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Between 1974 and 1988, yearlings sired by Northern Dancer led the Keeneland July Selected Yearling Sale by average price 12 times. In the 1983 Keeneland Sales horse auction, one of Northern Dancer's colts, eventually named Snaafi Dancer , became the first yearling to sell for $10 million at auction.
September - Yearling; This sale, the world's largest sale of yearlings, has been conducted at various times in the fall since 1944, and was permanently moved to September in 1960. Keeneland accepts all horses nominated to sale, making it the largest market for Thoroughbred yearlings in the world.
Known Agenda was offered for sale at the Fasig-Tipton sales as a yearling in August 2019. Bloodstock advisor John Sparkman, who had recommended the breeding, described the colt as "very well-made, correct, [a] beautiful walker." Nevertheless, the colt did not meet his reserve on a final bid of $135,000.
One of the most famous horse auctions in the world is the Keeneland yearling sale in Kentucky, where young Thoroughbred yearlings are put up for sale to the highest bidder, generally selling for prices in the five and six figures, but sometimes bringing prices in the millions. The world of halter exhibition is another area of controversy.
Muth is a bay colt who was bred by the Don Alberto Corporation, out of the winning Uncle Mo mare Hoppa. Muth is the mare's first foal. Muth was first sold in 2022 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale as part of the Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency consignment for US$190,000 to the Bishop Bloodstock.
Almanzor is a bay horse with no white markings bred in Normandy by the Haras d'Etreham. In August 2014 the yearling colt was offered for sale at Deauville and bought for €100,000 by the leading French trainer Jean-Claude Rouget. [2]
They purchased the colt from Gainesway for $550,000 at the 2021 Keeneland September yearling sale. [5] His dam Georgie's Angel, won the 2011 Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga for the breeders of Cave Rock, Anne and Ronnie Sheffer Racing who were part owners of mare. Georgie's Angel has produced four winners from five starters, including three ...
He was bought in 1978 at the Keeneland yearling sale by Stavros Niarchos for US$1.3 million ($6.1 million inflation adjusted), [1] at the time the second-highest paid price ever paid for a yearling—behind only Canadian Bound. [2] Niarchos named the colt in honor of the famous ballet dancer, Rudolf Nureyev.