SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2020 KEESEP STARTS SUNDAY, BREEDERS= CUP BACK TO KEENELAND IN 2022, PURSES MAINTAINED IN 2020 RIGHT ON TIME The Breeders= Cup will return to Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky. as the host site for the 2022 Breeders= Cup World Championships, the Breeders= Cup announced Saturday. Keeneland, which is also scheduled to host this year=s World Championships Nov. 6-7, will hold the 39th Breeders= Cup Nov. 4-5, 2022. It will be the third time the Breeders= Cup has been held at Keeneland since 2015. Del Mar will remain the host of the 2021 event. The announcement of Keeneland as host of the 2022 championships was made in conjunction with two other pieces of news: first, attendance at this year=s event will be limited to the connections of race participants and essential staff, and without fans on-site, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Cont. p6 Keeneland sales grounds | Keeneland photo IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Jessica Martini MAGICAL TAKES CHAMPION THRILLER LEXINGTON, KY - While the coronavirus pandemic wreaked Magical (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) turned the tables on Ghaiyyath havoc with sales across the globe from March through August, (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) to record back-to-back wins in the G1 Irish the calendar will return to some semblance of normalcy when Champion S. the Keeneland September Yearling Sale kicks off right on Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. schedule in Lexington Sunday at noon. ASo many sales companies in the Northern Hemisphere have had to rearrange some things, but we have been very fortunate that the September sale is taking place in September at Keeneland,@ said Keeneland=s Director of Sales Operations Geoffrey Russell. AWe are resilient and I think we=ve had great cooperation from our industry,@ added Keeneland=s President Elect Shannon Arvin. AI think people are so happy to be here. I think people are happy to be back with a little bit of normalcy, even if we are all wearing masks.@ Making sure the mammoth yearling auction would be able to go on as scheduled has been a months-long project for the sales company. AWe started talking in March and we called the meetings >What ifs,=@ Russell said. AEverything was changing all the way to August. It=s been such a movable thing, it=s been an unbelievable experience.@ Cont. p3 LORD NELSON $325,000 Colt at F-T Selected I've never seen a horse with a more athletic walk. He looks like a Bengal tiger in motion. Lord Nelson was brilliant on the track and you're seeing that brilliance now in the sales ring. -John Fort Don't Miss His First Yearlings At Keeneland. $60 million for registered New York-breds New York has the highest purses at over $182 million per year, giving New York owners more opportunity. Look for your New York-bred yearling at Keeneland September Today - Sept. 25 New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc. 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Those meetings included discussions with consignors about To compensate, Keeneland has expanded its outdoor bidding ways to alleviate congestion at the sales barns and those options. conversations seemed to bear fruit with action steady but not AWe are going to have two bid spotters in the back show ring, overwhelming on the grounds in the two days leading up to the normal two bid spotters in the back ring and the regular bid Sunday=s first of two Book 1 sessions. spotters in the pavilion,@ Russell explained. AWe=ve had an increased number of farm visits prior to the Food service has been moved from the pavilion to the track up sale and the breeders have embraced that,@ Russell said. AI think the hill. that has worked really well and will help because we were very AAll of the food is up in the first floor of the grandstand and we concerned about social distancing and everybody showing up on have laid out the saddling paddocks with tables and chairs so the grounds at the same time and wanting to look at the same people can sit up there, too,@ Russell said. ATelevisions will be on horses. So if farm visits could somehow alleviate the first looks, everywhere, so they can watch the sale up there.@ we thought that would make it a little easier [at the sales barns]. Keeneland was part of group of industry stakeholders lobbying I spent the morning at the barns and it=s been business as usual. U.S. government officials to allow foreign buyers to attend the People have been very courteous to each other. There doesn=t sale, despite a travel ban on people traveling from several seem to be people on top of one another. We=ve spaced out the countries. While it was announced Friday that the ban will end consignments and we=ve encouraged buyers to think out of the Monday, bloodstock agents like Kerri Radcliffe, direct from last box and not all start at barn 1 and go to barn 2 and 3. They can week=s Arqana sale, were on the grounds Saturday morning start at barn 19 and go down. Reservations at certain after receiving waivers to enter the country. Cont. p4 consignments have worked as well. I think we=ve learned things out of this that might become part of the industry in the future.@ Keeneland=s sale pavilion, traditionally a busy hive of activity-- both commercial and social--on sales days, will be limited to 40% capacity throughout the two-week auction and buyers will be TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • SEPTEMBER 13, 2020 KEESEP cont. at Keeneland in the coming days. AThere was a presidential travel ban on people coming from AThe Koreans and Japanese don=t have an issue coming into Europe, from England and Ireland where a lot of buyers come our country, the issue might be when they go back to their from, so we worked closely with country,@ Russell explained. AThe Senator [Mitch] McConnell=s Koreans usually come for the office and Congressman [Andy] second week, so I haven=t heard Barr=s office and Ambassador about them yet. But we have [Kelly] Craft, we=ve called on all three Japanese groups here. We of our friends to try to help us,@ have a group of Russians Arvin said. AThere was an planning on coming. And now exemption to the travel ban, so that our borders are back open we were able to get a waiver for again, we might get some more quite a few of those people. The people the second week.@ travel ban will be lifted on the Sheikh Mohammed=s 14th, but they wanted to be Godolphin operation was the here this week, so we are happy leading buyer at last year=s they could get here.@ September sale, purchasing Radcliffe said she had received 10 lots for $16 million, while his confirmation of her waiver Shannon Arvin | Keeneland photo brother Sheikh Hamdan Wednesday night and made last- purchased 18 yearlings for minute flight arrangements to make it to Lexington Saturday $11,070,000 for his Shadwell Estate Company to be second morning. leading buyer. While both were in attendance at the sale a year With no travel ban in place for buyers coming from Asia, ago, neither are expected to attend this year.