First Crop Gun Runner Yearlings Sweep Into Sales Season

Gun Runner's first crop of yearlings are set for the start of the 2020 sales season. After leading his class as a first-crop weanling sire, the two-time Eclipse champion looks to make headlines again with his yearlings.

The son of Candy Ride (Arg) led all sires of first weanlings with an average of $275,923 with 13 of 14 sold, including a filly out of two-time Grade I winner Love and Pride (A.P Indy) who was the highest-priced weanling at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale, selling for $750,000 to Mike Ryan. A filly out of another dual GI winner in Pure Clan (Pure Prize) brought $475,000 at the Keeneland November Sale.

Gun Runner ranks as the most expensive stallion of his class with a fee of $70,000, a price that has stayed in place over his first three years at stud. Three Chimneys backed their sire's initial seasons in the stud barn with 171 mares in his first year, and another 166 last year.

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