NEWS
Supercilious tops Keeneland session at $635,000
Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2001
Eight-year-old mare Supercilious brought a final bid of $635,00 to top the third day of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale on Wednesday.Consigned by Fred Seitz/Brookdale Farm, agent, for Herman Sarkowsky, the daughter of Skywalker was bought by Shadai Farm. She was listed as having aborted a single foal to the cover of Dixie Union. Her first foal is a weanling daughter of Deputy Minister.
Out of the Never Tabled mare Table Frolic, Supercilious is a half sister to stakes-placed Never Topped. She won ten of 35 career starts, including the 1996 Railbird Stakes (G2) at Hollywood Park, and earned $843,454.
Also on Wednesday, a five-year-old mare and a four-year-old filly who raced against each other in the Bryan Station Stakes at Keeneland on October 19, returned to the facility's sales pavilion and were sold for $550,000 each.
Gino's Spirits (GB), the winner in the Bryan Station, was listed as a racing or broodmare prospect and was sold to Klaus Jacob's English-based Newsells Park Stud. The five-year-old Perugino mare was consigned by Eaton Sales, agent.
Gino's Spirits has won nine of 33 career starts and has earned $398,627. Her resume includes her triumph in last year's Noble Damsel Handicap (G3) at Belmont Park. She is out of the Cure the Blues mare Rising Spirits (Ire), a half sister to Irish highweight Citidancer (Ire).
Newsells purchased another high-priced racing or broodmare prospect on November 4 at the Fasig-Tipton November selected mixed sale when the operation bought the sale topper, Grade 1 Stormy Pick, for $600,000.
Star Queen, eighth in the Bryan Station, was cataloged as pregnant by Southern Halo on an April 20 breeding. Consigned by Fred Seitz/Brookdale Farm, agent, the four-year-old Kingmambo filly was purchased by S. David Plummer, also on a $550,000 bid.
Star Queen has won five of 25 career starts and has earned $158,072. Since the catalog was printed, she added her first stakes victory to her record—the Dade Turf Classic Stakes at Ellis Park on September 1.
She was produced by the Seattle Slew mare Starboard Tack, a half sister to 1993 Canadian two-year-old Comet Shine.
Keeneland reported sales on 230 of 316 horses offered for a buy-back rate of 27.2%. The total receipts of $23,767,500 was down 67.2% from last year when 223 horses sold on the third day for gross receipts of $72,513,000.
The average price on Wednesday was $103,337 and the median was $77,000. Through the first three days, 562 horses have changed hands for a total of $129,695,500. The average thus far is $230,775 and the median is $110,000. Keeneland did not release comparative figures from last year's sale.
The 11-day sale continues on Thursday at 10:00 a.m. EST.
Complete results are available at http://www.keeneland.com/livesales/currentsales.asp
