Auctions at Keeneland 2016 Keeneland Sales Schedule September 12-25 Yearlings November 8-19 Breeding Stock January 9-13, 2017 Horses of All Ages Keeneland/Coyle Keeneland/Coyle Keeneland/Photos by Z The world’s leading Thoroughbred who won classic 3-year-old races begins on Map (Las Vegas Dirt Mile-G1); Mongolian auction house, Keeneland sells more page 267.) Saturday (TwinSpires Turf Sprint-G1); Ny- champions and stakes winners than any Additional successful Keeneland sales quist (Sentient Jet Juvenile-G1); Runhappy other sales company while offering state-of- graduates this year (as of July 25) include (TwinSpires Sprint-G1); Stephanie’s Kitten the-art facilities and a range of amenities for other Grade/Group 1 winners Beholder, (Filly and Mare Turf-G1) and Stopcharging- its diverse international clients. Bradester, Brody’s Cause, Carina Mia, Catch maria (Distaff-G1). SALES Highly prized North American Thor- a Glimpse, Cavorting, Celestine, Curalina, Nyquist and Runhappy received Eclipse oughbreds form the foundation bloodlines Divisidero, Giulia, Greenzapper, Illuminant, Awards for their 2015 campaigns. Another for Thoroughbreds in Central and South Lord Nelson, Melantonin, Midnight Storm, Keeneland sales alumni who was named a America, Asia, South Africa, Russia and In- Miss Temple City, Mshawish, Off the Tracks, 2015 champion was multiple Grade 1 win- dia, and breeders and owners from around Order of St George (IRE), Queen Pearl, Taris ner Beholder. the world travel to Lexington to buy horses and Weep No More. at the Keeneland sales. Each year, buyers The September Sale produced a number History from nearly every state and as many as 50 of these major winners, including Order of St The concept of Keeneland serving as a countries participate in Keeneland’s three George, who became a Group 1 winner in sales facility and a race track was expressed annual auctions: September Yearling, No- England during the prestigious Royal Ascot in its original prospectus created in the vember Breeding Stock and January Horses meet. Other successful September Sale alum- mid-1930s. The first auction was held in of All Ages sales. ni there were Hawkbill and Lady Aurelia. the Keeneland Paddock on April 25, 1938, The success of Keeneland sales gradu- In Canada, September Sale graduate Sir under the management of E.J. Tranter and ates continues to build. Keeneland has sold Dudley Digges won the $1 million Queen’s his Lexington representative, Thomas Crom- 20 Kentucky Derby (G1) winners, 22 Preak- Plate. Horses from Keeneland sales also well. A total of 31 horses grossed $24,885, ness (G1) winners and 19 Belmont (G1) won stakes this year in Australia, Brazil, for an average of $802.74. winners. In 2016, Keeneland sales gradu- Dubai, France, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Keeneland began holding annual sales ates swept the Triple Crown when Nyquist Korea, Panama, Puerto Rico and Russia. in 1943. Prior to World War II, many Central won the Kentucky Derby Presented by Keeneland sales graduates also include Kentucky breeders sent their yearlings each Yum! Brands (G1), Exaggerator took the 88 horses that have won 95 races during the summer to the Fasig-Tipton sale in Sarato- Preakness (G1) and Creator captured the Breeders’ Cup World Championships (See ga, New York. But a wartime restriction on Belmont (G1). Meanwhile, sales graduates page 269.) Seven of them reached the win- rail transport forced breeders to keep their have excelled on the world stage, winning ner’s circle during the 2015 event, held for yearlings at home, prompting the inaugu- the Epsom Derby (G1) and its French and the first time at Keeneland: Catch a Glimpse ral summer sale, which was conducted by Irish counterparts. (A list of sales graduates won the Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1); Liam’s Fasig-Tipton and held under a tent in the Rev. 8/4/16 2016 Fall Keeneland Media Guide | Sales 215 ® Keeneland Paddock. Beginning August 9, the three-day sale was front-page news in Bob Elliston | Vice President of Racing and Sales the Lexington Herald. Fred W. Hooper pur- Biography can be found on page 14. chased his first yearling at the sale, paying $10,200 for a colt by Sir Gallahad III. Named Hoop, Jr., the colt went on to win the 1945 Kentucky Derby. Fasig-Tipton elected not to hold the 1944 yearling sale at Keeneland, so Hal Price Headley and A.B. Hancock Sr. conceived a co-op organization, the Breeders’ Sales Company, to continue the sale in Lexington. From that sale came both juvenile champi- ons of 1945: the filly Beaugay and the colt Star Pilot. A total of 437 horses sold for Mark Maronde | Director of Sales Development $2,286,000, a record total for a yearling sale. Yearlings were sold as part of a fall mixed Mark Maronde brings more than 20 years of experience in the sale from 1944 through the late 1940s, and Thoroughbred industry to the Keeneland sales team, which he joined sold in a separate fall yearling sale begin- in April 2009. ning in 1950. In 1960, the yearling sale was He assists with recruiting and marketing efforts for the Keeneland moved to September. The September Year- sales and serves as a member of the yearling inspection team. ling Sale became Keeneland’s only yearling Maronde spent five years in the bloodstock division of WinStar Farm prior to Keeneland. He honed his inspection and sales recruiting skills sale beginning in 2003 with the discontinua- as National Field Representative for Barretts’ Equine Ltd. (1996–2009) tion of the July Selected Yearling Sale. and with the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (2007–2009). He September Sale also worked for Cromwell Bloodstock from 1990–1995. The September Sale is the global mar- ketplace for Thoroughbred yearlings. Year after year, major buyers from around the world travel to Keeneland to find horses Geoffrey G. Russell | Director of Sales Operations capable of making history such as recent September Sale graduates and Horses of the Geoffrey Russell has served as Keeneland’s Director of Sales since Year Havre de Grace, Zenyatta and Curlin June 2001. and 2015 champions Beholder, Nyquist and Born in Dublin, Ireland, Russell gained early experience at Coolmore Runhappy. As such, the September Sale is Stud and as a bid spotter at Goffs. He came to the U.S. in 1982, first working at Fasig-Tipton Sales and then at Elmendorf Farm. He the chief barometer of the state of the Thor- returned to Fasig-Tipton as Vice President of Fasig-Tipton Appraisals oughbred industry. and Director of Sales Administration prior to joining Keeneland in The record for the highest price paid 1996 as Assistant Director of Sales to Rogers Beasley. at the September Sale is the $11.7 million Russell represents Keeneland on the Sales Integrity Task Force, for Meydan City, a Kingmambo colt, in International Catalogue Standards Committee (NA) (ICSC), SALES 2006. The highest price for a filly is the International Grading and Race Planning Advisory Committee (IRPAC), and is Vice Chairman $4.4 million for the Storm Cat filly Moon’s of the Society of International Thoroughbred Auctioneers (SITA). He is also on the board of Whisper in 2000. the Grayson-Jockey Club Foundation. At the 2015 sale, robust trade generated solid gains led by a record-equaling median price of $50,000 and the sale of 11 seven- figure yearlings. A colt by leading North American sire Tapit brought the sale- Thomas J. Thornbury | Associate Director of Sales Operations topping price of $2.1 million. Tom Thornbury was named Keeneland’s Associate Director of Sales in June 2002. November Sale In his position, Thornbury acts as liaison to consignor interests, The November Breeding Stock Sale – cultivates relationships with horsemen in emerging racing markets, which catalogs broodmare, broodmare and serves as a member of the yearling inspection team. prospects, weanlings, stallions, stallion Thornbury grew up on the farm owned by his father, John prospects and shares – is the world’s most Thornbury, and partner Dr. Robert Copelan, where he was involved important auction of its type in terms of to- in training and farm management, and assisted in equine orthopedic tal sales and average. Some of the global surgery. Thornbury spent nearly 10 years at Airdrie Stud, owned by industry’s top broodmares and broodmare former Governor and Mrs. Brereton C. Jones, working first as yearling prospects have sold at the sale. manager and later as general manager. The 2015 November Sale immediately He is a past president of the Thoroughbred Club of America and the Kentucky followed the Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland. Thoroughbred Farm Managers’ Club, and formerly served on the board of the Kentucky Leading the 22 horses sold for seven figures Thoroughbred Association and Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders. was champion Take Charge Brandi, whose purchase price of $6 million made her the 216 2016 Fall Keeneland Media Guide | Sales Rev. 8/4/16 ® most expensive Thoroughbred sold at pub- lic auction in the world during the year. For Ryan Mahan | Director of Auctioneers the second consecutive November Sale, a North American record price for a weanling Ryan Mahan considered following his stepfather, Dr. Robert was set when a filly by War Front out of Copelan, into veterinary medicine. Take Charge Lady (Take Charge Brandi’s Instead, he finds himself in the auction stand at the leading second dam) sold for $3.2 million. Thoroughbred sales company in the world. The November Sale has created many Mahan initially had his own auction company but in 1977 he came memorable moments, including the 2005 to work at Keeneland as a bid spotter and later chief announcer for sale of champion and broodmare prospect several years following the departure of Tom Hammond.