Stakes winner Funny How, offered in foal to Constitution, sold for $300,000 during Book 1 at the Keeneland November sale. Photo courtesy of Denali Stud.
Grade 3-placed stakes winner Funny How commanded a bid of $300,000 to lead the New York-bred offerings during Book 1 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale Tuesday in Lexington.
Locust Road purchased the 5-year-old daughter of Overanalyze, sold as Hip 185 by Denali Stud, agent. Funny How, who made her final start in early April, was sold in foal to top sire Constitution.
Bred by Hibiscus Stable and foaled at Waldorf Farm in North Chatham, Funny How is one of nine winners from nine foals to race and one of three stakes winners out of the stakes-winning Distorted Humor mare Heavenly Humor. She’s a half-sister to multiple stakes winner and $638,645-earner Funny Guy, stakes winner Super Humor, stakes-placed $342,170-earner Three Jokers and five other winners.
A $120,000 purchase at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale, Funny How raced for Adelphi Racing Club and Cutair Racing and trainer Ray Handal. She won five of 11 starts, including the 2023 Broadway Stakes at Aqueduct during a run of five straight victories, and earned $302,405. She also finished second in the Grade 3 Distaff Handicap at Aqueduct.
Hibiscus Stables purchased Heavenly Humor in foal to Big Brown for $25,000 at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga October mixed sale. The resulting foal was Funny Guy, a five-time stakes winner who finished second in the Grade 2 Vosburgh Stakes in 2020. Hibiscus also bred Three Jokers and a New York-bred colt by The Factor born in June 2022 from the mare.
Tuesday’s opening session also saw the sale of the lone New York-bred weanling in Book 1 – Hip 16, a colt by Charlatan and half-brother to Grade 2 winner Baby Yoda – that sold for $190,000 to Brookstone Farm.
Bred by Town & Country Farms LLC, foaled at Mahony Eden Manor in Saratoga Springs and consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, the colt is out of the placed More Than Ready mare More Than Speed. She’s the dam of three winners led by Baby Yoda, winner of this year’s Grade 2 True North Stakes at Saratoga Race Course and runner-up to Flightline in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes in 2021 at Santa Anita Park.
Keeneland reported sales on four of the four New York-bred broodmares, broodmare prospects or racing prospects for $790,000, an average price of $197,500.
The sale continues with the first of two Book 2 sessions at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
