Keeneland announced Wednesday that it has cataloged 3,958 horses for its 2012 November Breeding Stock Sale, scheduled for November 6-16. The total is up slightly from the 3,919 cataloged in 2011.
Catalogs will be available electronically via Keeneland’s website, www.keeneland.com, beginning Tuesday, October 2. Print catalogs will be mailed the week of October 16.
The total cataloged includes 1,890 broodmares and broodmare prospects, 1,691weanlings, 363 horses of racing age, four yearlings, nine stallions and one share in Macho Uno. Among the notable broodmares slated to sell at the auction are 2011 Kentucky Oaks winner Plum Pretty.
“The November Sale is unmatched in terms of the selection of stakes-winning and stakes-producing fillies and mares in foal to the world’s leading sires, as well as foals by today’s most fashionable stallions,” said Walt Robertson, Keeneland’s vice president of sales. “That international appeal sets it apart from any other sale of its kind in the world.”
The November Sale will feature mares in foal to such stallions as Arch, Bernardini, Blame, Cape Blanco, Distorted Humor, Drosselmeyer, Elusive Quality, Empire Maker, Eskendereya, Exchange Rate, Galileo, Giant’s Causeway, Hard Spun, Lonhro, Lookin At Lucky, Malibu Moon, Medaglia d’Oro, Montjeu, Paddy O’Prado, Pulpit, Quality Road, Rip Van Winkle, Scat Daddy, Smart Strike, Speightstown, Street Cry, Tapit, Tiznow, Trappe Shot, Unbridled’s Song, Uncle Mo and War Front, among others.
Weanlings representing stallions, such as Arch, Awesome Again, Bernardini, Blame, Cape Cross , Distorted Humor, Elusive Quality, Eskendereya, Exchange Rate, Galileo, Giant’s Causeway, Hard Spun, High Chaparral, Indian Charlie, Lookin At Lucky, Malibu Moon, Medgalia d’Oro, Pulpit, Quality Road, Raven’s Pass, Scat Daddy, Smart Strike, Speightstown, Street Cry, Tapit, Tiznow, Unbridled’s Song and War Front, are cataloged.
Keeneland announced earlier that it would delay the start of its November Sale by one day to better accommodate horsemen attending the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa Anita on Friday and Saturday, November 2-3.
Alicia Wincze Hughes is the turf writer for the Lexington Herald-Leader. She started riding at age 8 and was a four-year member of the Pace University equestrian team.
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