Colt by Macho Uno brings the Keeneland gavel down at $400,000

Colt by Macho Uno brings the Keeneland gavel down at

$400,000

This son of Macho Uno stood tall on a windy day in the Bluegrass (Photo by Z/Keeneland Association) A Macho Uno colt was sold to Paula C Racing Stable of Venezuela for the top price of $400,000 at Sunday's sixth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Cataloged as Hip No. 1897, the dark bay was consigned by Hidden Brook, agent for Adena Springs. The colt is out of multiple Canadian stakes heroine Bag Lady Jane (Devil's Bag). The winner of the Princess Elizabeth S. and Jammed Lovely S. and third in the Monmouth Oaks (G2), she compiled a career record of 10-4-0-3, $233,736. Bag Lady Jane is a half-sister to multiple stakes victor and Grade 2-placed Deputy Storm (Forestry). The yearling's second dam, two-time Canadian champion Deputy Jane West (Silver Deputy), won Sovereign Awards as the top two-year-old filly of 1992 and the best sophomore filly of 1993. A colt from the first crop of Grade/Group 1-winning millionaire Powerscourt (GB) went to Demi O'Byrne for $375,000. Hip 1902 was produced by Grade 2-placed Beefeater Baby (Thunder Gulch), who is a half-sister to Grade 3 winners The Seven Seas (El Gran Senor) and Royal Gem (Royal Academy). The bay youngster was offered by Blandford Stud (Padraig Campion), agent.

The day's most expensive filly, a Dixie Union yearling sporting Hip 1758,

commanded $330,000 from Sagamore Farm/Bob Feld, agent. Consigned by Brookdale

Sales, agent for Audley Farm, the bay is out of Canadian Grade 2-placed Rosthern

(Broad Brush). As a daughter of Grade 2 heroine Groovy Feeling (Groovy),

Rosthern is a three-quarters sister to stakes victor Etude (Include) and a

half-sister to the 14-time stakes-placed Take a Check (Touch Gold), whose

highest-profile effort came when third in the 2006 Delaware H. (G2).

On Sunday, 295 yearlings were sold for $27,081,500, a decline of 4.3 percent

from the $28,302,500 fetched by 288 horses at the comparable session last year.

The average decreased 6.6 percent, from $98,273 to $91,802, and the median

dropped 12.5 percent, from $80,000 to $70,000.

With the first six sessions of the 15-day sale in the books, a total of 1,412

horses changed hands for $262,457,200, resulting in an average of $185,876 and a

median of $125,000. Those numbers represent across-the-board declines of 13.5

percent for gross receipts, 13.7 percent for the average price and 10.7 percent

for the median. By this point during the 2007 auction, 1,409 yearlings realized

$303,573,700, posting a $215,453 average and a $140,000 median.

The sale continues Monday and runs through September 23, with each day's

trading opening at 10 a.m. (EDT). For more information, visit keeneland.com.