Astrology colt tops Keeneland session at $425,000

The market continued to show strength on Tuesday when a colt from the first

crop of Astrology brought a final bid of $425,000 from Stonestreet Stables and

George Bolton to top the eighth session of the Keeneland September Yearling

Sale.

Keeneland sold 292 yearlings on Tuesday, the first day of the Book 4 portion

of the sale, for $14,192,700, up 5.38 percent from the corresponding session in

2014 when the gross of $13,467,500 was recorded for 289 horses. The average of

$48,605 jumped 4.30 percent from $46,600 last year. The median of $35,000

remained the same as last year.

Through the first eight sessions of the 12-day sale, 1,796 horses sold for

$259,763,200, nearly even with last year's nine-day gross of $259,419,000 for

1,877 yearlings. The cumulative average of $144,634 was 4.65 percent higher than

last year's 138,209. The median of $95,000 was up 18.75 percent from $80,000 in

2014.

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Sweezey's Timber Town, agent, consigned the day's two

highest-priced yearlings.