Surrender Now

Keeneland's December Digital Sale, held Tuesday, Dec. 15, reportedly has a new topper, but with a wrinkle attached--Surrender Now (Morning Line) was sold after the sale for an undisclosed price. Kim Lloyd, representative for the 5-year-old stakes-winning mare's owner, Rockingham Ranch, said the buyer, Blue Heaven Farm, requested the final price remain private. "We put her in for a reserve of $450,000," said Lloyd. "They made an offer and we got a fair price for both sides, actually." Lloyd was asked to verify if the price topped the $250,000 brought...

Keeneland, which debuted its first digital sale in June, will take perhaps its biggest swing at the on-line platform Tuesday with a December Digital Sale catalogue featuring some 70 offerings of weanlings, yearlings, broodmares and broodmare prospects and racing and stallion prospects. "We are very happy with what we came up with," Keeneland's Director of Sales Development Mark Maronde said of the strength of the catalogue. "It was kind of a surprise in that we just finished the November sales and leading into this time of year, we really didn't...