Emerald Gal shines in fifth session of Keeneland November

Barbara Banke's Stonestreet paid $320,000 for the broodmare

EMERALD GAL, dam of recent Grade 2 winner Sarah Sis, and spent $260,000 for a

weanling colt by Curlin to secure the two top-priced horses of Friday's fifth

session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Through the first five days of the 12-day sale, Keeneland

has sold 968 horses for $178,778,000, up 7.41 percent from the corresponding

period in 2014 when 1,046 horses brought $166,443,000. The average price of

$184,688 stands 16.07 percent higher than the $159,123 in 2014, while the median

of $100,000 is up 11.11 percent over last year's $90,000.

For the session, 236 horses sold for a total of

$14,099,000, down 9.26 percent from last year's session gross of $15,538,500 for

257 horses. The average price of $59,742 was similar to the $60,461 posted in

2014. The median of $45,000 was 10 percent lower than last year's $50,000.

Consigned by Select Sales, agent, the session-topping

Emerald Gal is the dam of Sarah Sis, a multiple graded stakes winner who won the

Raven Run S. (G2) on October 17 at Keeneland. Emerald Gal is a nine-year-old

winning daughter of Gilded Time out of the End Sweep mare Wancha Back. She was

sold in foal to Street Sense.