Lovely Regina, In Foal to Flashback, Brings $370,000
Graded stakes producer Lovely Regina, a half-sister to champion and leading sire Bernardini in foal to Flashback, topped Saturday’s sixth of 12 sessions of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale when she sold for $370,000 to Baccari Bloodstock.
Cumulatively, Keeneland has sold 1,206 horses for $190,531,000, a 5.6 percent increase in total sales compared to figures from the same point of the 2014 sale when 1,321 horses brought $180,429,500. Average price of $156,986 is 15.67 percent higher than $136,586 in 2014, while the median of $80,000 is 6.67 percent above $75,000 last year.
On Saturday during the second of two sessions in Book 3, 238 horses sold for $11,753,000, 15.97 percent below the gross sales of the corresponding session last year when 275 horses brought $13,986,500. The average of $49,382 dipped slightly from $50,860 last year, and the median of $40,000 was just below $42,000 in 2014.
Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency, agent, consigned Lovely Regina, a 4-year-old daughter of Deputy Minister and the Grade 1-winning Quiet American mare Cara Rafaela. In addition to the aforementioned Bernardini, she is a half-sister to Grade 1 stakes-placed Ile de France, dam of Grace 1 winner Love and Pride.
Lovely Regina is the dam of Grade 3 winner Thiskyhasnolimit, by Sky Mesa.
At $210,000, the session’s second high seller is the racing or broodmare prospect Honey Chile Ryder, a 3-year-old Medaglia d’Oro filly out of Grade 1 winner Honey Ryder, by Lasting Approval. Joe Minor bought the filly, who was consigned by Four Star Sales, agent for JSM Equine and Greathouse Horse Properties.
The session’s top-priced weanling is a colt from the first crop of Paynter sold to Orchard Lane Farm for $145,000. Denali Stud, agent, consigned the colt, who is out of the Coronado’s Quest mare Glory and Grace, a half-sister to Grade 1 winner On a Soapbox.
The session’s leading consignor was Taylor Made Sales Agency, which sold 33 horses for $1,634,000.
Calumet was the leading buyer, acquiring 13 horses for $1,157,000.
The November Sale continues through Friday, Nov. 13. Sessions start at 10 a.m.
Source: Keeneland Association