Thursday’s third of nine sessions of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale sold 201 horses for $38,483,000 to increase gross through-the-ring sales to $173,947,000 — 5.98% above the corresponding period last year. At $900,000, today’s top-priced horse was Royal Slipper, a five-year-old winning daughter of Uncle Mo carrying a member of the first crop by champion Fierceness who sold to Mike Repole’s Repole Stable.
Repole raced Uncle Mo and bred and raced Fierceness. Both were champions at two.
Consigned by Denali Stud, agent, Royal Slipper is a full sister to Grade 1 winner Bast and from the family of Grade 1 winners Fault and Juju’s Map; Grade 2 winners Mananan McLir and Fioretti; and Grade 3 winner No Mo Candy. Royal Slipper is out of the Arch mare Laffina.
Keeneland cumulatively has sold 563 horses through the ring at the November Breeding Stock Sale for an average of $308,964 — 12.20% above last year — while the median of $190,000 was unchanged. A total of 24 horses have sold for $1 million and more this year compared to 18 in 2025.
Canadian breeders have been doing some bidding.
Minshall Farms and Murray Smith purchased the impeccably-bred mare KINGSCLERE, in foal to Omaha Beach, for $125,000. The daughter of Kitten’s Joy is a full sister to 2000 Guineas winner Kameko and she is carrying her first foal.
David Anderson of Anderson Farms welcomed his homebred ELYSIAN FIELD back to his farm in St. Thomas, buying her for $450,000 during the first session. The daughter of Hard Spun – Elysian was the 2023 Champion Three-Year-Old Filly in Canada, having won the Woodbine Oaks and finishing second in the King’s Plate. A two-time graded stakes winner as an older mare, Elysian Field was bred by Anderson and she raced for Gary Barber and Team Valor. The earner of over $960,000 was offered for sale last fall, but was bought back for $775,000.
Elysian Field was sold as a racing or broodmare prospect.
Tall Oaks Farm, agent for Colleen Dalos, signed the ticket for DREAMS WITH YOU (GB), a daughter of Oasis Dream, for $60,000. The mare is in foal to Forte and she is a half-sister to Group 1 winners Without Parole and Tamarkuz.
Josham Farms paid $300,000 for Way to Go, an unraced daughter of Nyquist in foal to Army Mule.
Glenn Sikura, agent bought stakes placed HIBISCIS, by Constitution, for $150,000 and that fast filly is in foal to Munnings. Sikura as agent also signed the ticket for stakes-placed RAGTIME ROSE, a half-sister to graded stakes winner Lane Way, in foal to Good Magic. Ragtime Rose cost $125,000.
Dr. Brian Van Arem has purchased three mares from the first three sessions including XIA’S SONG, in foal to Maxfield, for $80,000 and $120,000 for the Grade 2 stakes winning mare PACIFIC WIND, by Curlin, in foal to Citizen Bull. Dr. Van Arem also bought REPARTEE, the dam of 2021 Champion Three-Year-Old Filly in Canada, Munnyfor Ro, in foal to Twirling Candy.
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