Broman-breds highlight Book 2 at Keeneland September yearling sale

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Hip 1071, a half-brother to multiple New York-bred champion Mr. Buff, sold for $500,000 Thursday at Keeneland. Photo courtesy of Sequel New York.

Five New York-bred yearlings bred by Chester and Mary Broman and consigned by Becky Thomas’ Sequel New York sold for six figures Thursday – including a colt for $500,000 and a filly for $400,000 – to highlight the close of Book 2 of the Keeneland September yearling sale in Lexington.

Hip 1071[2], a colt by Into Mischief and half-brother to multiple New York-bred champion and $1,403,536-earner Mr. Buff, led the way Thursday on the $500,000 bid from L&N Racing.

The bay colt is the seventh foal out of the Grade 3-placed Speightstown mare Speightful Affair. She’s the dam of five winners from five foals to race, a group led by 2019 and 2020 New York-bred champion older dirt male and 11-time stakes winner Mr. Buff. She’s also the dam of stakes-placed winners Quick to Accuse and Organic Gemini.

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Hip 994, a daughter of McKinzie and the first foal out of stakes winner Naughty Joker, sold for $400,000 Thursday at Keeneland. Photo courtesy of Sequel New York.

Hip 994[4], a daughter of McKinzie and the first foal out of the stakes-winning Into Mischief mare Naughty Joker, sold for $400,000 to Kim Lloyd, agent for Talla Racing.

Naughty Joker went 2-2-3 in nine starts, including a victory in Turfway Park’s Bourbonette Oaks in 2019, and earned $176,403 for owners and breeders Ken and Sarah Ramsey from 2018 to 2020. The Bromans purchased the then 5-year-old mare carrying the $400,000 filly in utero for $430,000 at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November mixed sale.

Another of the six-figure Broman-bred yearlings, Hip 1004[5], a colt by Omaha Beach, sold for $230,000.

Quarter Pole Enterprises LLC purchased the colt, who is the second foal out of the stakes-winning Malibu Moon mare Out of Orbit. The winner of four of 24 starts with 11 placings and earnings of $319,328, Out of Orbit won the 2019 Saratoga Dew Stakes at Saratoga in the Broman colors.

The Broman-bred yearlings were foaled at their Chestertown Farm in Chestertown.

Keeneland reported sales on 10 of the 16 New York-bred yearlings over the first four sessions for a total of $2,780,000, an average price of $278,000 and median of $252,500.

After a scheduled dark day Friday, bidding resumes with the first of two Book 3 sessions at the sale at 10 a.m. Saturday.

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Hip1071KeeSept2023.jpeg
  2. Hip 1071: http://apps.keeneland.com/sales/k223/pdfs/1071.pdf
  3. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Hip994KeeSept2023.jpeg
  4. Hip 994: https://secure.keeneland.com/sales/k223/pdfs/994.pdf
  5. Hip 1004: https://secure.keeneland.com/sales/k223/pdfs/1004.pdf

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