The 76th annual Keeneland September Yearling Sale from Sept. 9-22, represents the largest offering of Thoroughbred yearlings in the world. Last year, 2,916 yearlings sold for $377,140,400, for a sale-record average of $129,335.
The first three days of the sale comprise the prestigious Book 1, where the 569 yearlings in the catalog were selected for their outstanding pedigree sand conformation.
In Book 1 are seven yearlings from Sam-Son Farms including a filly by AMERICAN PHAROAH from the graded stakes placed mare Swoop and Strike.
Here is a closer look at the numbers from the 2019 catalog:
4,644: Horses – 2,332 males and 2,312 fillies.
2,130: Yearlings registered as bay. Of the other yearlings, 1,225 are dark bay or brown, 881 are chestnut, 406 are gray or roan, one is black and one is white.
569: Yearlings in Book 1, the premier offering of horses that takes place during the first three sessions of the sale.
281: Number of 2019 North American and international stakes that September Sale graduates have won through Aug. 19.
231: Sires represented by yearlings in the entire sale.
140: Consignors represented in the entire sale.
98: Yearlings in Book 1 whose siblings are Grade 1 winners.
90: Yearlings from the second crop of American Pharoah, who won the 2015 Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) at Keeneland and was named Horse of the Year.
54: Sires represented by yearlings in Book 1.
24: States, provinces and foreign countries where yearlings were foaled: Alberta (1), British Columbia (3), California (21), Florida (148), France (2), Great Britain (4), Illinois (2), Indiana (14), Iowa (18), Ireland (14), Kentucky (3,945), Louisiana (35), Manitoba (1), Maryland (54), Minnesota (5), New York (111), North Carolina (1), Ohio (28), Oklahoma (7), Ontario (146), Pennsylvania (34), South Carolina (1), Texas (10), Virginia (27) and West Virginia (12).
13: Sessions of the sale.
6: Number of catalogs for the sale.
BOOK ONE – Canadian-breds
Follow along at CanadianThoroughbred.com for updates on the Keeneland sale beginning next week.
Here is the link to the on-line catalogue – http://flex.keeneland.com/saleindex/saleindex.html
13 OUT
133
211
276
298
300
314
337
421
429
550
SAM-SON FARMS offers seven yearlings in Book 1
ANDERSON FARMS has 5 in Book 2
CARA BLOODSTOCK has 5 in Book 2
HILL N DALE, MICHAEL BYRNE and SHANNONEDOE are other Canadian consignors.
BY JENNIFER MORRISON, with files from Keeneland
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