Book 2, sessions two and three of the 2025 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale in Lexington, rolled on with more gains across the board. Canadian buyers have been a bit scarce early in the sale, but six sessions are remaining.
Ted Burnett’s JOSHAM FARMS was the buyer of LOOKINTOGETEVEN, an eight-year-old daughter of Ghostzapper in foal to leading first crop sire Yaupon (Uncle Mo), for $250,000. Lookintogeteven earned over $108,000 and is a daughter of multiple stakes winner Frolic’s Revenge, who is the dam of two stakes winners. Lookintogeteven has produced two offspring by Epicenter and Forte.
DAVID ANDERSON’S ANDERSON FARMS picked up two horses on Wednesday and Thursday. RARE ART, offered as a racing or broodmare prospect, was stakes-placed as a two-year-old in 2024, and she is by Munnings and out of a half-sister to multiple Grade 3 stakes-winning mare and course record setter Criminologist. Anderson bought the filly for $240,000.
Anderson also purchased PINK WHITNEY, a stakes placed four-year-old by Liam’s Map in foal to Candy Ride (Arg) for $160,000.
KAREN CARROLL of Talbot Creek Farm spent $150,000 for SPOUTY’S GIRL, a Practical Joke mare in foal to Munnings.
Dave Clancy’s Track West Racing sold a weanling filly by Life is Good – Marie Mackay, an Ontario-bred, for $140,000 to Canada Roles.
D.J. Stables, which is having a curated dispersal, sold its Ontario-bred stakes winner WINTERBERRY for $500,000. Winterberry was bred by Anderson Farms.
Thursday’s third session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale continued the double-digit gains of the first two days, with $44 million in sales led by the $700,000 purchase of Taylor Swifter, a four-year-old daughter of American Pharoah in foal to Flightline, by Bryant Prentice’s Pursuit of Success.
Gainesway, agent, the session’s leading consignor, sold Taylor Swifter, who is from the family of graded stakes winners and sires Liam’s Map and Not This Time. Her dam is stakes winner and Grade 2-placed Taylor S., by Medaglia d’Oro.
Thursday was the second and final day of Book 2, when Keeneland sold 239 horses through the ring for $44,027,000 for an increase of 30.27% from the third session of the 2024 sale when 212 horses grossed $33,796,500. The average of $184,213 rose 15.55% from last year’s $159,417. The median of $160,000 rose 20.75% from $132,500 to equal the median from Session 2.
Through three sessions, 596 horses have sold through the ring for $164,126,000, an increase of 30.67% from the corresponding period in 2024 when 556 horses grossed $125,606,500. The average of $275,379 rose 21.90% from last year’s $225,911, and the median of $190,000 was up 11.76% from $170,000.
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