Keeneland Begins January Horses of All Ages Sale on Monday

By Amy Owens —-

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Keeneland Begins January Horses of All Ages Sale on Monday

LEXINGTON, KY (Jan. 4, 2018) – Keeneland’s 60th January Horses of All Ages Sale, which offers broodmares and broodmare prospects, yearlings by leading North American sires and horses of racing age, starts Monday, Jan. 8. A total of 1,583 horses are cataloged to the sale, which runs through Thursday, Jan. 11.

The catalog includes 678 broodmares and broodmare prospects, 628 yearlings, 264 horses of racing age, and 13 stallions and racing or stallion prospects.

Among the prominent offerings are multiple graded stakes winner Mrs McDougal, consigned as a racing or broodmare prospect, and stakes winner and multiple graded stakes-placed Minks Aprise, supplemented to the catalog as a broodmare prospect.

Broodmares in the January Sale catalog are in foal to 154 stallions, including leading sires American Pharoah, Awesome Again, Bernardini, Candy Ride (ARG), Distorted Humor, Empire Maker, Hard Spun, Into Mischief, Lemon Drop Kid, Liam’s Map, Malibu Moon, Medaglia d’Oro, More Than Ready, Nyquist, Orb, Palace Malice, Point of Entry, Quality Road and Speightstown.

The January Sale also is notable for the quality short yearlings – horses that officially turned a year old on Jan. 1 – on offer. Graded stakes winners of 2017 who went through the January Sale ring as yearlings include Grade/Group 1 winners Mind Your Biscuits and Practical Joke; Grade 2 winners Catholic Boy, Giant Expectations and Tower of Texas; and Grade 3 winners Alert Bay, Awesome Slate, Code Warrior, Flameaway, Hogy, Miss Temple City, One Liner and Untrapped.

This year’s catalog features yearlings by 155 sires, led by American Pharoah, Awesome Again, Bayern, Cairo Prince, Candy Ride (ARG), Carpe Diem, Curlin, Ghostzapper, Hard Spun, Honor Code, Into Mischief, Kitten’s Joy, Lea, Liam’s Map, Malibu Moon, Medaglia d’Oro, More Than Ready, Orb, Palace Malice, Pioneerof the Nile, Quality Road, Speightstown, Tiznow, Tonalist, Uncle Mo, Union Rags, Verrazano, War Front and Will Take Charge.

Sessions begin at 10 a.m. ET each day. The sale will be streamed live on Keeneland.com.

During the first three sessions on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, TVG host/reporter Scott Hazelton will provide enhanced, on-site coverage of the sale on TVG2.

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For more than 80 years, the Keeneland Association has devoted itself to the health and vibrancy of the Thoroughbred industry. As the world’s largest Thoroughbred auction company, Keeneland conducts sales every January, September and November. Its sales graduates dominate racing across the globe at every level. In April and October, Keeneland offers some of the highest caliber and richest Thoroughbred racing in the world. In 2015, Keeneland hosted the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. 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 it has donated millions of dollars in charitable contributions for education, research and health and human services throughout Central Kentucky. To learn more about Keeneland, visit Keeneland.com.