TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 KEESEP POWERS ON AS TDN LOOK: A YOUNG MAN, AN OLD MAN, A SECOND CHANCE, AND A DREAM by Bill Finley HIGH-DEMAND Cameron Beatty was at that stage in life--young, healthy, athletic, motivated, naive--where he never even imagined the BOOK 3 CONCLUDES possibility that everything he had could be taken away from him. He was the starting quarterback at Freehold Township (NJ) High School and had accepted an offer to play at Fairleigh Dickinson, where he had an academic scholarship. He was going places, and on the fast track. In an instant, everything changed. In 2010, Beatty, now 27, was on his way to the gym to workout when he had a motorcycle accident so serious that it nearly cost him his life. He suffered a brain injury, a ruptured spleen and internal bleeding. At first, the doctors did not realize the extent of the spleen injury and the bleeding it was causing, but when his heart rate dropped to under 20 beats per minute he was rushed into emergency surgery. Cont. p15 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Hip 2119, a Quality Road colt, topped the Book 3 closer Monday IMAGINATION MATCHES PURSE ON SAUDI CUP Keeneland photo UNDERCARD Five international races, with combined purses totaling $6.8 by Jessica Martini million, comprise the undercard of the Feb. 29 $20-million Saudi LEXINGTON, KY - The Keeneland September Yearling Sale Cup. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. concluded its two-day Book 3 section with a day of frenetic bidding Monday in Lexington. A colt by Quality Road became the day=s highest-priced offering when selling to bloodstock agent Justin Casse for $625,000. The yearling was one of five to sell for $400,000 or over on the day. A total of 524 yearlings sold in Book 3--which encompassed the auction=s sixth and seventh overall sessions--for a gross of $56,781,500. The average was $108,362 and the median was $80,000. The buy-back rate was 29.1%. With a slightly different format a year ago, the 2018 Book 3 was held over the auction=s seventh and eighth sessions and saw 560 yearlings sell for $41,963,900. The average was $74,936 and the median was $50,000. The section=s top price was $450,000 and there were five yearlings to sell for $400,000 or over. Bidding was still fast and furious late Monday evening when Casse made his session-topping buy, securing hip 2119 from the KatieRich Farms consignment. Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Tuesday, September 17, 2019 Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN News and Features Editor Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Amie Morosco Advertising Assistant/Dir. Of Distribution Rachel McCaffrey Photographer/Photo Editor Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] Social Media Strategist Brothers John and Jason Servis stand outside John's barn at Parx on Monday morning Justina Severni after Maximum Security (New Year’s Day) shipped from Monmouth Park to put in his final work ahead of Saturday's $1,000,000 GI Pennsylvania Derby. | Bill Denver/Equi-Photo Director of Customer Service Vicki Forbes [email protected] TIZNOW COLT TO WINCHELL 7 Marketing Manager It has been a busy first three books of the Keeneland September sale Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen for Winchell Thoroughbreds, having purchased no fewer than 13 Director of Information Technology yearlings alone and in partnership. The operation’s racing manager Ray Villa David Fiske went to $525,000 Monday afternoon for a colt by [email protected] Tiznow–Catch the Moon (Malibu Moon) from the Warrendale Sales Bookkeeper consignment. Terry May [email protected] GLASS IN ACTION FOR THE WESTS 8 WORLDWIDE INFORMATION Maximum Security’s owners Gary and Mary West have been even International Editor Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN busier than Team Winchell, their bloodstock adviser Ben Glass [email protected] having signed for 18 horses at Keeneland. The couple added a European Editor $500,000 American Pharoah colt to their collection Monday. Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 17 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 Keeneland September cont. felt Book 3 was a good place for their yearlings to stand out. AI am surprised by the demand that is still here,@ Casse said. AI love Book 3,@ Goodman said. AWe just felt really good about AI=ve been selling some and trying to buy some. You=ve got to be Book 3. We thought they would stand out more here. I think if prepared to pay for the ones you like. Generally, you=ve got to you have a decent horse, the buyers are here. This whole sale jump through all the hoops and has been incredible the whole way do everything right, but I=m through. And I guess a lot of people finding that even horses that didn=t get what they wanted in Book make three out of four hoops, 1 and 2 and they are still here. So or who check most of the we=re happy about that.@ proverbial boxes, are getting The first consignment of Everett done for a good price. We have Dobson=s Candy Meadows Sales had probably the best high-end its biggest sale to date when selling a market that we=ve ever had, so filly by Nyquist for $425,000. there is going to be a trickle AIt=s all about the product,@ said down from there. It=s nice to Candy Meadows Senior Vice see. I just hope it stays this way President Matt Lyons. AIf you have for a little while. It doesn=t the right one, they are here for it. even have to get better--if it And it doesn=t matter what book. I just stays this way for a little think it shows the strength of the while.@ Keeneland photo market. Books 1 and 2 were strong Greg Goodman=s Mt. Brilliant Farm led consignors with more and a lot of people didn=t get horses, so now the good ones than one sold on the day by average. The operation sold four might be sticking out a little bit more and people are zeroing in yearlings for an average of $350,000, including a $500,000 son on them.@ of American Pharoah. Goodman echoed many consignors who Cont. p4 How do you live up to the glory of your past? you work like hell. 2020 Breeding Season Trailer TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 17 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 KEESEP cont. But he=s a Quality Road and we=re in the second day of Book 3, With six sessions still to go, the September gross passed the so he=s going to stand out like a sore thumb. The pedigree is $300-million mark Monday, with 1,309 yearlings selling for an going to stick out pretty well here. It=s an active female family by aggregate of $314,829,500. This is the third straight year the one of the best sires in the world and he came from a good sale has passed that milestone. Prior to the 2017 edition, the farm. I think he=ll be a beautiful horse once he gets into last time the auction hit that mark was 2008--the year of the training.@ global economic crash. The 2018 gross of $377,130,400 was the highest since 2007. Cont. p5 The Keeneland September sale continues through Sunday with sessions beginning daily at 10 a.m. For complete results, visit www.keeneland.com. Casse Calls for Back-Up on Quality Road Colt As Book 3 steamed aggressively towards its conclusion Monday evening at Keeneland, bloodstock agent Justin Casse made the day=s highest bid, going to $625,000 to acquire a colt by Quality Road. Casse admitted he had to make a quick call to extend his budget before ultimately signing the ticket on hip 2119 in the name of Team Casse. AI was given a budget and, once it went past that, I had to make a late phone call,@ Casse said. AAs the horse got closer up and I got to see him more, he really presented himself well and he looked the part, so I had a feeling that he was going to bring a little more than we had first hoped. Justin Casse | Keeneland photo TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 17 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 KEESEP cont. Bred and consigned by KatieRich Farms, the yearling is out of multiple stakes winner Miss Red Delicious (Empire Maker) and is a half to graded winner Nootka Sound (Lonhro {Aus}). AHe was a standout here,@ KatieRich=s Tammy Ingebritson explained of the colt=s placement in Book 3. AHe was a very nice colt, probably a little immature for Book 1. So he just looked like he would be the right type for Book 3. He got a lot of attention here.@ KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLINGS KatieRich owner Larry Doyle was enjoying the standout sale MONDAY’S TOP 11 LOTS and gave credit for the success to the farm=s staff.