FORT LARNED FTK July yearlings sell for up to $117,000 AAAAA SSSSASS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2016 WWW.BLOODHORSE.COM S S S S S SALES UPDATE IN TODAY’S EDITION Havre de Grace's Colt an RNA Mix-Up 5 Eaton’s Tapit Colt Attracts Attention 7 Shanghai Bobby's Progeny Look Like Athletes 9 Anderson's Rare Journey With Runhappy 11 European Challengers Arrive at Woodbine 12 Da Big Hoss Leads Week's Equibase Figures 13 Churchill Opens September Meet Sept. 16 14 New Approach Offspring Land Well in SA 15 Deep Impact Extends Powerful Legacy 16 ANNE M. EBERHARDT ANNE M. Results 17 Baccari Bloodstock sold the new sale topper, a $1.2 million Tapit colt Entries 18 out of Hooh Why Leading Lists 21 TOP PRICE AT KEENELAND HITS $1.2 MILLION By Ron Mitchell he Keeneland September yearling sale's second Tsession Sept. 13 offered plenty of excitement: a new sale topper at $1.2 million, an expensive buy- back that turned out to be a mistake, two high-priced yearlings sold by Airdrie Stud, and a continued uptick in prices. MAJESTICPERFECTIONHARLAN'S HOLIDAY — ACT SO NOBLE The new topper, a Tapit colt out of the grade I winner Hooh Why, was one of the last horses through the ring and was purchased by J. J. Crupi’s Crupi’s New Castle Farm for $1.2 million. Consigned by Baccari Bloodstock, the colt is out of a mare who won the 2009 Ashland Stakes (gr. I) The Brilliant at Keeneland. The colt was bred in Kentucky by SF Bloodstock. SYNDERGAARD "He just had a beautiful body. He had a big walk, Highest Beyer of Any Saratoga 2YO in 2016 and I fell in love with him," Crupi said of the colt. "We weren't leaving here without him. It's going to the CHELSEA DURAND/NYRA racetrack. He'll be broken at Crupi's New Castle Farm A LEADING 2YO SIRE OF 2016 Already with TWO Undefeated Stakes Winning Juveniles and then move on probably to Todd Pletcher." Overall, the sale continued on an uptick from CAIRO PRINCE • CREATIVE CAUSE • HAYNESFIELD • INCLUDE ISTAN • MAJESTICPERFECTION • SUMMER FRONT 2015, with 119 yearlings sold Tuesday for gross re- Think About It! ceipts $37,959,000, compared with the $42,965,000 (continued on page 3) BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE smartphone app PAGE 1 OF 22 Download the FREE smartphone app TOP PRICE AT KEENELAND HITS $1.2 MILLION Trick) and a half brother to grade I winners Include (continued from page 1) Me Out and Check the Label. He was purchased by Japan-based Shadai Farm. total in 2015 for 142 yearlings during the second The third and final session of Book 1 begins at 11 session. The session average increased 5.4% to a.m. (EDT) Wednesday, Sept. 14. BH $318,983 from $302,570 a year ago, and the median rose 18.4% to $290,000 from $245,000. The 54 hors- es that did not sell represented a buyback rate of 31.2%, nearly identical to the 31.7% rate in 2015. Keeneland 2016 September Yearling Sale After two sessions for a slimmed down Book 1 Day 2 Top Hips from last year, Keeneland has sold 227 horses for Hip Sex, Sire—Dam Sale Price $72,490,000. At the same point in 2015, 292 had 399 c, ylg, Tapit—Hooh Why $1,200,000 changed hands for receipts of $87,607,000. The Buyer: J.J. Crupi, agent for Crupi's New Castle Farm Consignor: Baccari Bloodstock cumulative average of $319,339 represents a gain of 207 c, ylg, Tapit—Believe You Can $900,000 6.4% over the two-day average of $300,024 last year, Buyer: William Mack & Robert Baker and the cumulative median is up 12% to $280,000 Consignor: Brereton C. Jones/Airdrie Stud 305 c, ylg, War Front—Don't Trick Her $900,000 from $250,000. The cumulative RNA rate is 33.4% Buyer: Shadai Farm (31.5% in 2015). Consignor: Brereton C. Jones/Airdrie Stud 356 f, ylg, Speightstown—General Consensus $800,000 Keeneland sales director Geoffrey Russell said the Buyer: Shadwell Estate Co. Day 2 results showed a continuing reluctance by buy- Consignor: Paramount Sales, agent for Sierra Farm ers to go beyond $1 million for a yearling, but noted 298 f, ylg, Medaglia d'Oro—Distorted Passion $750,000 Buyer: OXO Equine that 25 horses sold in the $500,000-$999,999 range, Consignor: Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent for Aaron compared with 18 last year. & Marie Jones 347 c, ylg, Scat Daddy—Fools in Love $750,000 A colt that could have topped the auction and was Buyer: M.V. Magnier one of the most highly anticipated offerings at the Consignor: Lane's End sale—a son of War Front out of Horse of the Year 374 c, ylg, Tapit—Grand Prayer $700,000 Buyer: Hidden Brook Farm, agent Havre de Grace—was bought back by Mandy Pope’s Consignor: Gainesway Whisper Hill Farm for $1.9 million, apparently by mis- 388 c, ylg, Tapit—Hidden Expression $685,000 Buyer: Lane's End take. Russell said the RNA mix-up was between Pope Consignor: Gainesway and her consignor. (See story on page 5) 209 c, ylg, Tapit—Belle of Perintown $650,000 The day’s co-second-highest price of $900,000 was Buyer: Lothenbach Stables Consignor: Summerfield, agent for Stonestreet Bred paid for yearlings from Airdrie Stud, the Midway, Ky., & Raised nursery owned by former Kentucky Gov. Brereton 346 c, ylg, Pioneerof the Nile—Flat Screen $650,000 Buyer: Bob Baffert, agent C. Jones. The first was a Tapit colt out of Believe you Consignor: Woods Edge Farm Can, whose eight wins included the Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) for owner-breeder Jones. The second yearling was a War Front colt out of Don't Trick Her (by Mazel BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2016 PAGE 3 OF 22 smartphone app ROMANS FARM—Well-located 105 acre horse STONECROFT FARM—Gently rolling pastures, farm in the immediate area of Juddmonte's mature trees and landscaping provide the back- yearling division, the Kentucky Horse Park, and drop for this lovely working horse farm in Shelby Fasig-Tipton. 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Reduced to $2,399,000. the swimming pool and farm! $2,350,000. www.kyhorsefarms.com 518 East Main Street ♦ Lexington, Kentucky 40508 ♦ (859) 255-3657 Download the FREE smartphone app SALES UPDATE HAVRE DE GRACE'S COLT AN RNA MIX-UP By Erin Shea and Claire Novak he morning of Sept. 13 dawned bright and clear Tfor Timber Town Farm's T. Wayne Sweezey, as he prepared to sell a War Front colt out of Horse of the Year Havre de Grace at the Keeneland September yearling sale on behalf of Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm. EBERHARDT ANNE M. "What I like about (sales) is the unknown," Hip 383, a War Front colt out of Horse of the Year Havre de Sweezey said outside Barn 8, where the colt, Hip Grace, was a $1.9 million RNA 383, was waiting in the wings. "Because if you're taken the responsibility for it, but it is what it is, good, you're confident, and you're a veteran, when we can't go back and change it. So what I would an unknown happens you can handle it pretty well." like to say is: I apologize to the agents who Sweezey didn't know he'd be putting that state- thought we were trying to take advantage of ment into practice by the end of the day, when a them, we certainly were not." mix-up with the reserve price caused the colt to RNA Pope owns Havre de Grace's 2-year-old filly by at $1.9 million.