Instagrand, Higher Power colts highlight Book 5 of Keeneland September sale

New York-bred colts from the first crops of Instagrand and Higher Power highlighted Book 5 of the Keeneland September yearling sale.

Don’t Stop Me Now Stable purchased Hip 3552[2], a colt by the Grade 2-winning Into Mischief stallion Instagrand, for $105,000 during Thursday’s session. Bred by Forty Oaks and Pug Hart and foaled at Waldorf Farm in North Chatham, the colt is the second foal out of the winning More Than Ready mare Sistas Ready.

An RNA for $45,000 at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale, the colt sold for $15,000 at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale. The 14th six-figure New York-bred yearling so far at the sale, he was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.

The mare’s first foal, the Divisidero gelding Vote No, ran his record to 2-for-2 with a victory in the Pepsi Juvenile Sprint Stakes Sept. 13 at Kentucky Downs. Forty Oaks Farm purchased Sistas Ready, carrying the Instagrand colt in utero, for $9,000 at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale. She subsequently sold in foal to Galilean to K.O.I.D. for $3,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale.

Saffie Joseph Jr. purchased Hip 2992[4], a colt by Higher Power, for $80,000 during Wednesday’s session. Bred by Cheryl Prudhomme and Dr. Michael Gallivan and foaled at Shamrock Hill Farm in Fort Edward, the colt is the sixth foal out of the winning Freud mare La Condesa.

Originally sold as a weanling for $30,000 at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale and then as a short yearling for $25,000 at this year’s Keeneland January horses of all ages sale, the colt was consigned by Peter O’Callahan’s Woods Edge Farm, agent.

La Condesa is the dam of a pair of New York-bred winners – the 4-year-old Speightster filly Tough Street, a winner at the recent Saratoga Race Course meeting and earner of $321,103; and Stellwagen Banker, a gelding by Central Banker who won in mid-July at Delaware Park and earner of $23,690. La Condesa is also the dam of the 2-year-old New York-bred Mo Town filly Endless Love, who sold for $160,000 to Hidden Brook, agent, at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale.

Keeneland reported sales on 38 of the 50 New York-breds offered through the first 10 sessions for $4,144,000, an average price of $109,053 and median of $50,000.

The sale continues with the first of two Book 6 sessions at 10 a.m. Friday.

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