Pulpit half-sister highlights third session of Keeneland November

TELL IT (Storm Cat), a half-sister to top sire Pulpit, brought a winning bid

of $540,000 from Blandford Bloodstock to top Thursday's third session of the

Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. Consigned by Claiborne Farm, agent, as

Hip No. 649, the chestnut mare was sold in foal to Candy Ride.

Tell It was stakes-placed on track, racking up $162,283 in earnings to go

along with her 18-4-2-2 career mark. The 15-year-old mare has been successful in

the breeding shed as well, producing stakes winner Dream Nettie (Dixie Union).

Tell It is herself a daughter of Grade 1 queen Preach (Mr. Prospector),

making her a half-sister to multiple Grade 2-winning leading sire Pulpit as well

as Group 3-placed Urban Poet (Dynaformer). This is the same female family as top

sires Tale of the Cat and Johannesburg as well as Irish champion and English

highweight Minardi.

Tell It's fourth dam is Monarch (*Princequillo), a full sister to Horse of

the Year and Hall of Famer Round Table.

SPRING PARTY (Smart Strike) entered the ring as Hip 620 from the Taylor Made

Sales Agency, agent, consignment, and exited the property of Stonestreet

Thoroughbred Holdings after a final bid of $525,000. The six-year-old mare is

carrying her first foal, who is by Unbridled's Song.

Spring Party captured last year's Wintergreen Stakes at Turfway Park and also

placed in the Decoration Day Handicap at Mountaineer Park. Following an unplaced

run at Oaklawn Park in January, she headed to the breeding shed with a 21-6-3-3,

$202,077, resume.

Spring Party previously sold for $150,000 as a Keeneland September yearling

before RNAing at $160,000 at last year's Keeneland November sale.

The highest-priced weanling on Thursday came when BG Stables paid $295,000

for Hip 503, a bay colt by Bernardini. The Kentucky-bred son of Mining My

Business (Mining) was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.

The February 7-born foal is a half-brother to Grade 2 winner Real Cozzy

(Cozzene), who placed in the 2001 runnings of the Kentucky Oaks, Mother Goose

and Acorn, all Grade 1s. His dam is herself a half-sister to champion sire Real

Quiet (Quiet American), who just missed sweeping the 1998 Triple Crown when

running second by a nose in the Belmont Stakes.

This is the same female line as English champion and sire Crowned Prince

(Raise a Native) as well as that one's full brother and another near misser in

the Triple Crown series, Majestic Prince, who also lost the series when running

second in the 1969 Belmont.