy

Trainer

Chad Brown

Mr & Mrs William K Warren jnr

Owners

Klavarich Stables/William Lawrence

Ann Marie Farm

Breeder

George Strawbridge jnr

Keeneland Book 3, 20/9/15

Sold

Keeneland Book 1, 14/9/15

$710,000

Price

$200,000

Lane’s End

Vendor

Stone Farm

Buyer

Oaks Bluff Partners

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Runs

12

6

Wins

10

4

Grade 1 wins

4

$5,662,600

Earnings

$4,885,650

125

Best RPR

119

Walnut Green

think the horse would come back, and Ian saw it through with his staff to really put a lot of time in.”

The considerable time and effort that goes into producing, nurturing and then training the beautiful but delicate creatures that enthrall and entertain us can ultimately often not prove worthwhile.

But in the case of this year’s Pegasus pair, those who got them to Keeneland in September 2015, those who bought them at the sale, and those behind their subsequent racing careers can congratulate themselves on jobs exceedingly well done.

ANDREW SCUTTS

Racing Post Thursday, August 22, 2019

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Thursday, August 22, 2019 racingpost.com

KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE

‘He’s a big, good-looking individual, all quality and a pleasure to be around. He’s a very straightforward and uncomplicated horse’ Martin Stevens talks to Ashford Stud’s Dermot Ryan about star stallion Uncle Mo

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N IMPORTANT consideration when studying yearling sale catalogues is the ‘bounce factor’ among the sires represented; that is, who served improved books of mares in 2017 on the back of progeny success on the racecourse and now have better bred youngsters available to buy.

One striking example this year is Uncle Mo, the son of Indian Charlie who was American’s champion juvenile of 2010 after recording wide-margin victories in the Champagne Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, and came back at three to win the Kelso Handicap and be beaten just a nose in the King’s Bishop Stakes.

His debut two-year-olds hit the track in 2015, and he made a dazzling first impression by supplying three-time Grade 1 winner and champion juvenile Nyquist, Alcibiades heroine Gomo, Grade 3 scorer Sanford, and Forevamo, Lost Raven, Mo Tom and Uncle Brennie, all successful at Listed level.

Unsurprisingly, his fee at Ashford Stud in Kentucky was trebled to $75,000 for the 2016 covering season and the resultant foals, now aged two, include the North American maiden winners Dixie Mo, Memorable, Mo Mystery and Tick Tack Mo, as well as Serein, who has won on her sole start in Japan.

Even better was to come on

the racecourse as Uncle Mo’s first crop turned three. Nyquist landed the Florida Derby and became only the second horse to complete the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile-Kentucky Derby double; Outwork took the Wood Memorial; Laoban and Mokat struck at Grade 2 level; and Auntie Joy, Front Pocket Money and Unbridled Mo scored in Grade 3s.

The sire’s next generation of two-year-old runners, meanwhile, included the impressive Grade 2 Remsen Stakes winner Mo Town.

Uncle Mo’s fee was consequently doubled to $150,000 in 2017 and he covered a bumper book of 204 mares that year, and it is the resultant offspring who are coming up for auction as yearlings this year.

Five sold for $300,000 or more at Saratoga in August, headed by a filly out of dual Grade 1 winner Artemis Agrotera sold to White Birch Farm for $500,000 and a brother to Jim Dandy Stakes scorer Laoban knocked down to Lael Stable for $475,000. There is no shortage of choice of Uncle Mo yearlings at Keeneland in September, with 86 on offer.

Reflecting on Uncle Mo’s stallion career, Ashford Stud manager Dermot Ryan says: “Ever since his first crop hit the racetrack he’s been shattering records. The total earnings of his two-year-olds in his freshman year was an all-time record that no other sire has got close to in the meantime.

“Uncle Mo’s massive total of 25 stakes winners from his first crop is also an all-time record; he raced in the colours of Mike Repole, who got him off to a great start with his first Grade 1 winner in Outwork.

“It’s amazing to think that the horse is only 11 years old and has already sired six Grade 1 winners on dirt, turf and synthetic.”

Asked what he thinks the

secret of Uncle Mo’s success as a stallion is, Ryan replies: “He’s a big, good-looking individual, all quality and a pleasure to be around. He’s a very straightforward and uncomplicated horse, expertly handled by his groom Renee, who has looked after him since he came to Ashford.

“As well as being so good-looking, Uncle Mo was a seriously talented racehorse.

Breeders identified this and have been extremely supportive of him throughout his career.”

Ryan reports that Uncle Mo’s “phenomenal” book in 2017 included the brilliant racemare Beholder, Zenyatta’s Grade 1-winning half-sister Balance and Starlet Stakes scorer Diplomat Lady, as well as Miss Macy Sue, the dam of Liam’s Map and Not This Time, and Mythical Bride, the dam of Vino Rosso.

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INCE that stunning sophomore season in 2016, Uncle Mo’s offspring Dream Tree, Mo Town and Unbridled Mo have also won Grade 1 contests, and this year Epical, Life’s A Parlay, Miss Mo Mentum and Moon Colony have delivered Graded stakes victories.

In all, with his oldest crop aged six, the stallion is credited with 25 Pattern winners and another 25 Listed winners, with 84 stakes performers in total (up to mid-August). That has been achieved mainly by his first four crops who were bred off fees ranging from $25,000 to $35,000.

Strong support for Uncle Mo naturally continued to this year’s covering season, when he stood at $125,000. Among the mares he was sent were Circle Of Life and Dream Of Summer, Grade 1 winners themselves and dams of Grade 1 winners Circular Quay and Creative Cause; further Grade 1 scorers Heavenly Love

and Intangaroo; and the dams of Bricks And Mortar, Lines Of Battle, Stormy Liberal, Sweet Loretta and World Of Trouble.

With that huge draft of yearlings on offer at Keeneland, and agents, owners and trainers from all around the world set to converge on the sale on the lookout for future stars – not just on dirt but also on turf and synthetics in a multitude of jurisdictions – it is worth pointing out that Uncle Mo has already hinted strongly that he is an all-rounder when it comes to surface.

His progeny Auntie Joy, Epical, Forty Under, Hot Springs, Mokat, Moon Colony, Mo Town and Ultra Brat have all won Pattern contests on turf in America, while his shuttle trips to Coolmore in Australia have yielded the Group 2-winning sprinter Man From Uncle.

Uncle Mo has not had significant representation in Europe yet, but his pedigree contains plenty of comfort for anyone worrying, for whatever reason, that he would not be as effective on the other side of the Atlantic.

His sire Indian Charlie is by In Excess, winner of the King Charles II Stakes at Newmarket for Bill O’Gorman and later Grade 1-placed in the US. In Excess, in turn a son of Prix Morny and Poule d’Essai des Poulains victor Siberian Express, also sired the French Classic winner Musical Chimes.

For good measure, Uncle Mo’s half-sister by War Front, Could It Be Love, ran second in the Irish 1,000 Guineas last year, while damsire Arch was responsible for talented European turf performers such as Arch Swing, Les Arcs and Nyaleti.

Uncle Mo, below, and taking a stroll at Ashford Stud in Kentucky

There is, though, a good chance that European racegoers will start to see more of Uncle Mo’s stock race locally as breeders appear to have targeted the sire as an outcross for some mares carrying Sadler’s Wells blood.

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HAT much is apparent from the pedigrees of several yearlings at Keeneland, including Blandford Stud’s filly out of Pretty Polly Stakes heroine Diamondsandrubies, a daughter of Fastnet Rock out of Sadler’s Wells’ Group 1-winning daughter Quarter Moon, and the Taylor Made-consigned filly out of Grade 1 winner and dual

Guineas runner-up Together, a Galileo three-parts sister to Jan Vermeer who has already produced stakes performers Battle Of Jericho and Earring to War Front and Dansili.

Another Uncle Mo at Keeneland with an intriguing international pedigree is Eaton Sales’ colt out of Australian Thousand Guineas heroine Irish Lights, a daughter of Fastnet Rock who has produced the Group 1 Golden Rose second Omei Sword.

If the improved pedigrees of the Uncle Mo yearlings and enhanced demand for them translate into even better racecourse results, then the sire might just go on to become one of the modern greats.

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Racing Post Thursday, August 22, 2019

Pictures: COOLMORE

Ten hips by Uncle Mo to follow at Keeneland Hip 159

b f ex Together (Galileo) Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency Out of a dual Guineas runner-up and Grade 1 winner by Galileo who has already produced Group 2 runner-up Earring and Listed-placed Battle Of Jericho

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dk b/br c ex Chamrousse (Peaks And Valleys) Taylor Made Sales Colt out of Black-Eyed Susan Stakes winner and Mother Goose Stakes runner-up Chamrousse, making him a half-brother to Listed-placed Redverse

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484

b f ex Czarina (Bernardini) Denali Stud First foal of a placed Bernardini sister to Grade 1 winners Angela Renee and To Honor And Serve. Dam is also a half-sister to Donn Handicap third Elnaawi

b c ex House Of Danzing (Chester House) Gainesway Half-brother to Malibu Stakes winner and sire Twirling Candy, Del Mar Derby winner Ethnic Dance and Grade 3 scorer Dubai Sky

b c ex Lady Godiva (Unbridled’s Song) Bridie Harrison Half-brother to Clark Handicap winner Leofric from the family of high-class performers Initiation, Multiple Choice and Well Chosen

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455

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b f ex Diamondsandrubies (Fastnet Rock) Blandford Stud Second foal out of Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes heroine Diamondsandrubies, a daughter of Fastnet Rock and the Group 1 winner and Classic-placed Quarter Moon

dk b/br c ex Irish Lights (Fastnet Rock) Eaton Sales Half-brother to Australian Group 2 winner and Group 1 runner-up Omei Sword out of Thousand Guineas heroine Irish Lights, a daughter of Fastnet Rock

b c ex Exotic Bloom (Montbrook) Eaton Sales Half-brother to brilliant multiple Grade 1 winner Stopchargingmaria (left) (left who also counts Railway Stakes winner Van Beethoven as a relative

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b c ex Balance (Thunder Gulch) Mill Ridge Sales Colt out of Balance, a multiple Grade 1-winning half-sister to the legendary racemare Zenyatta; also the family of Grade 1 runner-up Long Island Sound

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b c ex Mythical Bride (Street Cry) Glennwood Farm Half-brother to Santa Anita Gold Cup and Wood Memorial Stakes winner Vino Rosso out of a half-sister to Grade 1-placed Commissioner and Laugh Track

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Thursday, August 22, 2019 racingpost.com

KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE

‘When breeders came to see Runhappy the horse sold himself and was booked full within the first month of him being at Claiborne’ Nancy Sexton speaks to Walker Hancock of Claiborne Farm about its exciting stallion line-up and 2019 draft

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HE very definition of speed manifested itself in the form of Runhappy back in 2015. While American Pharoah was thundering through his iconic Triple Crown campaign, a similar aura of invincibility was evolving around his contemporary, a horse blessed with blistering pace and the ability to carry it to multiple stakes records.

Few horses came close to challenging Runhappy as he racked up his sequence of high-flying wins in the colours of James McIngvale. There was that first leap into Grade 1 company in the King’s Bishop Stakes at Saratoga, in which he “broke from the gate like a monster” – in the words of The Saratoga Special’s Sean Clancy – and stayed there, shrugging off his foes to win by four lengths in a stakes record of 1min 20.54sec.

From there, Runhappy won the Grade 3 Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix Stakes at Keeneland to set him up for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, again back at Keeneland, where he did not disappoint, out-kicking Private Zone to win in another track record.

A wide-margin victory in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita Park crowned an exceptional championship season of six wins, three of them at Grade 1 level, in three

different states. All the while he raced medication free, almost unheard of nowadays in American competition.

Such a résumé sets an incredibly high bar for Runhappy to match at stud, while making him one of the most exciting young first-crop sires of 2019. He retired to Claiborne in 2017 as the most accomplished son of Super Saver to stud and has been consistently popular since then at a fee of $25,000. Now it is crunch time as his first crop of yearlings come under the microscope at auction – and so far the omens are good.

“He was an extremely easy sell,” says Walker Hancock, president of Claiborne Farm.

“When breeders came to see him at the farm the horse sold himself and he was booked full within the first month of him being at Claiborne.

“Every breeder had heard of Runhappy and there was a lot of interest in him before he came to stud based on his performance at the track.”

Claiborne’s storied past is one of the most respected in the industry. The stallion cemetery is testament to the history that seeps through the farm, celebrating as it does the time that Nasrullah, Bold Ruler, Secretariat, Buckpasser, Nijinsky, Mr Prospector and Danzig each spent on its roster.

And of course today the farm remains at the top of its game through the deeds of War Front, himself in the midst of another memorable season as the sire of two top dirt talents in War Of Will and Omaha Beach.

Time will tell whether Runhappy, who occupies the same stall as Bold Ruler and Secretariat, can join that pantheon of Claiborne giants, but he is in a position where lack of opportunity can never be an excuse, particularly as he also continues to have the backing of McIngvale.

‘Mattress Mack’ McIngvale owns and operates the Houston-based Gallery Furniture retail chain and is therefore well placed to appreciate the importance of savvy marketing.

Between them, Runhappy’s connections have launched a series of initiatives to promote the stallion, including a $100,000 bonus to the owner of any Runhappy two-year-old who wins a maiden special weight during the 2020 summer meets at Saratoga, Del Mar and Kentucky Downs.

“Mr McIngvale has been a huge supporter of his horse and believes in the fundamentals of advertising to sell a product,” explains Hancock. “He sees this as a huge opportunity to continue to promote Runhappy – and it has clearly worked as we’re talking about it right now!

“Many owners and breeders have mentioned the bonus as helping them sell their horses as well as looking to buy them in the sales ring to win the bonus.”

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HERE was certainly plenty of chat about the bonus on the sale grounds in Saratoga recently.

Having said that, however, momentum had already been building behind the horse prior to the official launch. Reports on his first foals were positive out of last year’s breeding-stock sales, where his 11 six-figure representatives led to an average of $148,667.

And that has carried over into this year, which has already featured a $650,000 yearling out of Always In My Heart sold to Cromwell Bloodstock at Saratoga – Runhappy ended Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga Sale as the leading freshman sire by average on a figure of $395,000.

“He’s passing down his stunning good looks and athleticism,” says Hancock. “His progeny are very balanced, racy and have good minds just like their father.

“He truly is stamping his offspring in a uniform fashion, much like we’ve seen War Front and Blame do here at the farm.”

He adds: “We have three very solid Runhappys we’re offering at Keeneland. One is so nice we decided to place him in Book 1. He’s a standout physical and I believe many foreign and domestic buyers will see him and he’ll set the standard and hopefully gain some early momentum for Runhappy to have a big September sale.

“Our other two are very nice as well and fit the mould for a typical Runhappy. We’re excited to offer all three prospects and believe they’ll be very well received.”

The Book 1 colt in question is hip 43, the second foal out of Rapid Repair, a winning Arch half-sister to Grade 3 winner Kitten’s Point. He is joined in the Claiborne draft by hip 596, a half-brother to four stakes scorers including the Grade 2-winning and Grade 1-placed filly Well Monied, and hip 1428, a daughter of Listed winner Tiz The Argument.

In all, Runhappy has 54 yearlings to represent him in the sale, among them the half-siblings to Grade 1 winners Fault (1107; colt from James B Keogh) and Hunter O’Riley (1301; filly from Elm Tree Farm), as well as a daughter of top two-year-old Meadow Breeze (535) from Betz Thoroughbreds.

As was his style on the track, it has to be said that Runhappy is well placed to now also hit the gates running at stud.

High hopes for fellow young sire Ironicus HOPES are also running high at Claiborne over the prospects of the farm’s other young stallion, Ironicus.

Trained by Shug McGaughey, Ironicus won six races, including the Grade 2 Dixie Stakes, and was runner-up in the Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile and Manhattan Stakes, writes Nancy Sexton.

Although the Stuart Janney homebred (below) does not have the numerical firepower of some of his contemporaries (he has 33 first-crop yearlings on the ground bred off a fee of $7,500), he was a record-setting millionaire and is a son of Distorted Humor from a successful family, giving plenty to recommend him.

“He has the pedigree and looks to certainly be a great stallion,” Walker Hancock says of the attractive grey who is one of six stakes winners out of Janney’s remarkable mare Meghan’s Joy. “Sons of Distorted Humor are doing very well at stud and with his pedigree he’ll have a great chance to make it.

“Unfortunately he’s going to have to do it the hard way.

He hasn’t had the luxury

of huge books to appeal to commercial buyers, but if a few come out running he’ll have a great chance to be a sire here for many years to come.”

He adds: “We’re keeping a couple to race ourselves to ensure they end up in the right hands with good trainers. We’re offering one who I believe will be our Book 5 topper [hip 3320; a colt out of the Arch mare Hurrah]. He’s a strong, athletic colt and looks like he’ll have a great turn of foot, much like his father possessed. There are only seven in the sale so it will be interesting to see how they’ll be received.”

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Pictures: EquiSport Photos and Claiborne Farm

Runhappy has earned rave reviews with his first crop, who are now yearlings; (inset) the entrance to Claiborne Farm

War Front colt in Book 1 ‘looks like he’ll fit the European style of racing’ FOR the past decade War Front has reigned as a driving force behind the fortunes of Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale, his allure intensified by his strong international appeal.

Since 2014 he has accounted for 14 million-dollar yearlings and currently boasts a lifetime yearling average of approximately $360,000. And with yet another loaded draft to represent him, chances are he plays a similarly influential role at this year’s renewal.

Among his draft of 34 yearlings are eight from Claiborne, five of whom are slated for Book 1. They include a colt out of the Group 3-placed Queen Nefertiti, herself a sister to The Gurkha (hip 37), and a half-brother to Grade 1 winner Force The Pass (95).

“Hopefully with the success of War Of Will and Omaha Beach on dirt this year, more domestic buyers will look at War Front’s to race in the US on dirt,” says Walker Hancock. “One of the War Fronts in Book 1 is out of a sister to The Gurkha, which many Europeans will know and like. He looks like he’ll fit the European style of racing so he should be popular among international buyers.”

He adds: “We also have a few nice yearlings by Curlin as well as Flatter.

I think top to bottom this is the strongest Book 1 and 2 horses we’ve had in quite some time.”

Claiborne’s 56-strong draft represents a fair cross spectrum of the farm’s roster. In addition to Flatter, the ever reliable First Samurai is well represented as is his son Lea, a remarkably versatile performer whose

first two-year-olds include the highly regarded Saratoga winner Vast.

“No-one really expected him to have this much early success as he didn’t race until May of his three-year-old year,” says Hancock. “I know there are plenty who are expecting to debut this fall who are well regarded.”

In all, the next few months promise to be an exciting time for the farm, as not only do they have the youngstock

by Runhappy, Ironicus and Lea to look forward to, but also the first foals by Mastery. In addition, the Belmont Derby and Travers Stakes winner Catholic Boy is slated to join the roster for 2020.

“We’re excited by our Mastery foals,” says Hancock of the unbeaten winner of the Cash Call Futurity for Bob Baffert who was booked full at 139 mares in his first season at a fee of $25,000.

“Someone asked me to describe them the other day and I told them to think Candy Ride but with more athleticism and substance. With Twirling Candy having a big year, it appears Candy Ride will be a sire of sires, and we believe Mastery will be one of them.”

He continues: “We’re also excited to add Catholic Boy to our roster next year. He’s a stakes winner on turf and dirt at two, three and hopefully four.

Being by international sire More Than Ready, he’ll have plenty of appeal domestically and internationally. He’s the perfect size and we’re excited to add him to our stallion barn this winter.”

Nancy Sexton

BOOK 1 LOTS WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY APPEARED IN THE SALES RING Sex C F F F C F C F F C F C F C C F C C C F F C C F F C F F C C C F F C C C C C F F C F C C F F F C C C C C C F F F C F

Sire Malibu Moon Malibu Moon Kitten's Joy Kitten's Joy American Pharoah Runhappy American Pharoah Not This Time Not This Time American Pharoah Distorted Humor American Pharoah California Chrome Frosted American Pharoah Tiznow Kitten's Joy Uncle Mo Runhappy Flintshire Nyquist Tapit Kitten's Joy Tapit Honor Code Frosted War Front Into Mischief Union Rags Union Rags Runhappy No Nay Never Frosted Flintshire War Front War Front Kitten's Joy Empire Maker Medaglia d'Oro War Front Medaglia d'Oro Into Mischief Exaggerator Malibu Moon Candy Ride American Pharoah Candy Ride Candy Ride Street Sense Street Sense Tapit American Pharoah American Pharoah Into Mischief Candy Ride Into Mischief American Pharoah More Than Ready

Dam Our Khrysty Perfect Cause Perfect Story Perfect Story Please Sign In Queens Plaza Rare Cat Sapphire Spitfire Sapphire Spitfire Slow Sand Smart Indeed Somalia Somethinaboutbetty Spanish Gold Spring Street Starship Elusive Street Interest Succeeding Summer Cruise Sumthingtotalkabt Sweet Belle Sweet Dreams Tee Off Urban Ball Villette Wave Theory Wonderful Zloty Zondaq Zondaq Aguadilla Alhania All In With Aces Amie's Dini Ana Luna Ana Luna Anura A P Mink Arch Support A Star Is Born Auntie Joy Ava Pie Betty's Solutions Blossomed Bold Union Border Dispute Capital Plan Causara Charlotte Lucas Colina Verde Dance With Another Dancing General Dancing Trieste Defy Gravity Devoted Donna D Escampette Foolish Ways

Price $95,000 $140,000 $200,000 $330,000 $215,000 $140,000 $95,000 $275,000 $300,000 $310,000 $205,000 $100,000 $200,000 $285,000 $250,000 $100,000 $205,000 $380,000 $90,000 $300,000

$390,000 $210,000 €130,000 $1,000 $300,000 $90,000 $190,000 $200,000 $170,000 $350,000 $185,000 $215,000 $110,000 $400,000 $190,000 $340,000 $200,000 $340,000 $150,000

Sale Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November Mixed Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Keeneland November Breeding Stock Arqana December Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November Mixed Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November Mixed Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock

Buyer Cavalier Bloodstock Not Sold Withdrawn AROC Bloodstock Brady Bloodstock Cavalier Bloodstock Justice Farm/Greg Justice Withdrawn Albaugh Family Stable Dudley Racing Withdrawn Andrew Williams Withdrawn Cavalier Bloodstock Horse France Louisiana Leasing Sanford Stable Not Sold McMahon & Hill Meredith Krupp Amy N Moore Solis/Litt Fred M Allor Withdrawn Withdrawn Not Sold Withdrawn Withdrawn Withdrawn Albert Racing KMCFF Stable Karate Bloodstock Withdrawn Big Oak Farms Withdrawn Backstretch Farms Nicoma Bloodstock Glencrest Farm Withdrawn Withdrawn Tuscany Bloodstock Withdrawn Brookstone Farm Glencrest Farm Lousiana Leasing Withdrawn Withdrawn AROC Racing Withdrawn Patrice Miller/EQB Stephen Irwin et al Withdrawn Not Sold Not Sold Withdrawn Hunter Valley Farm Hunter Valley Farm American Equistock

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Lot 8 20 22 22 27 40 44 64 64 88 90 96 97 101 104 107 117 120 121 123 129 131 142 175 179 183 195 201 202 202 208 214 216 224 226 226 229 231 233 239 244 245 264 267 272 273 292 305 310 318 339 340 341 349 355 364 382 402

Lot 403 404 411 419 435 448 451 452 453 454 455 461 471 473 487 526 529 532 543 550 550 559 559 560 561 565 567

Sex C C F C C F F C C C C F F F C C C C C C C C C C C C C

Sire Quality Road Into Mischief Speightstown Uncle Mo Curlin Frosted Frosted Into Mischief Medaglia d'Oro Street Sense Uncle Mo American Pharoah Kitten's Joy American Pharoah Bernardini Frosted Pioneerof The Nile Into Mischief Candy Ride Nyquist Nyquist Medaglia d'Oro Medaglia d'Oro Ghostzapper Union Rags Into Mischief Air Force Blue

Dam Front And Center Fruhl's Gold General Jeanne Gloomy I'm Knot Harriett Lane Indian Legend Inspired By Grace In Spite Of Mama Inventive Irish Connection Irish Lights Jemima's Pearl K. D.'s Shady Lady Keertana Lady Struck Gold Maria Maria Marion Ravenwood Mary Rita Miss Catomine Moon Music Moon Music Namaste's Wish Namaste's Wish Nashoba's Gold Natural Rush Nest Egg Nimue

Price $310,000 $140,000 $250,000 $450,000 $360,000 $300,000 $300,000 $385,000 $250,000 $175,000 $360,000 $250,000 $375,000 $52,000 $220,000 $290,000 $200,000 $170,000 $500,000 $100,000

Sale Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November Mixed Keeneland November Breeding Stock Keeneland November Breeding Stock Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November Mixed

Buyer Chestnut Valley Farm Beryl Stokes jnr Maverick Racing Renee Dailey Albaugh Family Stable Renee Dailey Withdrawn Not Sold Murphy Bloodstock Fedamore Stable Withdrawn Gary Contessa Withdrawn Not Sold Withdrawn Withdrawn McMahon & Hill B’stock Ardfield Bloodstock Cove Bloodstock Withdrawn Fish Bloodstock Not Sold Jack Sims Not Sold Withdrawn Pacific Union Bloodstock Not Sold

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Thursday, August 22, 2019 racingpost.com

KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE

From an idea hatched over a drink or two by four friends to a consigning colossus KEENELAND

Tom Peacock talks to Adrian Regan and Fergus Galvin of leading Keeneland vendor Hunter Valley

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HEN four members of America’s large Irish diaspora gathered to discuss the idea of buying a farm together, none of the quartet imagined that the behemoth of Hunter Valley would emerge from a table of empty drinking vessels.

In its 15 years of operation, Adrian Regan and Fergus Galvin, along with their silent partners Tony Hegarty and John Wade, have developed the business into one that sells more than 200 horses a year and regularly features among Keeneland’s leading consignors of both foals and yearlings.

“I think we were all out one night and, after maybe a drink or two, we hatched this idea,” Galvin recalls.

“Next morning we called everybody, ‘is everyone still on board?’, and they were, so we went looking for a farm. It just so happened there was one very conveniently located only ten minutes from Keeneland, it used to be called Golden Gate Stud, and ironically enough there was an Irish Derby winner, Zagreb, raised here back in the day.”

Hegarty and Wade, who own a construction business in Chicago, helped to give Regan and Galvin a financial footing and in 2004 the old friends who were on the Irish National Stud course together set to work drumming up interest.

“You could imagine how nervous we were,” says Regan.

“At the time the country wasn’t exactly booming, we didn’t really start it at the best of financial times but we got lucky with a couple of pinhooks straight away and things kept going. We had confidence in ourselves that we could go and do it, but you have to have a certain amount of luck.

“I’d been managing Crescent Hill for the Stiltz family.

Basically I had to bring in the clients and they employed me to do that as well as manage the farm. I’d been doing three years of hard hustling and it was a continuation of what I’d been doing, except we had to make ends meet as we also paid the bills!”

With Galvin also known in the trade from long stints

Despite both having spent a quarter of a century in Kentucky, the pair’s Irish accents are undiminished and they attempt to get home most years if possible, although this is something of a gruelling experience for Galvin, who has four young children.

With an ever-expanding business, though, neither feels they are likely to relocate any time soon.

“It’s a different game over there to here,” says Regan.

“If I went home, which I don’t think will happen, I’d have to take a year out and follow someone around to realise how it’s done.”

I Fergus Galvin (left) and Adrian Regan: together with two silent partners, the Irishmen operate Hunter Valley Farm in Kentucky

at Pin Oak, Newgate and Coolmore, the pair had enough of a reputation to be able to take a decent-sized consignment to the September Yearling Sale in 2005. And it contained one particular $250,000 youngster who was to set them on the right path.

“I think the very first yearling we put through the ring was Scat Daddy himself,” Galvin says. “He has sort of been our poster child of sorts, so it wasn’t a bad way to start off your initial venture into the horse business.

“What he went on to accomplish [in the Champagne Stakes and Florida Derby], it certainly stuck with our name a little bit, so to speak, and we also sold [son] No

Nay Never, although he was a weanling. Those two horses in themselves are great advertisements for the farm.

It’s a few moons now but it doesn’t seem that long ago.”

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HE results kept coming through the likes of multiple Grade 1 winner and promising stallion The Factor, and Hunter Valley acquired major international clients including Qatar Racing, for whom it sold dual Oaks runner-up Secret Gesture for $3,500,000.

Neither Galvin nor Regan are the types to shout their success from the rooftops, nor do they believe there to be a particular reason as to how

they have broken into the top tier.

“I suppose people know that we work hard outside the barn and we represent everybody the same,” says the latter. “I think that’s been recognised and more and more people are entrusting us to sell their horses, which is really appreciated.”

Galvin also explains that it helps to maintain a healthy mixture of clients.

“We’ve got several pinhooking partnerships ourselves, a lot of people come in with us, and us with other people as well, we’ll take a piece, and everyone has fun doing it,” he says. “We’re maybe half pinhooks, half homebreds, and we sell for

others who just send them to us for the sales.

“I guess it spreads the risk a bit, you get more people involved. There probably aren’t two horses on the farm owned the same way, but people come in and like what we do.”

It helps Hunter Valley to take the rough with the smooth.

“Obviously sales times can be stressful, it’s your whole year’s work on the line,” Galvin says. “You try to enjoy it but I’m not saying it’s a cakewalk by any means. You enjoy it when the hammer drops, anyway.

“We’ve had so many and owned so many, it’s the bigger picture we look at really. You’re going to stub your toe along the way, but just move on.”

RONICALLY, managing a stud was not Regan’s intention when he set foot in America in the mid-1990s. “I had one of those Morrison visas, I was intending coming to do six months to qualify for the full visa, but I soon realised after half of that that I was loving it, and I knew it was going to be a longer stint,” he says.

“I had in my head when I came over that I was wanting to be a trainer, but I went to Padraig and Aveen Campion at Blandford Stud, they really gave me a wide experience at everything. Padraig was pre-training and also gave me an introduction to the sales – to this day he’s one of the best men to sell a horse at the sales I’ve ever known.

“I was still thinking I was going to be a trainer, but Padraig got me in touch with Eoin Harty, who was with Bob Baffert at the time. I soon realised that the hours that go into it and the chances of being the next Bob Baffert were slim. I made a decision that I had to go and try to get a stud job and go down the road that a lot of my friends were.”

It is a road that has sent him in very much the right direction, particularly after that one hazy night.

‘We have a real quality Quality Road colt – I suppose I should say an outstanding one’ HUNTER VALLEY will be consigning more than 70 yearlings through the 13 sessions of Keeneland. Included among the 14 Book 1 offerings are five sons and daughters of American Pharoah, and Fergus Galvin says that they have been firmly behind the Triple Crown hero.

“We’re big fans of Pharoah,” he says.

“The ones we have up at the farm are all very good. They’re very athletic horses, that’s the one common thing about them. They’re great movers and he’s got off to a great start, so we’re pretty excited about those.”

While reluctant to single out

individuals, Galvin gives a good mention to a Medaglia D’Oro colt (hip 453) who is a half-brother to Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity winner Klimt.

Adrian Regan adds another to the shortlist. “We have a real quality Quality Road colt [566] – I suppose I should say an outstanding one,” he says.

“I’d say it probably is our largest consignment for September and I think we have a strong group in each book.

Even in Book 5 there are some good individuals, I know the Europeans have been staying longer and longer, and I’m really hoping they stay the

trip as we promise them quality throughout!”

Galvin also voices his approval of the decision by Keeneland to abbreviate Book 1 to three days from four.

“Last year there were questions a little about the format, I think quite a few people thought it was just a stretch, that there wasn’t enough quality to fill four days of Book 1,” he says. “Maybe the numbers weren’t there for four, and perhaps a few people got slightly aggravated. I think the shorter format should work.

“From start to finish you’re getting different audiences, not completely

different but at stages new people come in. The high-end Europeans stay maybe Books 1 and 2, then the pinhooking-type Europeans come from the first weekend on. As long as they can stay here, they like to stay here, because there are so many horses.

“When you go back into the books, with 300, 400 horses a day, they go pretty quick and that’s where the bargains are found sometimes, in the middle of a big crowd. They might be back in Book 4 or 5, but there have been some big pinhooks done to Europe at relatively modest prices.”

TOM PEACOCK

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Racing Post Thursday, August 22, 2019

STAKES FORM OF HIPS’ SIBLINGS KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE  BOOK 1, SELECT SESSIONS 13 LOT NUMBER BREEDING SIBLING SIRE BEST STAKES RUN BEST RPR 5 1 f Empire Maker-One Stormy Mama Thunder Moccasin A. P. Warrior G2w 115 10 1 f Curlin-Overandabeauty Noble And A Beauty Noble Causeway Lp 96 16 1 f American Pharoah-Paradise Playgirl Summer Reading Hard Spun Lp 93 19 1 c Tapit-Pavati Party Boat Into Mischief G3p 101 20 1 f Malibu Moon-Perfect Cause Donegal Moon Malibu Moon G3w 102 22 1 f Kitten’s Joy-Perfect Story Street Story Street Cry G3w 104 Paige Sky Mesa Lw 103 Medjool Monarchos G2p 100 27 1 c American Pharoah-Please Sign In Certify Elusive Quality G1w 113 Cry And Catch Me Street Cry G1w 110 29 1 c Pioneerof The Nile-Pretty ‘N Smart Cupid Tapit G1w 119 Ashley’s Kitty Tale Of The Cat G3w 108 Heart Ashley Lion Heart G3w 107 40 1 f Runhappy-Queens Plaza Queen Caroline Blame Lw 95 41 1 c Into Mischief-Queen’s Wood True Timber Mineshaft G1p 110 44 1 c American Pharoah-Rare Cat Om Munnings G2w 119 47 1 f Uncle Mo-Rejoicing Auntie Joy Uncle Mo G3w 102 Divine Oath Broken Vow G3w 107 49 1 c Karakontie-Reunited Code Of Honor Noble Mission G2w 116 Big League Speightstown G2p 104 51 1 c Tapit-Rigoletta Battle Of Midway Smart Strike G1w 122 56 1 c Medaglia d’Oro-Rubina Rubilinda Frankel Lw 100 59 1 c Tapit-Sacred Feather Taareef Kitten’s Joy G2w 121 61 1 c Pioneerof The Nile-Sambuca Classica Classic Empire Pioneerof The Nile G1w 123 66 1 f War Front-Sarah Lynx Segra Shamardal Lp 95 67 1 c Empire Maker-Sassifaction Cambodia War Front G2w 110 68 1 c Curlin-Scarlet Tango Tara’s Tango Unbridled’s Song G1w 110 Visionaire Grand Slam G1w 114 Madison’s Luna Tapit G3w 104 Scarlet Strike Smart Strike G3w 103 75 1 c Tapit-Seeking Gabrielle Nyquist Uncle Mo G1w 124 80 1 c Tonalist-Shine Forth Bourbon Courage Lion Heart G2w 117 82 1 c Street Boss-Shutterbug Social Paranoia Street Boss G1p 109 85 1 c Tapit-Sindy With An S I’ll Wrap It Up Tapit G3p 102 My Miss Tapit Tapit G2p 88 87 1 f Frosted-Sister Girl Blues Firing Line Line Of David G3w 122 88 1 c American Pharoah-Slow Sand Dorothy B Fastnet Rock Lp 104 94 1 f Frosted-Snow Top Mountain Greyvitos Malibu Moon G3w 104 95 1 c War Front-Social Queen Force The Pass Speightstown G1w 112 96 1 c American Pharoah-Somalia Lookin For Eight Lookin At Lucky G3w 81 Miss Mo Mentum Uncle Mo G3w 95 97 1 f California Chrome-Somethinaboutbetty Dewey Square Bernardini G2p 102 98 1 f Exaggerator-Song Of Bernadette Catholic Boy More Than Ready G1w 123 99 1 f The Gurkha-Song To Remember Magnificent Song Unbridled’s Song G1w 111 Great Barrier Reef Mr Greeley G2p 109 Galileo’s Song Galileo G3p 98 Park Avenue Mr Greeley G3p 98 106 1 c Pioneerof The Nile-Stage Magic Justify Scat Daddy G1w 125 The Lieutenant Street Sense G3w 106 110 1 f Curlin-Steelin’ Shanghai Bobby Harlan’s Holiday G1w 118 112 1 f Candy Ride-Storm Tide American Lion Tiznow G3w 113 113 1 f Pioneerof The Nile-Stormy B Itsaknockout Lemon Drop Kid G2w 108 Hot Sean Flatter G3p 90 121 1 c Runhappy-Summer Cruise Sandbar War Pass G3w 96 123 1 f Flintshire-Sumthingtotalkabt Lady Shipman Midshipman G3w 113 124 1 c War Front-Sun Shower Excelebration Exceed And Excel G1w 131 Lancaster Bomber War Front G1w 119 Mull Of Killough Mull Of Kintyre G3w 117 126 1 f Air Force Blue-Sure Route Divine Image Scat Daddy G3w 107

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half-brother

Brookdale Sales full brother

Gainesway

full brother full sister

half-brother

St George Sales half-sister

Brookdale Sales

half-brother half-brother

Hunter Valley Farm

half-brother half-sister

Taylor Made Sales Agency

half-brother

Taylor Made Sales Agency

half-brother

Eaton Sales

half-sister half-brother three-quarter sister half-brother

Glennwood Farm

half-brother half-brother

Stonehaven Steadings

half-brother

Timber Town

half-brother

Indian Creek

half-brother half-brother

Hidden Brook

half-brother

Select Sales

half-sister

Gainesway

half-brother full brother three-quarter brother

Four Star Sales

half-sister

LOT NUMBER BREEDING VENDOR SIBLING SIRE BEST STAKES RUN BEST RPR RELATION 128 1 c Tapit-Sweet Beat Paramount Sales Cameo Appearance Majestic Warrior G3p 102 half-brother Top Clearance Majestic Warrior Lp 103 half-brother Lane’s End 134 1 f Tapit-Tabarin Beat The Benchmark Speightstown G1p 94 half-sister Abraham Distorted Humor G3p 102 half-brother St George Sales 136 1 c Candy Ride-Tamboz Battalion Runner Unbridled’s Song G2p 111 half-brother Oceanwave Harlan’s Holiday G2p 100 half-sister 142 1 c Kitten’s Joy-Tee Off Taylor Made Sales Agency Five Iron Sharp Humor G3w 110 half-brother Back Spin Successful Appeal G2p 95 half-sister Gainesway 143 1 f Tapit-Temple Street Con Te Partiro Scat Daddy G3w 110 half-sister Donworth Tiznow G2p 112 half-brother 144 1 c Empire Maker-Tempus Fugit Bluewater Sales Majestic River A.P. Indy G2w 105 half-sister Paramount Sales 146 1 c American Pharoah-Tessie Flip Jo Jo Air Scat Daddy Lw 0 half-sister Paramount Sales 147 1 f Lope De Vega-Thai Haku Sarrocchi Galileo Lw 98 half-sister Gainesway 152 1 c Nyquist-Tia Tejana Curlin G3p 102 half-sister Burleson Farms 154 1 c Curlin-Tizamazing Oxbow Awesome Again G1w 119 half-brother Taylor Made Sales Agency 157 1 f Into Mischief-Tizso Paynter Awesome Again G1w 123 half-brother Tiz West Gone West G3w 107 half-brother Taylor Made Sales Agency 158 1 f Nyquist-Tizsotrue Tizso Wicked Duporth G3p 0 half-sister Taylor Made Sales Agency 159 1 f Uncle Mo-Together Earring Dansili G2p 104 half-sister Battle Of Jericho War Front Lp 104 half-brother 163 1 f Empire Maker-Trappings Bluewater Sales She Be Wild Offlee Wild G1w 115 half-sister 165 1 c Bernardini-Triumphantly Morris B. Floyd & Chuck Givens Trouble Kid Harlan’s Holiday G3w 107 half-brother Four Star Sales 167 1 f Galileo-Turbulent Descent Steps Galileo G3w 108 full brother Penn Sales 169 1 f Runhappy-Unbridled Empire Arklow Arch G2w 112 half-brother Maraud Blame G2w 110 half-brother 170 1 c American Pharoah-Undercover Justice Ashview Farm Conquest Babayaga Uncle Mo G3p 56 half-sister 171 1 c Quality Road-Union City Eaton Sales Unified Candy Ride G2w 118 half-brother 172 1 c Tapit-Unrivaled Belle Timber Town Unique Bella Tapit G1w 115 full sister Lane’s End 173 1 c Pioneerof The Nile-Up Monarch Of Egypt American Pharoah G1p 114 half-brother Taylor Made Sales Agency 175 1 f Tapit-Urban Ball Merimbula Dalakhani Lp 103 half-sister

LOT NUMBER BREEDING VENDOR SIBLING SIRE BEST STAKES RUN BEST RPR RELATION 180 1 f Candy Ride-Virginia Bee Eaton Sales Cherokee Queen Cherokee Run G3w 108 half-sister 184 1 f Quality Road-Wear Red Gainesway Jessica Krupnick Uncle Mo G3p 0 half-sister 185 Golden Whim 1 c Medaglia d’Oro-Weekend Whim Lane’s End New Money Honey Medaglia d’Oro G1w 110 full sister 190 1 c Union Rags-Wild Forest Lane’s End Paradise Woods Union Rags G1w 119 full sister Valkyre Stud 192 1 f Medaglia d’Oro-Wilshewed Stormello Stormy Atlantic G1w 114 half-brother My Best Brother Stormy Atlantic G2w 107 half-brother Gala Award Bernardini G3w 105 half-brother Cherry Lodge Bernardini G3p 87 half-sister Darby Dan Farm 193 1 f Tapit-Winter Memories Winter Sunset Tapit G3p 97 full sister Taylor Made Sales Agency 194 1 c Pioneerof The Nile-Without Delay Before You Know It Hard Spun G3p 92 half-sister Instant Reflex Quality Road G3p 97 half-sister Taylor Made Sales Agency 199 1 f Union Rags-Zayanna Point Of Honor Curlin G2w 110 half-sister Velvet Mood Lonhro Lw 87 half-sister 205 1 f Speightstown-Aerocat Brookdale Sales Istanford Istan G2w 106 three-quarter sister 206 1 c Tapit-African Jade Lord Nelson Pulpit G1w 122 three-quarter brother 207 1 c War Front-Agreeable Miss Eaton Sales King Neptune War Front Lp 96 full brother 209 1 f Medaglia d’Oro-Aguilera Baccari Bloodstock Bluegrass Singer Bluegrass Cat G2p 99 half-brother 213 1 c Empire Maker-Aldebaran Light Woods Edge Farm Balmont Stravinsky G1w 115 half-brother Eskendereya Giant’s Causeway G1w 126 half-brother Blake-Albina Thoroughbred Services 215 1 c More Than Ready-Alina Nemoralia More Than Ready G3w 114 full sister Taylor Made Sales Agency 216 1 f Frosted-All In With Aces Hard Aces Hard Spun G1w 111 half-brother Astrollinthepark Divine Park G3p 0 half-sister Summerfield 226 1 c War Front-Ana Luna Alterite Literato G1w 113 half-sister James B. Keogh 229 1 c Kitten’s Joy-Anura Luck Of The Kitten Kitten’s Joy G1p 109 full brother Empire Builder Kitten’s Joy G3p 100 full brother Brookdale Sales 230 Washington Square 1 f American Pharoah-Anyhow Noble Bird Birdstone G1w 115 half-brother Dido Bernstein G3p 90 half-sister 232 1 f Frosted-Appealing Zophie Tapwrit Tapit G1w 119 three-quarter brother Ride A Comet Candy Ride G2w 105 half-brother 236 1 c American Pharoah-Arravale Bluegrass Thoroughbred Services Nancy O Pivotal G2p 98 half-sister 237 1 f Malibu Moon-Ask Me When Paramount Sales Up The Ante Smart Strike G3p 102 half-brother

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Thursday, August 22, 2019 racingpost.com

KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE

STAKES FORM OF HIPS’ SIBLINGS KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE  BOOK 1, SELECT SESSIONS 13 LOT NUMBER BREEDING VENDOR SIBLING SIRE BEST STAKES RUN BEST RPR RELATION 238 1 f Quality Road-Ask The Question Hidden Brook Heart To Heart English Channel G1w 117 half-brother 239 1 f War Front-A Star Is Born Hill ‘N’ Dale Sales Agency Fleet Review War Front Lw 116 full brother Taylor Made Sales Agency 245 1 f Into Mischief-Ava Pie Forever Liesl Mineshaft Lw 83 half-sister 246 1 c American Pharoah-A Z Warrior Key To My Heart Galileo Lw 101 half-sister 247 1 c Tapit-Baffled Constitution Tapit G1w 118 full brother Boynton More Than Ready G2w 113 half-brother Jacaranda Congrats G3w 99 half-sister 250 1 c Flatter-Bashful Bertie Elm Tree Farm Beach Patrol Lemon Drop Kid G1w 117 half-brother 257 1 f Tapit-Bel Air Beauty Stacked Deck First Samurai G2w 114 half-brother Valentino Beauty Vindication G2p 106 half-brother Brereton C. Jones / Airdrie Stud 258 1 c War Front-Believe You Can Believe In Royalty Tapit G3p 99 half-brother 259 Royal Tryst 1 c Medaglia d’Oro-Belle Watling Lane’s End Land Over Sea Bellamy Road G2w 107 half-sister War Story Northern Afleet G2w 120 half-brother 261 1 c Curlin-Bend Bendable Horse Greeley G3w 102 half-sister Clearly Now Horse Greeley G3w 120 half-brother Beau Lane Bloodstock 263 1 c Flatter-Berncredit Sistas Stroll Stroll G3w 106 half-sister St George Sales 264 1 c Exaggerator-Betty’s Solutions Include Betty Include G1w 109 half-sister Blonde Fog Divine Park G1p 108 half-sister Francesca D’Gorgio Proud Citizen Lp 98 half-sister 267 1 c Malibu Moon-Blossomed Four Star Sales Sippican Harbor Orb G1w 103 half-sister Bodacious Babe Mineshaft G3p 93 three-quarter sister Hill ‘N’ Dale Sales Agency 268 1 c Kitten’s Joy-Blue Grass Music Henley’s Joy Kitten’s Joy G1w 110 full brother Taylor Made Sales Agency 270 Suchada 1 f Frosted-Boat’s Ghost Finnegans Wake Powerscourt G1w 111 half-brother Puca Big Brown G2p 101 half-sister 272 Bold Confection 1 f Candy Ride-Bold Union Wynnstay Sales Bold Quality Elusive Quality G2p 96 half-sister 273 1 f American Pharoah-Border Dispute Blandford Stud Long Lashes Rock Hard Ten G3w 109 half-sister Mythical Border Johannesburg G2p 102 half-sister Combatant Scat Daddy G2p 104 half-brother Sam-Son Farm 276 1 f Hard Spun-Brave Destiny Aldous Snow Theatrical G3w 107 half-brother

LOT NUMBER BREEDING SIBLING SIRE 280 1 c Pioneerof The Nile-Brownie Points Synchrony Tapit Chocolate Kisses Candy Ride 281 1 f Bernardini-Brush Hour Brushed By A Star Eddington 282 1 c American Pharoah-Bullville Belle Connect Curlin 286 1 f Bernardini-Cableknit Capezzano Bernardini 291 1 c Medaglia d’Oro-Cambiocorsa Moulin De Mougin Curlin Schiaparelli Ghostzapper Bronson Medaglia d’Oro 294 1 f Kitten’s Joy-Cardinalli Banned Kitten’s Joy 296 1 c Honor Code-Caroni Red Ruby Tiznow Mo Tom Uncle Mo Beautician Dehere 303 1 c Kitten’s Joy-Cat On A Tin Roof Sniper Kitten Kitten’s Joy 308 1 c Kitten’s Joy-Celestial Woods Bobby’s Kitten Kitten’s Joy Camelot Kitten Kitten’s Joy 312 1 c Twirling Candy-Charm The Giant Liam The Charmer Smart Strike Charm The Maker Empire Maker 318 1 c Street Sense-Colina Verde Greenzapper Ghostzapper Limonite Lemon Drop Kid 320 1 f Frosted-Concinnous Iotapa Afleet Alex Saintly Joan Northern Afleet 324 1 f More Than Ready-Cool Spell Impressive Edge Harlan’s Holiday 325 1 f Tapit-Courtisane Madame Stripes Equal Stripes Equal Councellor Equal Stripes 326 1 f Frosted-Crosswinds Weep No More Mineshaft Current Curlin 336 1 c Nyquist-Daisy Mason Harry’s Holiday Harlan’s Holiday Remedy Creative Cause 340 1 c American Pharoah-Dancing General Blingismything Arch 341 1 c American Pharoah-Dancing Trieste Giovanni Boldini War Front

BEST STAKES RUN BEST RPR G2w G3w

111 99

G2w

108

G1w

115

G1w

119

G2w G2w G3p G2w G2w G3w G1p

103 105 104 115 109 110 113

Lw

104

G1w G2w

118 108

VENDOR RELATION half-brother half-sister

Warrendale Sales

half-sister

Vanmeter-Gentry Sales

half-brother

Select Sales

full brother

Lane’s End

half-sister half-sister full brother

Taylor Made Sales Agency

full brother

Warrendale Sales

half-sister half-brother half-sister

Taylor Made Sales Agency

full brother

Taylor Made Sales Agency

full brother full brother

Winter Quarter Farm

G2w G1p

110 110

G1w G2p

100 105

half-sister half-brother

G1w G3p

116 93

half-sister half-sister

G3p

101

G3w G1p

105 101

G1w G3w

109 100

G3p G3p

105 87

G3w Lw

half-brother half-sister

Eaton Sales

Taylor Made Sales Agency

half-brother

Gainesway

half-sister half-brother

Hinkle Farms

half-sister half-brother

Brereton C. Jones / Airdrie Stud

102 115

half-brother half-sister

Brookdale Sales

half-sister

Hill ‘N’ Dale Sales Agency

half-brother

LOT NUMBER BREEDING SIBLING SIRE 343 1 c Curlin-Date To Remember National Flag Speightstown 345 Distinction 1 c Curlin-Daydreaming Imagining Giant’s Causeway 347 1 f Medaglia d’Oro-Debonnaire Hartnell Authorized Roz Teofilo 352 1 c Curlin-Desert Classic Wrote High Chaparral 354 1 c War Front-Devil By Design Competitionofideas Speightstown 359 1 f Speightstown-Discerning Classic Point Flatter 360 1 f Tapit-Distorted Passion Mrs McDougal Medaglia d’Oro 363 1 f Uncle Mo-Diza J R ‘s Holiday Harlan’s Holiday 369 1 f Not This Time-Dream Of Summer Creative Cause Giant’s Causeway Destin Giant’s Causeway Vexatious Giant’s Causeway 370 1 c Medaglia d’Oro-Dream Rush Dreaming Of Julia A.P. Indy Dream Pauline Tapit 376 1 c Tapit-Ecology General Quarters Sky Mesa A Shin Top Tale Of The Cat 378 1 f Uncle Mo-Elusive Raven Lost Raven Uncle Mo 399 1 c Carpe Diem-Flaming Heart Commissioner A.P. Indy Laugh Track Distorted Humor 400 1 f Kitten’s Joy-Fleeting Humor Seventhfleethumor Afleet Alex 409 1 c Into Mischief-Gaudete Snowboarder Raven’s Pass 411 1 f Speightstown-General Jeanne Chace City Carson City Justwhistledixie Dixie Union Bakken Distorted Humor 412 1 c Ghostzapper-Getback Time Shaman Ghost Ghostzapper 413 1 f The Gurkha-Ghizlaan Arabda Elnadim Ghaaly Tamayuz 414 1 c Twirling Candy-Ghost Dancing Ascend Candy Ride Roadster Quality Road Moro Tap Tapit 416 1 c Curlin-Giant Mover Family Tree Smart Strike Liora Candy Ride 418 1 f Uncle Mo-Global Finance Acapulco Scat Daddy 419 1 c Uncle Mo-Gloomy I’m Knot Fusaichi Red Fusaichi Pegasus 425 1 c Medaglia d’Oro-Golden Sheba Wedding Toast Street Sense 426 1 f Curlin-Goldfield Complexity Maclean’s Music Valadorna Curlin 431 1 c Curlin-Grazie Mille Mo Town Uncle Mo 435 1 c Curlin-Harriett Lane Street Of Gold Street Sense 437 1 f American Pharoah-Helena Bay Collected City Zip 444 1 c Uncle Mo-House Of Danzing Twirling Candy Candy Ride Ethnic Dance Tribal Rule Dubai Sky Candy Ride 453 1 c Medaglia d’Oro-Inventive Klimt Quality Road West Coast Chick Malibu Moon 454 1 c Street Sense-Irish Connection Irish Jasper First Defence 455 1 c Uncle Mo-Irish Lights Omei Sword High Chaparral 456 1 c War Front-Ithinkisawapudycat Sweet Loretta Tapit 459 1 c Honor Code-It Tiz It Tiz Well Arch 466 1 c Pioneerof The Nile-Justwhistledixie New Year’s Day Street Cry Mohaymen Tapit Kingly Tapit 470 1 c Quality Road-Katori Zatter Midnight Lute 471 1 f Kitten’s Joy-K. D.’s Shady Lady Lady Of Fifty After Market 473 1 f American Pharoah-Keertana Ticonderoga Tapit 474 1 f Honor Code-Keowee Clai Dearest Midshipman 475 1 f Tapit-Kid Majic Miss Mischief Into Mischief 477 1 c Candy Ride-Kittery Point Sam’s Sister Brother Derek Sensitive Divine Park

BEST STAKES RUN BEST RPR G3w

102

G1w

115

G1w Lw

121 102

G1w

115

G1w G2w

112 109

G2w

107

Lw

100

G1w G2w G3w

120 118 106

G1w G3w

122 0

G1w G2w

121 114

G3w

98

G2w G3w

119 118

G3p

96

G3p

111

VENDOR RELATION

Taylor Made Sales Agency half-brother half-brother

Mt. Brilliant Farm

half-brother half-sister

Mt. Brilliant Farm

half-brother

Glennwood Farm half-sister

Woodford Thoroughbreds

half-sister

Taylor Made Sales Agency half-sister

Gainesway

half-brother

Taylor Made Sales Agency

three-quarter brother three-quarter brother three-quarter sister

Taylor Made Sales Agency

half-sister half-sister

Gainesway

three-quarter brother half-brother

Mill Ridge Sales full sister

Taylor Made Sales Agency

half-brother half-brother

Taylor Made Sales Agency

half-brother

Castlepark Farm, Llc

half-brother

Taylor Made Sales Agency

G2w G2w G2p

108 113 109

G1w

118

Lw Lw

95 103

half-sister half-brother

G1w G1w G3p

111 115 102

three-quarter brother half-brother half-brother

G2w G2w

107 111

three-quarter sister half-sister

G2w

113

G2p

92

G1w

116

G1w G3w

117 110

G1w

110

G3p

103

G1w

126

G1w G2w G3w

124 105 105

G1w G3p

115 91

G2w

110

G2w G1w

108 105

G1w

114

G1w G2w G3w

118 116 100

G1p

106

G1w

110

G3w

103

G3w

102

G2w

102

G1w Lp

111 0

half-brother half-sister half-brother

Taylor Made Sales Agency full brother

Gainesway

Stone Farm

Lane’s End

Taylor Made Sales Agency half-sister

Vanmeter-Gentry Sales half-sister

Buck Pond Farm half-sister

Gainesway

half-brother full sister

Glennwood Farm

half-brother

Taylor Made Sales Agency half-sister

Runnymede Farm half-brother

Gainesway

half-brother half-brother half-brother

Hunter Valley Farm

half-brother half-sister

Paramount Sales

half-sister

Eaton Sales half-sister

Mt. Brilliant Farm

half-sister

Greenfield Farm

half-sister

half-brother half-brother half-brother

Warrendale Sales half-brother

Four Star Sales half-sister

half-brother

Blackburn Farm

half-sister

Gainesway

half-sister

Brereton C. Jones / Airdrie Stud half-sister half-sister

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Racing Post Thursday, August 22, 2019

STAKES FORM OF HIPS’ SIBLINGS KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE  BOOK 1, SELECT SESSIONS 13 LOT NUMBER BREEDING SIBLING SIRE 478 1 c More Than Ready-Kobla Cat Bitumen Mineshaft Meshell Elusive Quality 479 Cavallino 1 c Ghostzapper-Lacadena America A.P. Indy 480 1 c Tapit-La Cloche Bellavais Tapit 481 1 c Super Saver-La Comete Munnings Speightstown 484 Classic 1 c Uncle Mo-Lady Godiva Leofric Candy Ride 485 1 f Empire Maker-Lady Pewitt Jaywalk Cross Traffic Danzatrice Dunkirk 487 1 c Bernardini-Lady Struck Gold Da Big Hoss Lemon Drop Kid 490 1 f Cairo Prince-Langcita Hold Her Tight Proud Citizen 492 1 f Pioneerof The Nile-Lawn Party Stellar Agent More Than Ready 494 1 c Uncle Mo-Lemon Kiss Lochte Medaglia d’Oro 496 1 f Frosted-Lenatareese Big Bend Union Rags Miss Chatelaine Pulpit 498 1 f American Pharoah-Leslie’s Lady Beholder Henny Hughes Into Mischief Harlan’s Holiday Mendelssohn Scat Daddy 499 1 c Candy Ride-Letgomyecho J Boys Echo Mineshaft Unbridled Outlaw Unbridled’s Song Dragic Broken Vow 501 1 f American Pharoah-Life Well Lived American Patriot War Front Muqtaser Distorted Humor 503 1 c War Front-Liscanna Brave Anna War Front Hit It A Bomb War Front Threeandfourpence War Front 507 1 c Frosted-Lophorina Lady Alexandra More Than Ready 510 1 c War Front-Love Me Only Storm The Stars Sea The Stars

BEST STAKES RUN BEST RPR G3w G3p

102 104

G3w

102

G3w G2w

101 119

G1w

118

G1w G3p

113 94

G2w

114

G3p G1p G1w

VENDOR RELATION

Mill Ridge Sales

half-brother half-sister

Hill ‘N’ Dale Sales Agency

half-sister

Taylor Made Sales Agency

full sister

Four Star Sales half-brother

Bridie Harrison half-brother

Gainesway

half-sister half-sister

Paramount Sales half-brother

Brereton C. Jones / Airdrie Stud

90 99 115

G3w G3p

104 102

G1w G1w G1w

124 119 122

G3w G3p Lp

113 96 91

G1w G2p

112 101

G1w G1w Lp

112 114 109

Lw

109

G2w

118

half-sister

Warrendale Sales

half-sister

Taylor Made Sales Agency

half-brother

Blackburn Farm

half-brother half-sister

half-sister half-brother half-brother

Betz Thoroughbreds

half-brother half-brother half-sister

Stone Farm

half-brother half-brother

Four Star Sales

full sister full brother full brother

Taylor Made Sales Agency

half-sister

Lane’s End

half-brother

LOT NUMBER BREEDING VENDOR SIBLING SIRE BEST STAKES RUN BEST RPR RELATION Paramount Sales 514 1 c Uncle Mo-Madame Secretary Ta Rib Mr Prospector G1w 110 half-sister Tabdea Topsider Lw 112 half-sister Taylor Made Sales Agency 515 1 f Curlin-Maggie McGowan Denman’s Call Northern Afleet G1w 116 half-brother Taylor Made Sales Agency 519 1 c Pioneerof The Nile-Magical World Guarana Ghostzapper G1w 113 half-sister Magic Dance More Than Ready G2p 0 half-sister 521 Promittere 1 f Carpe Diem-Make A Promise Beau Lane Bloodstock Victor Kalejs Spring At Last Lw 99 half-brother 523 1 f Into Mischief-Malibu Pier Four Star Sales Coasted Tizway Lw 109 half-sister Malibu Stacy Tizway G2p 101 half-sister 524 1 c Candy Ride-Mama Tia Bedouin Bloodstock Southern Honey Colonel John G3w 104 half-sister Cali Thirty Seven Esk endereya Lw 101 half-sister 531 1 c American Pharoah-Maryinsky Paramount Sales Peeping Fawn Danehill G1w 124 half-sister Thewayyouare Kingmambo G1w 117 half-brother Betz Thoroughbreds 535 1 f Runhappy-Meadow Breeze Royal Copy Bodemeister G1p 107 half-brother Taylor Made Sales Agency 539 1 c American Pharoah-Miner’s Secret Coal Front Stay Thirsty G2w 117 half-brother Conquest Titan Birdstone G2p 98 half-brother Taylor Made Sales Agency 540 1 c Pioneerof The Nile-Mining My Own Dullahan Even The Score G1w 125 half-brother Mine That Bird Birdstone G1w 121 half-brother Blackburn Farm 541 1 f Flatter-Miss A. Bomb A Little Bit Sassy More Than Ready G2p 104 half-sister Missle Bomb Tale Of The Cat G3p 85 half-brother Taylor Made Sales Agency 546 1 c Uncle Mo-Miss Macy Sue Liam’s Map Unbridled’s Song G1w 124 half-brother Not This Time Giant’s Causeway G3w 122 half-brother Taylor S Medaglia d’Oro G2p 95 half-sister Taylor Made Sales Agency 547 1 f Medaglia d’Oro-Mo Chuisle Points Offthebench Benchmark G1w 122 half-brother Bench Points Benchmark G3w 104 half-brother Taylor Made Sales Agency 549 1 c Kitten’s Joy-Money Huntress Noble Beauty Kitten’s Joy G3w 99 full sister Katierich Farms 554 1 c Union Rags-My McIntosh Parlor Lonhro G3p 104 half-brother Mill Ridge Sales 556 1 f Honor Code-Myriad Markitoff Giant’s Causeway G2p 107 half-brother 562 1 c Flatter-Need Recruiting Ready Algorithms G3w 105 half-brother

LOT NUMBER BREEDING SIBLING SIRE 563 1 c Quality Road-Nefertiti Engage Into Mischief 564 1 c Speightstown-Nereid Figarella’s Queen Medaglia d’Oro 567 1 c Air Force Blue-Nimue Isomer Cape Blanco

Pictures: Keeneland

BEST STAKES RUN BEST RPR G3w

108

G3p

97

Lp

99

VENDOR RELATION

Woods Edge Farm

half-brother

Lane’s End

half-sister

Taylor Made Sales Agency

half-brother

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Thursday, August 22, 2019 racingpost.com

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