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, 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.
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, 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, 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.
