Souffle, bred by Waterville Lake Stable and a half sister to this year’s Saratoga NY-bred topper and stakes winner Derrynane, sold for $160,000 Friday at Keeneland. Photo courtesy of Winter Quarter Farm.
Souffle, a 4-year-old half-sister to stakes winner Derrynane and this year’s topper at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale, sold for $160,000 to lead all New York-breds that sold during the Book 3 sessions of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale in Lexington.
SF Bloodstock LLC purchased Souffle, offered as Hip 1206 by Winter Quarter Farm, agent, during Friday’s session. Bred and raced by Waterville Lake Stables and foaled at Stonewall Farm in Granite Springs, Souffle was sold in foal to Practical Joke.
Souffle is the second foal out of the Grade 3-placed stakes-winning Hard Spun mare Portmagee. She’s the dam of Derrynane, winner of the 2021 Woodbine Cares Stakes and fourth in the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint at Del Mar. Her yearling colt, by Quality Road, sold for $370,000 to Seth Klarman’s Klaravich Stable Inc. to top the Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale.
Souffle’s other two foals – the unraced 2-year-old More Than Ready colt Rossbeigh, a $200,000 RNA at the 2023 Saratoga New York-bred sale; and a weanling filly by Medaglia d’Oro – were also bred by Waterville Lake Stable.
Book 3’s highest-priced weanling also sold Friday. The day after stakes winner Curly Girl $280,000, her half-brother to 2022 Belmont Stakes winner Mo Donegal sold for $150,000.
Hip 1398, a colt by Mo Donegal and half-brother to stakes winners Curly and Bostontonian, sold for $150,000 Friday at Keeneland. Photo courtesy of St George Sales.
Norevale Farm purchased Hip 1398, who is out of the winning Forest Wildcat mare Falconess. She’s the dam of five winners led by Curly Girl, the winner of four of 18 starts and $172,764. Curly Girl won two of four starts at 2, including the Lady Finger Stakes at Finger Lakes, and also placed in the New York Oaks at 3 and Arctic Queen Stakes at 4. Falconess is also the dam of the unbeaten 2-year-old Bernardini gelding Bostontonian, winner of the Aspirant Stakes at Finger Lakes in September.
Denlea Park LTD, which bred Curly Girl and Bostontonian, also bred the Mo Donegal colt. He was consigned by St George Sales, agent.
Friday’s session also saw the sale of the unraced 3-year-old Ghostzapper filly Mary Jane’s Veil for $140,000. Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm LLC purchased Hip 1087, a half-sister to seven winners led by 2018 New York-bred champion older dirt female, Grade 3 winner and $662,775-earner Holiday Disguise and 2018 New York-bred champion 3-year-old filly, multiple stakes winner and $449,960-earner Midnight Disguise.
Bred by Spruce Lane, Stepwise, Robbins, Copper Beach, Lynn, Manlius and Thorne and foaled at Gallagher’s Stud in Ghent, Mary Jane’s Veil was offered as a racing or broodmare prospect and consigned by Winter Quarter Farm, agent. She’s out of the winning Yes It’s True mare Thin Disguise, a half-sister to 2007 New York-bred Horse of the Year and champion 4-year-old and up male Naughty New Yorker among other leading runners produced by Dr. Bill Wilmot and Dr. Joan Taylor’s Stepwise Farm breeding program.
Keeneland reported sales on 16 of the 19 New York-breds offered during the Book 3 sessions for total receipts of $1,246,000, an average price of $77,875 and median of $86,000.
Six of the seven New York-bred weanlings through the ring in Book 3 sold for $389,000, an average price of $64,833 and median of $60,000. Overall, 15 of the 17 New York-bred weanlings offered have sold for $1,304,000, an average price of $86,933 and median of $80,000.
The sale continues with the first of two Book 4 sessions at 10 a.m. Sunday.
