NEWS
Mary Delaney kicks off Overbrook dispersal
Posted: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:46 AM
by Jeff Lowe
Grade 2 winner Mary Delaney launched Overbrook Farm’s dispersal at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale on Wednesday morning, selling for $850,000 early in the second session.
Bloodstock agent Reynolds Bell Jr. signed the ticket for the six-year-old Hennessy mare out of Crafty Emerald, by Crafty Prospector. Bell said the buyer is a client in North America whom he declined to identify.
Mary Delaney is in foal to Elusive Quality after delivering her first foal, a Mr. Greeley colt, in February. The weanling colt sold for $175,000 to Westrock Stables as the next horse through the sales ring.
“I really liked her,” Bell said. “She could run, she won a Grade 2, and she’s very attractive, and this is a dispersal that you’re not going to see again anytime soon.
Eaton Sales, agent, is consigning the horses in the Overbrook dispersal, and they are being offered without reserves.
“Anytime you’re at a dispersal you feel like you’re going to have to be a little stronger than you would otherwise,” Bell said. “It’s the last time you’re going to see it in the marketplace in the form that it is today.”
Mary Delaney won the 2006 Vinery Madison Stakes (G2) at Keeneland Race Course and a pair of stakes races at Turfway Park for owner Fergus Galvin and trainer Eddie Kenneally. She failed to meet her reserve on a final bid of $550,000 in the 2008 Keeneland November sale while she was carrying the Mr. Greeley colt.
Jeff Lowe is a Thoroughbred Times staff writer
