Atmosphere and electricity return to the ring in frenetic conclusion to Book 1 With a barrage of bidding firepower lighting up the board at Keeneland, the final minutes of the September yearling sale’s elite Book 1 were so electric on Monday that buyers and sellers alike could almost forget about the coronavirus cloud that has... Read More

In most other years, the numbers generated by the opening session of the Keeneland September sale, the world’s largest yearling marketplace, would have been cause for general alarm, if not the beginning stages of panic. For starters, more than 51 per cent of the 224 horses cataloged for Sunday’s session were withdrawn or listed as... Read More

Two-time Australian Group 1 winner Con Te Partiro (Scat Daddy) will add an international flavour to one of the world’s premier bloodstock sales, Book 1 of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, when she is offered in Lexington on November 9. It will come two days after the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained mare contests... Read More

The purchase was another sale-topper for the red-hot Ecurie des Monceaux The third and final day of Arqana’s rearranged Select Yearling Sale was dedicated to part two of the catalogue, with a handful of lots realising three-figure sales on a day which is traditionally a chance for home trainers and agents to stock up. Trainer... Read More

A trio of seven-figure lots changed hands at the Select Sale on Thursday Seven-figure lots came like London buses at Arqana on Thursday as, after a somewhat sticky opening session, an anxious wait for the Select Sale’s first millionaire yearling was ended when three arrived within quick succession.  Leading the way was the Dubawi (Dubai... Read More