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Keeneland September Yearling Sale leading consignor Gainesway got Book 3 moving with two early offerings bringing $550,000 and $525,000 early into the fifth session.
The $550,000 yearling is a Tapit colt bred in partnership with Whisper Hill Farm out of stakes winner Yawkey Way , dam of Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner Spun To Run and stakes winner Tap It All . Frank Fletcher Racing Operation signed for the bay colt consigned as Hip 1137.
The next horse to bring more than half a million dollars was an Into Mischief filly out of a half sister to champion 3-year-old filly and female sprinter Covfefe , also by Into Mischief. The yearling filly out of the Discreet Cat mare Acrobatique was bred by familiar connections to her dual grade 1 winning sister in LNJ Foxwoods and Helen C. Alexander. Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation signed for the filly consigned as Hip 1145.
“It’s a little spotty (today), the top lots are breaking through,” Gainesway’s general manager Brian Graves said. “Anything with a little vet work, you struggle to move it along. We were happy with the Tapit colt; he was another Gainesway/Whisper Hill partnership and exceeded our expectations. We followed that up with the Into Mischief filly, and everybody was pleased. I think from here on the market is going to get fairly realistic.”
Through the first four sessions, Gainesway led all consignors at the sale with gross receipts of $32,475,000. Approaching the midway point through the fifth session, that sale total exceeded $35.4 million.
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