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Over the years, this has become the world's largest sale of Thoroughbreds. The July Selected Yearling Sale was discontinued in 2003 and the April Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale was discontinued in 2015. From 1943 to 2002, Keeneland conducted the July Selected Yearling sale. Numerous champions, including 11 Kentucky Derby winners, were sold here.
Justify, winner of the 2018 Triple Crown, a son of Scat Daddy, purchased at the 2015 Keeneland sales for $500,000 [18] Bluegrass Cat, won the 2006 Haskell Invitational and was second in the Derby, a homebred by Storm Cat; Colonel John, won the 2008 Santa Anita Derby and Haskell Invitational, a homebred by Tiznow
Keeneland was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986, [18] for its role in the growth of the horseracing sport and its revitalization in Lexington. [19] Keeneland hosted the Breeders' Cup for the first time in 2015. The Breeders' Cup Classic was won by Triple Crown winner American Pharoah by six and a half lengths.
Goodnight Olive is a dark bay or brown mare who was bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings and Clearsky Farms and was a $170,000 purchase at the 2019 October Keeneland sale by Steve Laymon's First Row Partners. [3] Goodnight Olive is by 2004 Horse of the Year Ghostzapper.
The attendance at the 2015 Breeders' Cup set a record for the Keeneland race course. Over two days, total attendance was 95,102. [11] Attendance on Friday, October 30, at 44,947, was the highest for a Friday since the Breeders' Cup became a two-day event in 2007. [12] It also broke Keeneland's previous one-day record of 40,617, set in 2012. [11]
Articles relative to Keeneland Association Inc. which operates Keeneland Race Course and the Keeneland horse sales.
Oxbow is a dark bay horse, [2] marked with an irregularly shaped white star on his forehead and white on his lower lip. [3] He is 16 hands (64 inches, 163 cm) tall. [4] Oxbow was bred by Richard Santulli's New Jersey–based Colts Neck Stables, [5] [6] [7] and foaled in Kentucky at Burleson Farms. [8]
Medaglia d'Oro (foaled 1999, Kentucky) was a successful multiple Grade 1 Stakes winner and earned $5,754,720 in his racing career. His notable performances included wins in the 2002 Travers Stakes, 2003 Whitney Handicap, and 2004 Donn Handicap, as well as second-place finishes in the 2002 Belmont Stakes, Breeders' Cup Classic (twice, in 2002 and 2003), and 2004 Dubai World Cup.