Dubawi filly brings $1.45 million at Keeneland

Lane's End, agent, sold a Dubawi filly out of its 2003 Epsom Oaks (Eng-G1)

winner Casual Look (Red Ransom) for $1.45 million to Flaxman Holdings Ireland

Limited on Wednesday at the third session of the Keeneland September Yearling

Sale. Bred in England, the February 27-foaled filly toured the ring as Hip No.

508.

"That was a big number, but she's by Dubawi and there aren't a lot of them on

the market, and she's out of an Oaks winner, so we're very pleased to get her,"

said Charlie Vaughan-Fowler of Flaxman Stables. "She's an absolutely beautiful

filly who handled the sale very well."

Vaughan-Fowler said the session topper would return to Europe.

Casual Look, who earned $604,442 and also placed in Grade/Group 1 events such

as the Irish Oaks, Fillies' Mile, and Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, has

produced one stakes-placed offspring, the Bernardini colt Casual Trick.

Casual Look is herself a full sister to Grade 1-placed stakes winner Shabby

Chic, the dam of Italian highweight and classic winner Fashion Statement

(Rainbow Quest). Farther back, this family produced Irish Derby winner *Meadow

Court (Court Harwell) and Grade 1 vixen Charleston Rag (General Assembly).

Stonereath Stud went to $1.1 million for a daughter of Tiznow consigned by

Stone Farm, agent. The February 9 Kentucky-bred sported Hip 549.

"We knew she was very popular," Arthur Hancock of Stone Farm said. "A lot of

people liked her. She's a big strong filly, and she'll make a good broodmare in

the future. She has an impeccable pedigree, wonderful disposition, all of that.

When you're gonna buy the whole diamond, you gotta pay some money for it."

Baccari Bloodstock, agent, successfully pinhooked a Bernardini colt earlier

in the session. Bought for $300,000 as a weanling at the Keeneland November

sale, Hip 413 was gaveled down to Teruo Ono for $925,000 on Wednesday.

The March 15 Florida-bred was produced by Yellow Heat (Gold Fever), who is

already the dam of Grade 1 winner R Heat Lightning and the stakes-placed Hot

Trip, both by Trippi. The colt's fourth dam was Exclusive Dancer (Native

Dancer), a three-quarter sister to noted sire Exclusive Native (Raise a Native)

whose descendents include Grade/Group 1 winners General Assembly (Secretariat),

Versailles Treaty (Danzig), George Vancouver (Henrythenavigator) and Chief

Honcho (Chief's Crown).

"I felt like when we bought him as a foal he was the kind of horse that he

could become a really good stallion with that kind of pedigree," Chris Baccari

said. "It's hard to find that type of pedigree with that kind of racy look."

Business was down across the board at the conclusion of trading. On

Wednesday, 104 yearlings sold for $29,615,000, a decline of 29.3 percent over

the corresponding session in 2013 when 135 horses sold for $41,890,000. The

session average dipped 8.2 percent, from $310,296 to $284,760, while the median

was off 16.7 percent, from $240,000 to $200,000.