King’s Plate winner MANSETTI will be offered for sale today as the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale gets underway in Lexington, KY.
Keeneland has cataloged 1,097 horses for the 69th annual sale on Monday-Tuesday, Jan. 12-13. The two-day auction offers a diverse selection of broodmares and broodmare prospects, newly turned yearlings and horses of racing age along with stallions and stallion prospects.
Mansetti, a leading candidate for Champion three-year-old male and Horse of the Year in Canada is Hip no. 527 on Monday, January 12. The session begins at 10 a.m. The now four-year-old son of Collected also won the Grade 3 Marine Stakes and Woodstock Stakes this year for owners Al and Bill Ulwelling. The colt has earned over $776,000.
Several Plate-winning fillies and mares have been sold at auction as broodmare prospects such as Moira, Wonder Gadot and Lexie Lou. The last two male Plate winners to go through a sale post-Plate win were Sir Dudley Digges (2016), who was sold as a stallion prospect for $6,700, and Midnight Aria (2010), a $40,000 sale in 2016 who went to Korea and was outdistanced in two races in 2017.
John Brnjas is selling his Kentucky-bred Grade 1 winner SIMPLY IN FRONT through Ontario agent Richard Hogan, who bought the mare for Brnjas’ Colebrook Farms for $115,000 in 2022. Simply in Front has earned over $2.8 million.
Each session of the January Sale will start at 10 a.m. ET. The auction will be livestreamed at Keeneland.com. FanDuel will stream the auction on the FanDuel TV+ OTT app.
The catalog also includes:
- Tiffany Case, dam of Canadian champion Nitrogen — a nominee for the Eclipse Award as champion three-year-old filly for 2025 — and in foal to Not This Time. Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, consigns the 13-year-old mare, a winning stakes-placed daughter of Uncle Mo whose two foals to race are both stakes winners.
- Mares in foal to leading sires including Constitution, Justify, Not This Time, Nyquist, Tapit, Vekoma and more.
- Yearlings by leading sires such as Gun Runner, Into Mischief, Justify, Not This Time, Nyquist, Quality Road, Uncle Mo and Wootton Bassett (GB).
- Nearly 100 yearlings by the top-10 first-crop sires by weanling average in 2025: Cody’s Wish, Up to the Mark, Elite Power, Forte, Gunite, Taiba, Mage, Arabian Lion, Arcangelo and Annapolis.
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