Keeneland January begins with 1,796-strong catalog

Keeneland January begins with 1,796-strong catalog

Keeneland kicks off its 58th January Horses of All Ages

Sale on Monday with a total of 1,796 horses cataloged. Among them are prominent

broodmares and broodmare prospects, yearlings by leading North American sires

and horses of racing age. The sale runs through Friday, January 15.

The January Sale catalog includes 624 broodmares, 181

broodmare prospects, 729 yearlings, 251 horses of racing age and 11 stallions

and stallion prospects. Broodmares are in foal to many leading sires of 2015,

which also are represented by yearlings in the sale.

The catalog includes such notable offerings as My Limit,

dam of recent La Brea (G1) winner Birdatthewire, in foal to Giant's Causeway.

Cataloged as a racing or broodmare prospect is Wickedly Smart, a winner in

England and a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Wickedly Perfect, dam of recent

Japanese Grade 2 winner and undefeated sophomore Hartley.

Broodmares offered are in foal to 168 prominent stallions,

including Bernardini, Bodemeister, Declaration of War, Ghostzapper, Giant's

Causeway, Hard Spun, Lemon Drop Kid, Malibu Moon, More Than Ready, Orb, Scat

Daddy, Shanghai Bobby, Uncle Mo and Union Rags.

The January Sale also is noted as a marketplace for short

yearlings, foals of 2015 who officially turned a year old on January 1. Among

the 2015 stakes winners sold as yearlings at the sale are Grade 1 winners Ball

Dancing and Twilight Eclipse; Grade 2 winners Alert Bay, Bailoutbobby, Call Me

George, Conquest Daddyo, Fioretti and Tower of Texas; and Grade 3 winner Far

Right.

The 191 stallions represented by yearlings in the catalog

include such top sires as Bodemeister, Curlin, Distorted Humor, Into Mischief,

Kitten's Joy, Malibu Moon, More Than Ready, Orb, Pioneerof the Nile, Scat Daddy,

Shanghai Bobby, Street Cry, Street Sense, Super Saver, Uncle Mo, Union Rags and

War Front.

The auction also includes three dispersals: Black Rock

Thoroughbreds, consigned by Blake-Albina Thoroughbred Services, agent; the

Estate of Eric A. Delvalle, consigned by Brandywine Farm, agent; and the part

dispersal of the Estate of Sarah J. Leigh, consigned by Denali Stud, agent.

Sessions begin at 10 a.m. (ET) each day. The sale will be

streamed live on keeneland.com.