Secret Gypsy Sells for $540,000

Grade II winner Secret Gypsy is headed to Japan after being sold for $540,000 early in the afternoon of the second session of the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale in Lexington on Jan. 11. Teruya Yoshida’s Shadai Farm purchased the 6-year-old chestnut daughter of Sea of Secrets  , who was offered as a broodmare prospect.

“She is very fit and we saw her racing; she’s so fast,” said Naohiro Hosoda, who signed the sale ticket for Shadai. “She has lots of ability, so she is a nice type for a broodmare.”

On the sale’s Jan. 10 opening day, Shadai bought the grade I-winning racing or broodmare prospect Ave for the session-topping price of $1.4 million. As she went through the sale ring, Secret Gypsy was the most expensive horse that had been sold during the auction’s second session.

Secret Gypsy won five added-money events, including the Distaff Handicap (gr. II) in 2009 and the Honorable Miss Handicap (gr. II) and Endine Stakes (gr. III) in 2010.