Jak Knelman

LEXINGTON, KY - The Knelman family's Farfellow Farm, which had a memorable Keeneland September sale three years ago with a million-dollar yearling followed by a $700,000 session topper in Book 3, could have another Book 3 star on its hands with a colt by Good Magic (hip 1301). The yearling received the most timely of updates when his full-brother Mixto captured the Aug. 31 GI Pacific Classic. "The Mixto full-brother is making everybody's list and then we have others that are hitting, so knock on wood, it should be an...

Tributes continue to come in in honor of industry innovator and Siena Farm owner Anthony Manganaro, who passed away suddenly Sunday in Saratoga. Craig Bandoroff, Denali Stud Anthony Manganaro wasn't out to make friends. He was out to change an industry he loved. He was a street fighter, a former labor organizer, and he was willing to fight. When one idea hit a dead end, he came up with another one and another one and, well, you get the idea. He never gave up in his mission to make the...

LEXINGTON, KY - With five sessions of selling still to come, the 2021 Keeneland September Yearling Sale surpassed the total gross of its 12-session 2020 renewal during a final Book 3 session which featured competitive bidding through to the very end Sunday night in Lexington. By the end of business Sunday, 1,169 yearlings had sold during six sessions for a total of $278,883,000. The auction's total 2020 gross, recorded during the uncertainty of the pre-vaccination pandemic, was $200,750,700. During the two-session Book 3, 571 yearlings sold for $80,011,500 for an...

A colt by Street Sense became the second of the day to sell for $1 million when bloodstock agent Liz Crow, sitting alongside Brad Weisbord and Spendthrift Farm's Ned Toffey, signed the ticket on hip 1022 late in the fourth session of the Keeneland September sale Thursday. Crow and Weisbord have been busy all week buying yearlings for their colts group partnership. Prior to their million-dollar purchase in partnership with Spendthrift, they had acquired 16 yearlings for $4,980,000. Bred and consigned by the Knelman family's Farfellow Farms, the yearling is...