Spring Farm, Conrads and Henley Among Cdn. Buyers Day 2 Keeneland

DR. JOHN BROWN of Spring Farm continued his buying spree and Penny and Manfred Conrad bought the momma of their Queen’s Plate contender on the second day of Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale, Jan. 14, in Lexington.

Dr. Brown has bought four mares for $62,000 from the first two days of the sale including two more on Tuesday. His Spring Farm, which stands the stallion Big Screen (Speightstown) has been a successful breeding operation in Ontario for decades and no doubt the Mare Purchase Program issued through Ontario Racing has spurred on buying by Dr. Brown and others.

Some of the Canadians that appeared on the sales sheets for Day 2 of the sale appear below.

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CONRAD FARMS, of Penny and Manfred Conrad is one of the biggest growing farms in Canada and the couple paid $230,000 for the mare LUNCH HOUR (Medaglia D’oro), offered by Four Star Sales for the estate of Bill Graham. Lunch Hour’s 2-year-old of 2019, MUSKOKA GOLD, won the Cup 7 Saucer Stakes for the Conrads and is top pick to be named Champion 2-year-Old in Canad at the Sovereign Awards in April.

Lunch Hour is carrying a full sibling to Muskoka Gold, a son of young sire Lea.

Some Canadian buyers:

Richard Hogan for Ashlee Burness – $22,000 She’s a Ringer, a young Where’s the Ring mare, half to Cooler Mike and Sav, in foal to Paynter, has 2 Giant Gizmos on ground

Anthony Russo – Summer Dress, Candy Ride mare out of Grade 3 stakes winner Rich in Spirit. In foal to Orb $4,500

Anthony Russo for Jeremia Rudan – $15,000 Jeremiah Jewel, Bodemeister mare in foal to Runhappy
Henley Farms – Summer Fling by Shanghai Bobby, $75,000, winning daughter of multiple stakes winner Summer Song in foal to Palace Malice

Robert Crean for Steve Foxcroft, short yearling by Violence, filly $5,500
Spring Farm, $27,000 Dreaming of Candy, Candy Ride mare, unraced 5-year-old in foal to Super Saver

Spring Farm $10,000 Miss Brown Sugar by Big Brown – dam of a winner in foal to Tapiture

Nick Nosowenko, Feet Fail Me Not by Candy Ride, $5,000, 3-year-old out of Grade 2 winner Devil’s Cave by Put It Back. racing or Broodmare
Tony Gattellaro – $1,000 4yo Longwaytothemoon by Gio Ponti from Malibu Moon mare, half sister to stakes winner Line Change – racing or broodmare prospect, 4yo

Tom Patton, $10,000 Lucky Girasol, by Lookin at Lucky – broodmare prospect

Zach Madden for Conrad Farms $230,000 Lunch Hour from Windhaven. Medaglia D’oro mare out of Grade 1 winner Sis City, dam of Cup & Saucer Stakes winner Muskoka Gold and carrying full sibling to that one

Keeneland Review of Session 2

James Schenck, agent, acquired the two most expensive horses of Tuesday’s second session of the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale when he purchased Grade 1-placed Enaya Alrabb for $640,000 and Confidently, a half-sister to champion and leading sire Uncle Mo, for $560,000. Both horses were offered as broodmare prospects.

On Tuesday, Keeneland sold 233 horses for $17,288,800, for an average of $74,201 and a median of $40,000. Enaya Alrabb, Inflamed at $525,000 and Pomeroys Pistol at $475,000 – all supplemented to the January Sale – sold near the conclusion of the session.

Through Book 1, conducted during the first two days of the sale, 464 horses grossed $32,167,100, for an average of $69,326 and a median of $37,000.

“The supplements were ones we knew would be very popular with the buyers, and they shone a light tonight,” Keeneland Director of Sales Operations Geoffrey Russell said. “The first book is a typical January catalog without a major dispersal. The quality was even. We are delighted to see Glen Hill back in the consignment business and selling two of the top three. Buyers were all over the right yearlings today.”

Consigned by Paramount Sales, agent, Enaya Alrabb is a 4-year-old daughter of Uncle Mo, whose dam, the Rhythm mare Lotta Rhythm, is a half-sister to the dam of Racing Hall of Famer Rachel Alexandra. She finished second in the 2018 Starlet (G1) and 2019 Las Virgenes (G2).

“That was on the top end (price wise),” Pat Costello of Paramount Sales said. “She was lovely, she didn’t turn a hair and she was a great racehorse. We were delighted; the owners are delighted. If you bring the goods here, you get well paid, maybe even paid more than you thought.”

Confidently is a 4-year-old War Front filly who is out of the Arch mare Playa Maya. She was consigned by Glen Hill Farm.

“We thought about breeding her and maybe selling her in November,” Glen Hill President and COO Craig Bernick said. “But when I’m buying a horse myself, a lot of times I like to pick out the stallions. I thought whoever bought her would breed her to who they wanted to. When you get to November, you have to make sure they like the covering sire and so on. I thought this was a good place to sell her.”

Glen Hill also sold Inflamed, dam of 2019 Eclipse Award finalist as champion turf male Mo Forza, to Shadai Farm of Japan for $525,000, the day’s third-highest price. Mo Forza reeled off consecutive wins in the Qatar Twilight Derby (G2), Hollywood Derby (G1) and Mathis Brothers Mile (G2) to close 2019.

Naohiro Hosoda signed the ticket for Terry Yoshida.

“She is the dam of Mo Forza, who is a tough horse,” Hosoda said. “She’s still young, 10 years old, and Unusual Heat was also California’s leading sire. The progeny do good on fast ground, and in Japan we have the same racing on fast ground. I expected (to pay) $500,000 or $600,000. We have no plans for the next mating.”

Bernick said Tuesday “was a good day. It’s about the horses. And we have a great crew. Lindsay Schultz (who manages Glen Hill’s Florida farm) did the equine program at (the University of) Louisville and was an assistant to (trainer) Tom Proctor and was in Godolphin Flying Start. She has worked a sale or two but never in a management position. This is her first sale where she’s ever run a barn, and she sold two of the three most expensive horses (today). She did a great job.”

Mike Ryan, agent, paid $475,000 for Pomeroys Pistol, a multiple graded stakes winner and dam of undefeated Thousand Words, winner of the Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) in December.

Ryan said he bought the 12-year-old daughter of Pomeroy on behalf of Jeff Drown.

“He wants to play at the upper end of the market,” Ryan said. “She is a quality mare, a brilliant race mare and who knows how good (Thousand Words) is. She is only 12. Hopefully we can breed a couple of good ones out of her.”

Grade 3 winner Tiz Breathtaking, a 4-year-old daughter of Tiznow, sold for $375,000 to WinStar and Larry Taylor. Raced and bred by the late Bill Graham, Tiz Breathtaking was a top 2-year-old filly in canada in 2018.

“We bought her to go to (WinStar stallion) Constitution,” WinStar General Manager David Hanley said. “We love Tiznow broodmares. She’s a beautiful, quality mare. She was a very good 2-year-old and had plenty of speed so we just loved the package. We love the family.”