Today’s Edition

by Jessica Martini and Brian DiDonato Book 2 of the Keeneland November sale wrapped up in Lexington Tuesday with continued year-over-year strength based on average and median. A total of 224 horses changed hands during the sale’s fourth session for a combined $25,013,000. The average of $111,665 was up 7.91% from last year’s corresponding figure...

Keeneland has a smallish grandstand, had never hosted a Breeders’ Cup before, can be hard to get in and out of on even normal racing days and its home, Lexington, isn’t a metropolis blessed with ample hotel space and numerous restaurants on the scale of a Los Angeles or New York. Yet, from the owners...

The Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale continued Wednesday in Lexington with a strong first Book 2 session highlighted by a $1.15-million unraced 2-year-old daughter of Tapit. For the session, 229 horses sold for $30,788,000. During last year’s Book 2 opener, 271 head grossed $29,701,000. The average rose 22.67% to $134,445 and the median was up...

In June, 2014, I questioned the wisdom of the Breeders’ Cup’s decision to award the 2015 World Championships to Keeneland. No knock on Keeneland, which does a wonderful job of putting on its racing and sales every year, but I wondered aloud if the track was too small and the town was too small to...

First, the Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland. There were a few minor glitches but the overwhelming consensus was they pulled it off, and how. For sales regulars any kind of racing, even the regular meet, is disconcerting, but this had even more potential for things going wrong. But it was so good regular racegoers were saying...

‘Who will be king?’ That was the question posed on banners on the big screens along the home stretch, but in the end the coronation was for a queen, as Michelle Payne reigned over Flemington with an historic first victory for a female jockey in the G1 Emirates Melbourne Cup aboard 100-1 chance Prince Of...

by Jessica Martini, Steve Sherack and Brian DiDonato Hard Not to Like (Hard Spun), who sold for $1.5 million a year ago, added a pair of Grade I wins to her resume this term and returned to the Keeneland sales ring to bring a session-topping $2.2 million during Monday’s first session of the November Breeding...

Of course everybody knows that the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile has been a pretty disastrous guide to the Kentucky Derby, with Street Sense being the only one of the first 31 winners to have gone on to success on the first Saturday in May. But has the race fared any better as a guide to stallion...