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The Keeneland September Yearling Sale proved more than able to live up to its record-setting 2017 edition, concluding Sunday in Lexington with a record average and the fourth-highest gross in sale history. "We were optimistic that it was going to be a terrific sale," Keeneland's Vice President of Racing and Sales Bob Elliston said Sunday. "But to be $70-million plus over the gross of last year and to have 27 millionaires, versus 13 last year, and to see the strength of the market carrying on through Book 5, quite honestly,...

Undefeated Triple Crown winner and 'TDN Rising Star' Justify (Scat Daddy), who settled in at Coolmore America's Ashford Stud last Monday, will stand for a fee of $150,000 in 2019, it was announced Sunday. Justify will join 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile), who will stand for $110,000, and dominant leading fourth-crop sire Uncle Mo (Indian Charlie), whose fee has been set at $125,000, as the headliners on the Ashford roster. A son of the late Scat Daddy, Justify took the sport by storm, capturing each of...

The Breeders' Cup could be on the agenda for Roaring Lion (Kitten's Joy), trainer John Gosden revealed at Newmarket's Open Weekend on Sunday. "I'm very happy with Roaring Lion and we are pointing towards the [G1] Champion S. at Ascot on Oct. 20," he said. "The Breeders' Cup comes pretty sharply after Champions Day. If it was heavy he wouldn't run at Ascot, but if it was good to soft he would run as he has won on it before." Gosden said the meeting's showpiece $6-million Breeders' Cup Classic on...

As the clock ticks ever closer to the start of the October Sale at Tattersalls on Oct. 9, the team at Park Paddocks has been kept busier than usual making some pretty serious updates to a range of yearlings' pages. "I don't think I've ever known a year like it for updates," says Marketing Director Jimmy George. "I thought last year's catalogue was as good a Book 1 as we'd seen since we went to this format, but this compares pretty favourably." "There is a reason these horses are in...

Making his first start since suffering the first 'defeat' of his career in the GII San Felipe S. better than six months ago, 'TDN Rising Star' McKinzie (Street Sense) belied his inactivity with a comfortable 1 3/4-length victory in Saturday's GI Pennsylvania Derby, giving trainer Bob Baffert his third win in the race in the last five years (subsequent GI Breeders' Cup Classic hero Bayern, 2013; champion West Coast, 2017). "If anything can take the sting of a Triple Crown horse retiring (recent retirement of Justify), it is a horse...

In a couple of previous head-to-head battles, Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) had easily handled Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute), besting her by 4 1/4 lengths in the GI Kentucky Oaks in May ahead of a three-length success in the GI CCA Oaks in July. Monomoy Girl was heavily favored to continue her domination in Saturday's $1-million GI Cotillion S. at Parx, but she got to wandering about in the final sixteenth of a mile and was demoted to second for carrying out Midnight Bisou, who couldn't quite get past late. "It was...

MILAN, Italy—Just as last year, the name next to the top lot of the SGA Sale was Diego Romeo's Scuderia Incolinx, which went to €90,000 to secure a son of Dawn Approach (Ire) from the draft of Le.Gi Stud. Lot 86 is out of the unraced Tale of the Cat mare Snowfield who has made up for the absence of a track record by breeding three black-type horses, including treble Group 3 winner Voice Of Love (Ire) (Poet's Voice {GB}) and the Group 3 and five-time listed winner Time Chant...

He may have taken a while to get there, but Saturday saw Kessaar (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) place himself firmly among the higher echelons of the juvenile division as he romped to an emphatic success in Newbury's G2 Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef S. Always on the front foot as Frankie Dettori sought to exploit his experience, the Sept. 8 G3 Sirenia S. winner was tackled and headed by True Mason (GB) (Mayson {GB}) with a quarter mile remaining but was back in charge less than a furlong later and surged...

The brilliant 3-year-old filly Monomoy Girl (Tapizar), a perfect five-for-five this season, gets back to business in Saturday's GI Cotillion S. at Parx. The GI Kentucky Oaks heroine, freshened following an easy win over Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute) and Chocolate Martini (Broken Vow) in the GI Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga July 22, seeks her fifth straight win at the top level. Monomoy Girl worked a bullet five furlongs for trainer Brad Cox in 1:00 2/5 (1/33) at Churchill Downs Sept. 9. The aforementioned GII Mother Goose S. heroine...

'TDN Rising Star' McKinzie (Street Sense), sidelined with a hock injury this spring after being disqualified from first and placed second in a roughly run renewal of the GII San Felipe S. Mar. 10, makes his highly anticipated return in Saturday's GI Pennsylvania Derby. Awarded last term's GI Los Alamitos Cash Call Futurity via disqualification, the bay captured the GIII Sham S. at Santa Anita Jan. 6 in his only other appearance this year. McKinzie, owned in partnership by Karl Watson, Mike Pegram and Paul Weitman, tuned up for this...

MILAN, Italy—Even before it has started the SGA Select Yearling Sale is already up on last year in that the catalogue has almost doubled in size. For many sales companies in the current climate that would be a concern, but in Milan it is cause for cheer, with the number of yearlings sent to the country's main sale having fallen to just 98 in 2017. That coincided with a change of venue to 'La Maura' trotting track next to San Siro racecourse and in its second year at new premises,...

Joanna Morgan has successfully turned her hand to several different roles throughout her career in racing. She has been a trail-blazing jockey, a Royal Ascot-winning trainer, a bloodstock agent and is currently a yearling consigner through her Portlester Stud. Morgan will have her hands full at Tattersalls Ireland next week when she offers a draft of five yearlings in the two-day September Yearling Sale with a further three in Part II of the sale on Thursday. Morgan has never been one to sugarcoat a situation and she surprised many when...