SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2019 TDN NEW STALLIONS: PAIR SHARE TOP BILLING AS BOOK 3 OPENS AT KEENELAND by Jessica Martini PRESERVATIONIST, AT LEXINGTON, KY - A pair of mares sold for matching co-session topping bids of $310,000 as the Keeneland November Breeding AIRDRIE Stock Sale=s Book 3 opened Saturday in Lexington. During the session, 266 head sold for $14,801,200. The average was $55,644, down 16.25% from last year=s Book 3 opener and the median of $44,000 was down 15.38%. With 89 horses reported not sold, the buy-back rate was 25.07%. It was 21.19% a year ago, when 264 head grossed $17,541,000 for an average of $66,443 and a median of $52,000. Patrick Masson purchased Ultimate Cause (Giant=s Causeway) for his family=s Green Lantern Stables for $310,000 from the Bluewater Sales consignment. Lynn Hancock matched that bid later in the session when purchasing Ducru (Broken Vow) on behalf of her family=s Stone Farm from the Runnymede Farm Airdrie Stud has developed a reputation of having the Midas consignment. Cont. p4 Touch when it comes to young, middle-market stallions. Now, with the addition of two multiple Grade I winners-- Preservationist and Divisidero--joining their roster for 2020, their IN TDN EUROPE TODAY ranks have swelled to 11. The TDN=s Katie Ritz caught up with GALILEO’S MAGIC WAND GETS HER GROUP 1 Bret Jones to talk first about Woodward and Suburban winner In winning the Mackinnon S., Magic Wand became Galileo’s Preservationist. 84th Group 1 winner, putting him level best with Danehill. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. KR: Let=s talk first about his conformation. BJ: Preservationist, physically, is a big beautiful horse. He's 16.2 1/2. He was a $485,000 yearling purchase by Centennial Farms, so I think that tells you what sort of physical he is. He=s a very correct and a big, good-moving, beautiful horse that is exactly the type that we try to put in the barn here. KR: Can you talk us through the main points of his pedigree? BJ: The pedigree on Preservationist is absolutely one of the greatest things we can advertise because he's so well-bred, top and bottom. He's by Arch, who's been a fabulous sire, has been a very important sire, as we all know. And on the bottom is that great Emory Hamilton and Helen Alexander family of Chic Shirine. So really it's top and bottom of the best King Ranch blood that there is. The quality there is obviously very evident, and he's a horse that exudes a lot of quality, physically, when you see him. He looks like he comes from special stock and it's because he does. 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And frankly, that was one of our reservations when we first began investigating him, was that we thought, well, this is a late-maturing horse. This is a horse that didn't get good until he was older. That was debunked very quickly when we talked to the Allen Jerkens team. They said as a 2-year-old that this horse was as good or better than anything else they had at the barn, but that he had little setbacks along the way that, unfortunately, kept him from showing his full promise in the afternoons. But the talent was always there. The speed was there and it was more really by happenstance that he was a distance horse later in his career. But this was a very good horse, and seemed to be a very good horse from the start. And the Woodward just showed what kind of a tough horse he was, because he did not have a great trip. He had to really kind of bully himself into a hole that was tough to make and he had the determination to go on and do it and beat some very good horses that day as well. This was a very, very talented horse. He had speed as well as the ability to stretch out, which he did in his two most significant wins. Another thing that really drew us to him was that he could also go three quarters in 1:09 1/5. When he broke his maiden, he ran six furlongs in 1:09 1/5 and got a 3 Ragozin number in Preservationist | Sarah Andrew that performance. I can't think of too many maiden-breaking races that come back with a 3 Ragozin. That talent and, the fact that he could build on that and become a top handicap horse, KR: Let=s start with the Suburban. were great attractions to us. BJ: The Suburban was when he really arrived kind of on the KR: What has been the response from breeders so far? national scene. It was a hugely impressive performance. He was in there against a very good horse, obviously, a Grade I winner BJ: It has been fabulous. He's a very easy horse to sell on the in Catholic Boy. They were nose to nose at the top of the stretch end of a shank. Big, beautiful, exactly the type that the and Preservationist kicked on and won like a really good horse. commercial market likes to see. And that has made our job a lot He really showed everybody that he belonged in that easier. conversation with the best older horses in the country winning off by about four lengths. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • NOVEMBER 10, 2019 KEENOV cont. from p1 Andrew Cary was active as a seller through Select Sales and as a buyer, signing for a pair of mares on behalf of Coteau Grove Farms. AIt=s still strong on quality,@ Cary said of Saturday=s market. AI think there is always a transition from book to book, some of the mares that are in that middle range are a little soft--I=d say in the $40,000-$80,000 range. People are probably not exactly sure what to appraise them at. I think you are still seeing huge demand for quality. And foals are still selling great. I think the momentum is going to continue, but there is always a bit of a feeling-out process when you transfer from the early books and on.@ The Keeneland November sale continues through Nov. 17 with sessions beginning daily at 10 a.m. KEENELAND NOVEMBER SATURDAY - TOP MARES HIP NAME STATUS PRICE ($) 1301 Ultimate Cause i/f City of Light 310,000 (6, Giant=s CausewayBSupreme, by Empire Maker) Consigned by BLuewater Sales LLC, Agent XV Purchased by Green Lantern Stables/Patrick Masson, agent 1433 Ducru i/f Good Magic 310,000 (5, Broken VowBUnion City, by Dixie Union) Consigned by Runnymede Farm, Inc., agent Purchased by Stone Farm 1443 Film Idol i/f Collected 175,000 (8, BernardiniBMiss Du Bois, by Mr. Prospector) Consigned by Runnymede Farm, Inc., agent Purchased by Catherine Parke, Agent for Marc Keller 1256 Stage Direction i/f Street Boss 170,000 (3, Malibu MoonBStage Luck, by Unbridled=s Song) Consigned by Godolphin Purchased by Donna Shively 1455 Golden Amber i/f Good Magic 170,000 (5, GemologistBMiz United States, by Valid Appeal) Consigned by James B.