Keeneland’s January Horses of All Ages Sale Opens Monday

By Amy Owens —-

• Click here for the January Sale Media Kit.
• Click here for the online catalog.
• Click here for the supplemental catalog.
• Click here for the microsite about Abel Tasman.
• Access information for Keeneland’s FTP site appears at the end of this release.

Keeneland’s January Horses of All Ages Sale Opens Monday

LEXINGTON, KY (Jan. 3, 2019) – Keeneland’s 2019 January Horses of All Ages Sale, which has cataloged 1,574 horses, including champion Abel Tasman and Grade 1 winner and recent supplement Fatale Bere (FR), starts Monday at 10 a.m. ET.

The sale, which runs through Thursday, Jan. 10, will be streamed live on Keeneland.com. TVG coverage of the auction will begin Sunday and continue the following two days with live coverage on TVG2.

On Monday, Abel Tasman will sell as Hip 288 and Fatale Bere is Hip 397K.

One of the top distaffers of her generation, Abel Tasman captured six Grade 1 races at 2, 3 and 4 and earned nearly $2.8 million. She was named champion 3-year-old filly of 2017. Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, is consigning the 4-year-old daughter of Quality Road for co-owners China Horse Club and Clearsky Farms.

Fatale Bere, winner of the 2018 Del Mar Oaks Presented by The Jockey Club (G1), is consigned by ELiTE.
With Fatale Bere among the 20 supplemental entries in the catalog, the January Sale has 709 broodmares and broodmare prospects, 601 yearlings, 258 horses of racing age and six stallions.

Covering Sires and Sires of Yearlings

Broodmares cataloged to the January Sale are in foal to 151 new and established stallions, while yearlings in the catalog represent 152 stallions

Covering sires include American Pharoah, Arrogate, Blame, California Chrome, Candy Ride (ARG), Distorted Humor, Empire Maker, Ghostzapper, Gun Runner, Hard Spun, Honor Code, Into Mischief, Kitten’s Joy, Liam’s Map, Lord Nelson, Malibu Moon, Mastery, More Than Ready, Nyquist, Pioneerof the Nile, Quality Road, Runhappy, Speightstown, Tapit, Tiznow, Uncle Mo, Union Rags, Violence, War Front and Will Take Charge.

Among the sires of yearlings are Air Force Blue, American Pharoah, Anchor Down, Brody’s Cause, Cairo Prince, California Chrome, Candy Ride (ARG), Distorted Humor, Empire Maker, Exaggerator, Flatter, Frosted, Ghostzapper, Honor Code, Into Mischief, Kantharos, Kitten’s Joy, Lea, Liam’s Map, Malibu Moon, Medaglia d’Oro, More Than Ready, Mshawish, Nyquist, Quality Road, Runhappy, Speightster, Speightstown, Tiznow, Tourist, Uncle Mo, Union Rags, Upstart, Violence, War Front and Will Take Charge.

Prominent 2018 graded stakes winners sold as yearlings at the January Sale include Grade 1 winner Catholic Boy (Belmont Derby Invitational and Travers) and Mind Your Biscuits (Dubai Golden Shaheen and Lukas Classic-G2); Grade 2 winners Catapult (Del Mar Mile and Eddie Read; second in Breeders’ Cup Mile-G1) and Ms Locust Point (Barbara Fritchie); and Grade 3 winners Code Warrior (Hendrie and Seaway), Flameaway (Sam F. Davis), Limation (Super Derby), Mucho Gusto (Bob Hope) and Toinette (Autumn Miss and Edgewood).

January Sale Media Resources

January Sale video and still photos are available on Keeneland’s FTP site for editorial use. The site will feature sale ring video and photos of top-priced horses; photos of consignors, buyers and notable personalities; sale b-roll and scenic shots.

Access to the FTP site does not require a username or password. Simply click here to open the 2019 January Sale folder.

Photos and video are intended for editorial, noncommercial use only. Please credit as “Keeneland photo” or “Keeneland video.”

Keeneland will provide the following coverage of the January Sale:

• Click here for the 2019 January Sale Media Kit.
• Visit Keeneland.com and social media (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter) for sales news, including short articles of interest about the auction and its participants.
• Throughout the sale, timely updates about top-priced horses will be posted on Keeneland.com and on Keeneland’s social media.
• Press releases on each of the four sessions will be distributed daily via email and posted on Keeneland.com.

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For more than 80 years, the Keeneland Association has devoted itself to the health and vibrancy of the Thoroughbred industry. The world’s largest Thoroughbred auction house, Keeneland conducts four sales a year, in January, April, September and November, and its sales graduates dominate racing globally at every level. In April and October, Keeneland offers some of the highest caliber and richest Thoroughbred racing in the world. Keeneland hosted the Breeders’ Cup World Championships in 2015 and will hold the event again in 2020. Uniquely structured, Keeneland is a private, for-profit corporation that returns its earnings to the industry and the community in the form of higher purses and millions of dollars donated in support of horse industry initiatives and charitable contributions for education, research and health and human services throughout Central Kentucky. To learn more, visit Keeneland.com.

For more information contact Amy Gregory at 859 361-3490 or Amy Owens at 859 421-2566