Intraday Sales Archive

The lone mare in the Keeneland November sale in foal to Sea the Stars (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}), a Sadler's Wells half-sister to Giant's Causeway and Freud, etc., was hammered down to Frank and Laura Jane Lyon's Summer Wind Farm for $2.1 million. Love Me Only was consigned by Eaton Sales, agent. It was 15 years ago that the Coolmore braintrust went to $2.6 million for Mariah's Storm (Rahy), a six-time winner at the Grade II and Grade III level and Grade I placed. The foal she was carrying at...

Wyola (10, Sadler's Wells--Rubies From Burma, by Forty Niner), the dam of G2 Gimcrack S. hero Approve (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}) and offered carrying a full sibing to that talented runner, was knocked down to Northern Farm's Katsumi Yoshida in the early hours of trade Tuesday at the Tattersalls Mare Sale in Newmarket. The 10-year-old mare was consigned by Newtown Stud. Yoshida outlasted all potential rivals, including Michael Goodbody and Charlie Gordon-Watson. "She will go to Japan to foal," said Katsumi Yoshida's son Shunsuke. "We have not decided which stallion...

Magnificent Honour (A.P. Indy), a full-sister to champion Rags to Riches and a half to Classic winner Jazil (Seeking the Gold), kicked off Tuesday's second session of the Keeneland January Sale in style, eliciting a bid of $600,000 from Blandford Bloodstock's Tom Goff. The unraced 10-year-old, offered by Paramount Sales, sold on a Mar. 26 cover to Giant's Causeway. Magnificent Honor is a daughter of Broodmare of the Year Better Than Honour (Deputy Minister). She is also a half to Breeders' Cup Marathon winner Man of Iron (Giant's Causeway) and...

A filly by Empire Maker, the last horse offered during Tuesday's first session of the OBS March Selected Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training, proved dearest on the afternoon with Frank Fletcher signing the ticket at $485,000. By the sire of Triple Crown hopefuls and TDN Rising Stars Bodemeister and Empire Way and the top 3-year-old filly Grace Hall, hip 180--already named Ado--was bred by Claiborne Farm out of their outstanding three-time Grade III winner Trip (Lord at War {Arg}). She did her best to advertise herself with a strong eighth...

Coolmore Stud came out swinging early at Tuesday's Inglis Easter Yearling sale in Sydney to halter a striking daughter of Coolmore stallion Fastnet Rock (Ire) for A$625,000. The filly is out of the Group 1-winning mare Absolut Glam (Aus) (Snowland {Aus}), who was purchased for A$950,000 carrying this foal in utero at the 2010 Easter Broodmare Sale.

It took some doing, but bloodstock agent Donato Lanni saw off a determined challenge from Whisper Hill Farm's Mandy Pope and her advisor Chris Brothers to secure the top-priced horse thus far at OBS April, a First Samurai filly who was knocked down for $650,000. Eddie Woods consigned the daughter of GSP Refugee (Unaccounted For), who had been purchased by Hubert Guy for just $23,000 at Keeneland September

It was nearly 10 p.m. on the East Coast when John Ferguson, bidding on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, struck for a well-made colt by Darley sire Street Cry (Ire), outlasting some game rivals inside the Finney Sales Pavilion on a winning bid of $1.2 million. All of the bidding was inside until Ferguson jumped in from the area near the rear walking ring with the first seven-figure offering of the evening. Consigned by John Sikura's Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency and bred in partnership by Hill 'n' Dale, the...

Hip 402 made some noise late during Thursday's session when John Moynihan wound up making the winning $700,000 bid. The light grey colt is the fourth foal from multiple stakes placed Tempting Note (Editor's Note) and third straight produce by Gainesway stallion Tapit. The first, Tempted to Tapit, hit the board in both the GII Risen Star S. and GIII Sunland Derby in 2010, and the second is Dance Card, a $750,000 purchase at FTFFEB in 2011 who has paired up wins at Belmont and Saratoga this season. The yearling...

Airlie Stud's Hip 245, a daughter of Galileo, sells for ﾀ340,000 to Hugo Merry Bloodstock. The April-foaled grey is from the family of Champion distaffers Albanova (GB) (Alzao) and Alborada (GB) (Alzao).

A handful of hours after picking up GI Breeders' Cup Filly/Mare Turf winner Zagora (Fr) (Green Tune) and GISW Eden's Moon (Malibu Moon) for a combined $4 million Monday night at Fasig-Tipton, Nicolas de Watrigant was back at it early Tuesday morning for his Mandore International Agency, going to $2.8 million for GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup winner Harmonious (m, 5, Dynaformer). Consigned on behalf of the mare's breeders Pam and Marty Wygod and their daughter Emily, Harmonious was a leading filly of her generation on the grass, with...