Deep Space, an 8-year-old Curlin mare in foal to Maxfield, sold for $115,000 to highlight Book 4 of the Keeneland November sale. Photo courtesy of Vinery Sales.

Deep Space, a winning daughter of Curlin in foal to Maxfield, sold for $115,000 and a weanling colt by Mystic Guide brought $72,000 to lead the New York-bred offerings in Book 4 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.

Sean S. Perl Bloodstock purchased Deep Space, Hip 2191, out of the Vinery Sales consignment. Bred by Newtown Anner Stud and foaled at Jack’s Farm on the Hill in Millbrook, 8-year-old Deep Space is out of the winning Bluegrass Cat mare Purple Cat.

Deep Space, who went 1-2-1 in eight starts and earned $24,130, is a half-sister to multiple New York-bred stakes winner and $423,910-earner Maker’s Candy, winning Mizzen Mast gelding Catapult Jack, 2-year-old New York-bred Speightster colt Dream Alliance and a weanling colt by War Dancer born March 17 in New York.

Keeneland reported Monday that total receipts of $181.4 million through the first seven of nine sessions of the November sale had already surpassed last year’s total of $176.5 million. New York-breds contributed to that haul, led by the sale of 15 horses sold for $100,000 or more.

Keeneland reported sales on 20 of the 29 New York-breds offered during Book 4 for a total of $702,000, an average price of $35,100 and median of $31,000. Overall, 54 of the 69 New York-breds through the ring have brought $4,613,000, an average price of $85,426 and median of $60,000.

The group of New York-breds also includes 26 weanlings that have sold for $1,666,000, an average price of $64,077 and median of $45,000. Two of those weanlings brought prices higher than the average during the Book 4 sessions – Hip 2225 and Hip 1991.

Hip 2225, a colt by Mystic Guide bred by Saratoga Glen Farm, sold for $72,000 Sunday at Keeneland. Photo courtesy of Vinery Sales.

Hip 2225, a colt from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Mystic Guide, brought the top price for a New York-bred weanling in Book 4. Owl Stable purchased the colt, who was bred by and foaled at Saratoga Glen Farm LLC in Schuylerville and is out of the Grade 2-placed Tiznow mare Fantasy of Flight.

Consigned by Vinery Sales, agent, the Mystic Guide colt is a half-brother to stakes-placed winner Oxford Blues, five-time winner $150,364-earner My Romeo Lima and another winner. Fantasy of Flight, purchased out of the 2023 Keeneland November sale for $9,000 by Saratoga Glen Farm, is also the dam of a yearling filly by Maxfield.

Hip 1991, a daughter of Maclean’s Music, landed the high price for a weanling filly on a bid of $70,000 from Dam The River Bloodstock.

Bred by Waterville Lake Stables LLC and consigned by Winter Quarter Farm, agent, the filly is the first foal out of the unraced Flatter mare Puffin Island. She’s out of the four-time stakes winner, Grade 2-placed and $759,200-earner Quezon, a daughter of Tiz Wonderful who sold in foal to Gun Runner for $700,000 at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November sale.

The sale continues with the first of two concluding Book 5 sessions at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

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.

Three-time stakes winner Betsy Blue, a 6-year-old daughter of Tonalist offered in foal to Nyquist, sold for $375,000 Wednesday at the Keeneland November sale. Photo courtesy of Ballysax Bloodstock.

Three-time stakes winner Betsy Blue sold for $375,000 to lead the New York-bred offerings during Book 2 at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale Wednesday and Thursday in Lexington.

James Harron Bloodstock purchased Betsy Blue, sold as Hip 505 by Ballysax Bloodstock, agent for Forever Spring Farm LLC. The 6-year-old Tonalist mare was sold in foal to champion and classic winner Nyquist.

Bred by Blue Devil Racing Stable LLC and foaled at Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag, Betsy Blue won 10 of 24 starts with eight seconds and three thirds for $702,010 in earnings.

Campaigned by Cloud Nine Stable and trainer Linda Rice, Betsy Blue won the 2021 Bouwerie Stakes at Belmont Park, 2022 Garland of Roses Stakes at Aqueduct and 2023 Interborough Stakes at Aqueduct. She also finished third in the Grade 3 Go for Wand Stakes late in her 4-year-old campaign in 2022. Betsy Blue was a finalist for champion New York-bred older dirt female honors in 2022.

Betsy Blue, who is out of the winning Yonaguska mare Honest to Betsy, previously sold for $110,000 to Foundation Bloodstock at the 2023 Keeneland November sale.

Book 2 also saw the sale of stakes winner Curly Girl, a 5-year-old daughter of Nyquist who brought $280,000 from Frederick & May Construction. Sold as Hip 951 by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, Curly Girl was in foal to two-time champion sprinter Elite Power.

Bred by Denlea Park LTD, foaled at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, Curly Girl is the fifth foal out of the winning Forest Wildcat mare Falconess. She won four of 18 starts and earned $172,764 for owner Henry Steadman and trainer Paul Barrow. 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.

Hip 410, a colt by Olympiad bred by Sequel Thoroughbreds LLC, Robert Cromartie and Tuscany Bloodstock, sold for $175,000 during Book 2 at Keeneland November. Photo courtesy of Sequel New York.

Hip 410, a colt from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Olympiad, brought the highest price for a New York-bred weanling in Book 2 on a $175,000 bid from Teddy Town.

Bred by Sequel Thoroughbreds LLC, Robert Cromartie and Tuscany Bloodstock, foaled at Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson and consigned by Sequel New York, the colt is the fourth foal out of the Grade 3-winning New York-bred Rock Hard Ten mare Summersault. A winner of seven of 34 starts, including the Grade 3 Orchid Stakes in 2017 at Gulfstream Park, Summersault earned $503,443 for owner White Fox Farm and trainer Mark Hennig.

Summersault, carrying the Olympiad colt in utero, sold for $170,000 to Wildridge, agent, at last year’s Keeneland November sale.

Hip 652, a daughter of Grade 1 winner Yaupon, landed the top price for a New York-bred weanling filly on a bid of $150,000 from Final Furlong Racing. Bred by and foaled at H&H Farms Inc. in Fort Edward and consigned by Vinery Sales, the filly is the second foal out of the unraced Violence mare Lesson Learned.

Keeneland reported sales on 13 of the 15 New York-breds offered during Book 2 for total receipts of $1,685,000, an average price of $129,615 and median of $80,000. Overall through the first two books and three sessions, 18 of 21 New York-breds through the ring have sold for $2,665,000, an average price of $148,056 and median of $120,000.

Through the first three sessions, nine of 10 New York-bred weanlings have sold for $915,000, an average price of $101,667 and median of $80,000.

The sale continues with the first of two Book 3 sessions at 10 a.m. Friday.

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.

Stakes winner Downtown Mischief, offered in foal to leading sire Gun Runner, sold for $800,000 Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November sale. Photo courtesy of Bedouin Bloodstock.

Stakes winner Downtown Mischief sold for $800,000 and four weanling fillies brought six-figure bids apiece to highlight the New York-bred offerings at Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November mixed sale in Lexington.

Freyer Bloodstock purchased Downtown Mischief, a 4-year-old daughter of Into Mischief offered in foal to leading sire Gun Runner as Hip 242 out of the Bedouin Bloodstock consignment.

Bred and campaigned by Sheila Rosenblum’s Lady Sheila Stable and foaled at Edition Farm in Hyde Park, Downtown Mischief won four of eight starts with two placings and earned $237,730. She clicked off three straight victories to start her career for trainer Linda Rice, including a win over open company in the Cicada Stakes in March 2023 at Aqueduct. Downtown Mischief also won the Bouwerie Stakes at Belmont Park as a 3-year-old in addition to a runner-up finish in the Memories Of Silver Stakes at Aqueduct.

Downtown Mischief is the first foal out of the three-time winning Speightstown mare Downtown Mama, who was purchased by Rice on behalf of Lady Sheila for $440,000 at the 2016 OBS April 2-year-olds in training sale. Downtown Mama is also the dam of the placed Miss Welch, a filly by Maclean’s Music who sold for $190,000 at the 2024 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-year-old sale.

Fasig-Tipton’s “Night of the Stars Sale,” which posted total sales of more than $93 million and an average of more than $546,000, also saw four New York-bred weanling fillies sell for $120,000 or more.

Hip 152, a daughter of Jackie’s Warrior bred by Emcee Stable and Fortune Farm, brought top price for New York-bred weanling Tuesday at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky. Photo courtesy of Legacy Bloodstock.

Hip 152, a daughter of champion sprinter Jackie’s Warrior and half-sister to stakes winner Dirty, brought the top price for a New York-bred weanling on a bid of $200,000 from Susan Naylor. Bred by Emcee Stable and Fortune Farm and foaled at Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater, the filly is out of the winning Yes It’s True mare Martini.

Consigned by Legacy Bloodstock, the top filly is a half to three winners and an unnamed unraced 2-year-old colt by Volatile. Dirty won four of 20 starts with seven placings, including a victory in the 2019 King T. Leatherbury Stakes at Laurel Park, and earned $245,815. Martini is also the dam of four-time winner and $145,669-earner Vodkatini and the five-time winner and $128,336-earner Nine Martinis.

Hip 128, a daughter of Grade 1 winner and fourth-crop sire Practical Joke, sold for $155,000 to Rexy Bloodstock. Bred by Lambholm South, foaled at Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater and consigned by Frankfort Park Farm, agent, the filly is the first foal out of the winning Kitten’s Joy mare Joyous Times.

Joyous Times, who posted a record of 2-4-1 in 11 starts with $86,830 in earnings, is out of the stakes-winning English Channel mare La Malaguena. She was purchased by Lambholm, agent, for $20,000 at last year’s Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.

Hip 109, a filly from the first crop of Grade 1 winner and $1,825,131-earner Golden Pal, landed a final bid of $130,000 from Wildridge Bloodstock. Bred by Final Furlong Racing Stable, foaled at River Valley Farm in Gansevoort and consigned by Ballysax Bloodstock, agent, the filly is the sixth foal out of the stakes-placed Freud mare Fenwick Hall.

Fenwick Hall, a full sister to multiple stakes winner Miss Narcissist, is the dam of winners Inspector, Freud Sense and Prince Orb, along with the 2-year-old New York-bred Outwork filly Undergrad and a New York-bred yearling colt by Street Boss. Final Furlong bred all of Fenwick Hall’s foals.

Seismic Activity, a filly from the first crop of 2022 champion 3-year-old and Travers Stakes winner Epicenter, brought $120,000 from First Finds. Bred by Flatbird Stable, foaled at Rockridge Stud in Hudson and offered as Hip 22 out of the Vinery Sales consignment, the filly is the first foal out of the Kitten’s Joy mare Soft Shoe Kitten. Flatbird Stable bought the mare in foal to Epicenter for $60,000 at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Digital February sale.

Soft Shoe Kitten is a full sister to stakes-placed Kitten’s Dancer, the dam of stakes-placed winner Beach Waltz; and a half-sister to Grade 1 winner and $1,661,635-earner Bigger Picture and stakes winner and $340,038-earner Gung Ho.

Fasig-Tipton reported sales on five of the eight New York-bred weanlings through the ring for a total of $685,000, an average price of $137,000. Overall and including broodmares and broodmare prospects, nine of 14 New York-breds sold for $2,085,000, an average price of $231,667.

The fall mixed sales slate moves across town with the start of the nine-day Keeneland November breeding stock sale at 1 p.m. Tuesday.