Booklet colt brings $500,000

Hip No. 2804, a colt from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Booklet (Notebook), sold for

the top price of $500,000 to John Brocklebank, agent, at Tuesday's session of

the Keeneland September Yearling Sale in Lexington, Kentucky.

The bay is the fourth foal out of the unraced Wavering Monarch mare Fees

Waived, a half-sister to Grade 1-placed American System (American Chance). His

second dam is the Grade 3-placed Profit System (Copelan). The colt previously

sold for $77,000 at the 2005 Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Fall Mixed Sale.

The session topper was consigned by Vinery Ltd.

A lass by Petionville, Hip 2630, was the top filly, selling for $250,000 to

Taylor Stables. Consigned by Pope McLean (Crestwood Farm), agent, the chestnut

is a full sister to 2000 Selima S. winner Haitian Vacation, who won three races

and earned $151,653.

She is out of So Unusual (Nijinsky II), a half-sister to multiple stakes

winner Shareefa (Fabuleux Dancer), the dam of Grade 1 winner and $772,334-earner

Vergennes (Dynaformer). The Kentucky-bred filly is from the same female family

as two-time Grade 1 winner Nijinsky's Secret (Nijinsky II).

On Tuesday, the sales company reported 294 horses sold for $15,115,500, a 17

percent increase over the same session last year when 283 horses sold for

$12,917,500. The average

price rose 12.6 percent, from $45,645 to $51,413, and the median price increased

8.1 percent, from $37,000 to $40,000.

Through the first eight days of the 14-day auction, 2,023 horses have sold for

a total of $365,071,000, an increase of 3.5 percent compared with 2005 when

2,058 horses sold for an aggregate of $352,576,500. The average price is up 5.3

percent, from $171,320 to $180,460, and the median price has jumped 12.5

percent, from $80,000 to $90,000.

For complete results, visit keeneland.com.

The sale resumes at 10 a.m. (EDT) Wednesday.