Lovely Regina brings $370,000 in foal to Flashback at Keeneland November

Graded stakes producer LOVELY REGINA, a half-sister to

champion and leading sire Bernardini in foal to Flashback, topped Saturday's

sixth of 12 sessions of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale when she sold

for $370,000 to Baccari Bloodstock. 

Cumulatively, Keeneland has sold 1,206 horses for

$190,531,000, a 5.6 percent increase in total sales compared to figures from the

same point of the 2014 sale when 1,321 horses brought $180,429,500. Average

price of $156,986 is 15.67 percent higher than $136,586 in 2014, while the

median of $80,000 is 6.67 percent above $75,000 last year.

On Saturday during the second of two sessions in Book 3,

238 horses sold for $11,753,000, 15.97 percent below the gross sales of the

corresponding session last year when 275 horses brought $13,986,500. The average

of $49,382 dipped slightly from $50,860 last year, and the median of $40,000 was

just below $42,000 in 2014.

Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency, agent, consigned Lovely Regina,

a four-year-old daughter of Deputy Minister and the Grade 1-winning Quiet

American mare Cara Rafaela. In addition to the aforementioned Bernardini, she is

a half-sister to Grade 1 stakes-placed Ile de France, dam of Grace 1 winner Love

and Pride.