2024 Keeneland January Sale Catalogs 1,401 Horses
Keeneland has cataloged 1,401 horses for the 67th January Horses of All Ages Sale, which will cover four sessions Jan. 8-11, 2024.
Keeneland has cataloged 1,401 horses for the 67th January Horses of All Ages Sale, which will cover four sessions Jan. 8-11, 2024.
Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation today announced that the Keeneland Association has pledged $100,000 over the next four years as part of its continued commitment to support Grayson's vital equine safety and welfare research.
In an auction highlighted by a pair of $350,000 acquisitions by bloodstock agent Case Clay, the one-day Keeneland November Horses of Racing Age Sale concluded Nov. 17 with across-the-board declines compared to the 2022 sale.
The Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale concluded Nov. 16, with the sale taking a 12.7% downtick in gross from the previous year, as 2,219 head sold and a gross of $188,836,000 was recorded.
Owner Rick Dawson announced via a text message to media that 2022 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Rich Strike's withdrawal from the Nov. 17 Keeneland Horses of Racing Age Sale. He was to be consigned as a stallion prospect.
Precipitate, a 5-year-old daughter of Pioneerof the Nile in foal to Tacitus, sold to James Wyenandt for $80,000 to be the highest-priced purchase of the Nov. 15 next-to-last session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.
Keeneland has supplemented 10 horses, including 2023 stakes winner Lady Lowery, to its November Horses of Racing Age Sale on Nov. 17.
The concluding session of Book 3, Nov. 12, at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale ticked along to a workmanlike pace, with the KatieRich Farms consigned mare, Taking Aim, topping the day's action at $270,000.
The opening session of Book 3, Nov. 11, at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale was highlighted by Stoneway Farm, seeing the bidding to $425,000 for the mare Chameleon, who sold in foal to Practical Joke.
The closing session of Book 2 at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale on Nov. 10 was headlined by the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1)-placed Three Witches, who took bidding to $1.7 million with Rifa Mustang Europe victorious.