Four grade 1-winning racing and/or broodmare prospects—Expensive Queen, Kilwin, Thought Process, and Usha—command seven-figure prices Nov. 3 during the initial session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.
Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm buys Flag Day (Hip 79), dam of graded stakes winner Hall of Fame, a son of Gun Runner. The mare is in foal with a full sibling of Hall of Fame. She is part of the complete dispersal of Earle Mack's breeding stock.
Graded stakes-winning millionaire Quietside, in foal to Nyquist, made noise in the sales ring Nov. 3, selling for $5.2 million to top the first session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.
Spendthrift Farm mulls strong arguments for keeping its Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner in training or moving the son of Gun Runner on to a stallion career next year.
The July 25 Monmouth Oaks (G3) has proven to be doubly rewarding for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. as he won the race with My Miss Mo and purchased Bodacious Bay, the runner-up, who took the Cotillion (G1) in her first start for her new connections.
Spendthrift Farm mulls strong arguments for keeping its Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner in training or moving the son of Gun Runner on to a stallion career next year.