NEWS
White colt tops fifth Keeneland sale session
Posted: Friday, January 16, 2009 8:07 PM
HIP #1832: WHITE PRINCE
Photo by Z
White Prince, a white yearling Devil His Due colt purchased for $60,000 by Florida-based pinhooker Christy Whitman, was the session topper at the fifth session of the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale on Friday, which concluded with steep declines compared with last year’s session.
Keeneland reported 244 of 289 horses offered as sold on Friday for total receipts of $2,050,200, a 45.6% decrease compared with last year’s fifth session, when 239 horses brought $3,766,400. The average price on Friday was $8,402, a 46.7% decline versus last year’s $15,759 average. Median declined 47.1%, from $8,500 last year to $4,500.
Session topper White Prince is out of Patchen Beauty, a white Hatchet Man mare. Hopewell Farm, agent, consigned White Prince, who was bred by Patchen Wilkes Farm in Lexington.
Salman Rashid went to $57,000, Friday’s second-highest price, for an unnamed Five Star Day yearling colt out of the Pleasant Colony mare Minicolony, a full sister to multiple graded stakes winner Colonial Minstrel.
Consigned by Hunter Valley Farm, agent, the gray or roan yearling colt is a half brother to stakes-placed winners Sea Pines and Suzy Smart and is from the family of Irish champion two-year-old Minstrella and graded stakes winners Misty Gallore, Mini Sermon, Minidar, and Pleasant Strike.
With one day remaining in the six-day sale, Keeneland has sold 1,125 horses for $31,028,200, a 53.5% decline compared with the first five sessions last year, when 1,145 horses brought $66,678,700. Average price is down 52.6%, from $58,235 last year to $27,581. The median is $10,000, a 58.3% decline compared with $24,000 last year.
The sale concludes Saturday. The final session begins at 10 a.m. EST.
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