Keeneland September Sale Preview

Keeneland's September Yearling Sale begins September 10th and runs through September 21st. In total, there are 3,604 yearlings set for auction. Halves to Paynter, Bodemeister, and Rags to Riches, a quarter to AP Indy and Summer Squall, dams that fill entire pages with their progeny, and a couple other interesting ones have all caught my eye.

Couple notes first:

• The first two books more or less make up the "Select" portion of the sale. Fasig-Tipton names their first night the "Select" Keeneland does not. But for all intents and purposes that's how it works.
• Anything out of AP Indy's female family makes it into the first two books. And rightfully so. You see Weekend Surprise on the page, guaranteed to go early.
• Excited for the 50 Empire Makers in the sale especially after the good showing they had at Saratoga
  
• Lots of talk that the Henrythenavigators look really good
• There are a bunch of colts I wish were fillies instead (but I forgot to annotate which on my notes)
• 44 Smart Strikes, 49 Unbridled's Songs, and 49 Giant's Causeways in Books 1 and 2
• 26 of 27 offered Dynaformers are in Books 1 and 2.
• I'm interested to see how Sea The Stars' first crop looks

My hips to watch after the jump.

Historical results for the last 5 years of the September Sale:

Year	Offered	Sold	RNA	Gross	Average	Median	High
2011	3,689	2,921	768	$223,487,800	$76,511	$30,000	$1,400,000
2010	4,174	3,059	1,115	$198,257,900	$64,811	$25,000	$4,200,000
2009	4,360	3,159	1,201	$191,859,200	$60,734	$22,000	$2,050,000
2008	4,795	3,605	1,190	$327,999,100	$90,984	$37,000	$3,100,000
2007	4,901	3,799	1,102	$385,018,600	$101,347	$42,000	$3,700,000

Good showing last year. The high being down shouldn't be that big of a deal as the perfect storm has to occur for any horse to hit $1,000,000 let alone move all the way up to 2, 3, or 4 million.

Here's my list of horses that intrigued me (certainly not a list of any consequence, just the ones that caught my eye as I skimmed through the catalog):

Hip	Sire	Dam	BM Sire	Notes
3	Street Cry (IRE)	On a Cloud	Silver Hawk	2nd dam is huge producer
5	Unbridled's Song	Our Dani	Homebuilder	Dam of You (won $2,101,353, producer)
10	Broken Vow	Playa Maya	Arch	1/2 to Uncle Mo
30	Dixie Union	Strawberry Sense	A.P. Indy	2nd dam 5x stakes foals
32	Tiznow	Supercharger	A.P. Indy	1/2 to Super Saver
36	Smart Strike	Tabarin	El Prado (IRE)	1/4 to Sir Cherokee
39	Smart Strike	Teeming	Storm Cat	1/2 to Rags to Riches
41	Street Cry (IRE)	Tizso	Cee's Tizzy	1/2 to Paynter, 1/4 to Tiznow
45	Smart Strike	Untouched Talent	Storm Cat	1/2 to Bodemeister
48	Medaglia d'Oro	Welcome Surprise	Seeking the Gold	1/4 to AP Indy/Summer Squall
73	Tiznow	Cool Storm	Storm Cat	dam is full to Bluegrass Cat
85	Montjeu (IRE)	Eliza	Mt. Livermore	Dam fills whole page with progeny
100	Smart Strike	Hollywood Story	Wild Rush	dam won 1.17 million
106	Henrythenavigator	Jewel Princess	Key to the Mint	dam won 1.9 million
111	A.P. Indy	Lady Lochinvar	Lord At War (ARG)	loaded family of Master Command - hips 117 and 192 are from Lady Lochinvar's family as well
120	Unbridled's Song	Maggy Hawk	Hawkster	1/2 to Afleet Alex
131	Distorted Humor	Mushka	Empire Maker	love Mushka
132	Distorted Humor	My Miss Storm Cat	Sea of Secrets	1/2 to My Miss Aurelia
145	Lemon Drop Kid	Oh Pine	Pine Bluff	female family of Havre de Grace
151	Elusive Quality	Our Rite of Spring	Stravinsky	1/4 to Hard Spun
179	Istan	Pocho's Dream Girl	Fortunate Prospect	1/2 to Mark Valeski
184	Distorted Humor	Possibility	A.P. Indy	2nd dam is Personal Ensign
206	Tapit	Pure Symmetry	Storm Cat	2nd dam is Serena's Song
219	Malibu Moon	Quiet Weekend	Quiet American	Clever semi-inbreed to AP Indy - Sire line and female family
234	Flower Alley	Refinement	Seattle Slew	Full to Lilacs and Lace
246	Distorted Humor	Rockcide	Personal Flag	1/2 to Rule; 1/4 to Funny Cide
273	Henrythenavigator	Satin Sunrise	Mr. Leader	1/2 to Lionheart
303	Wildcat Heir	Shopping	Private Account	1/2 to Miss Shop; Trappe Shot
379	Distorted Humor	Swift Temper	Giant's Causeway	dam won 1.3 million
383	Pulpit	Take D' Tour	Tour d'Or	dam won 1.1 million
385	Unbridled's Song	Tale of a Lady	Tale of the Cat	family of Ghostzapper and City Zip
409	Giant's Causeway	Ticket to Seattle	Capote	1/4 to Tizway
413	Awesome Again	Tizamazing	Cee's Tizzy	dam is full to Tiznow
423	Street Cry (IRE)	Treasure Trail	Pulpit	1/4 to Zenyatta
427	English Channel	Treysta	Belong to Me	1/4 to Hard Spun
432	Tiznow	Turko's Turn	Turkoman	1/2 to Point Given

My DVR will be set to record the entirety of the sale, since it will be on HRTV.

You can view all of the entries to the September sale here at Keeneland.com.

I will not be at the sale this year, I'm hoping to make November for a few days though.