The 82nd Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale has cataloged 3,075 horses over a span of eight days beginning Nov. 4 and running through Nov. 11, with the stand-alone Keeneland November Horses of Racing Age Sale Nov. 12. Click here to view the November sale catalog, which features exciting broodmare prospects along with proven mares in foal to prominent stallions and well-bred weanlings by established stallions and popular young sires.
Among the horses in the catalog are the first mares in foal to such stallions as 2024 Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Seize the Grey , 2024 Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Dornoch , and 2024 Breeders' Cup Mile (G1T) winner More Than Looks along with the first weanlings by stallions including 2023 Horse of the Year Cody's Wish and 2023 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mage .
The November Breeding Stock Sale will open with a single-day Book 1 with a select group of 213 broodmares, broodmare prospects, and weanlings in the catalog. The session begins at 2 p.m. ET. Keeneland will accept select supplements to Book 1 until the auction starts.
The November Sale catalog also includes these offerings:
- Dispersal of Bonne Chance Thoroughbreds: Gainesway is consigning seven broodmares and six weanlings. Hidden Brook is consigning 10 broodmares, one broodmare prospect, and one weanling.
- Dispersal of Woodford Thoroughbreds (Phase 1): Denali Stud is handling the sale of seven broodmares and one broodmare prospect. Taylor Made Sales Agency is consigning three racing or broodmare prospects.
- Previously announced curated reduction of bloodstock owned by Leonard and Jon Green's D.J. Stable: Taylor Made Sales Agency is consigning 23 broodmares, seven racing or broodmare prospects, and one broodmare prospect. Hill 'n Dale at Xalapa is consigning one mare in foal to Curlin .
"With the November Breeding Stock Sale, we carry forward the tremendous momentum of our record September Yearling Sale," Keeneland vice president of sales Tony Lacy said. "The September sale underscored the power of this community when we stand together, and the quality of the offerings in November give us reason to be optimistic about the road ahead."
Print catalogs for the November sale are scheduled to arrive in the mail the week of Oct. 13.
Sale schedule
The catalog for the November Breeding Stock Sale includes 1,360 weanlings along with 1,715 broodmares and broodmare prospects; racing or broodmare prospects; and stallions and stallion prospects. The auction will present the following schedule:
Book 1 (Session 1)—Nov. 4. Session will begin at 2 p.m. with 213 horses in the catalog.
Every remaining session begins at 10 a.m.:
Book 2 (Sessions 2-3)—Nov. 5-6. A total of 790 horses are cataloged over the two days.
Book 3 (Sessions 4-5)—Nov. 7-8. A total of 837 horses are cataloged over the two days.
Book 4 (Sessions 6-8)—Nov. 9-11. A total of 1,235 horses are cataloged over the three days.
This year, Keeneland has adjusted the format of Book 4 to include three sessions. Sessions 6 and 7, which comprise the regularly scheduled Book 4, will sell Nov. 9-10. On Nov. 11, Sessions 8 and 9 will be combined into a single day of selling. Horses cataloged to session 8 will sell in the morning and will be immediately followed by horses cataloged to session 9. Consignors with horses in session 9 will sell those horses in the afternoon of session 8, with the morning hours available for showing.
"This adjustment means buyers have a full day of breeding stock to evaluate, rather than two shorter sessions at the close of the sale," Keeneland senior director of sales operations Cormac Breathnach said. "We believe this format will maintain the dynamic marketplace for all participants."
November Sire Strength
Broodmares cataloged to the November Breeding Stock sale are in foal to 156 stallions, including American Pharoah , Bolt d'Oro , Candy Ride , City of Light , Constitution , Curlin, Flightline , Good Magic , Gun Runner , Hard Spun , Into Mischief , Justify , Liam's Map , Life Is Good , Maclean's Music , Maxfield , Medaglia d'Oro , McKinzie , Munnings , Not This Time , Nyquist , Omaha Beach , Practical Joke , Quality Road , Street Sense , Tapit , Twirling Candy , Vekoma, and War Front .
Joining the aforementioned Seize the Grey, Dornoch, and More Than Looks as stallions with their first in-foal mares in the catalog are such sires as grade 1 winners Arabian Knight , Blazing Sevens , Bright Future , Casa Creed , Classic Causeway , Cogburn , Domestic Product , Gun Pilot , Kingsbarns , Muth , National Treasure , Newgate , Prince of Monaco , Shirl's Speight , Tapit Trice , and Timberlake ; and grade 2 winner Charge It .
A total of 140 stallions have weanlings in the catalog, including the aforementioned Cody's Wish and Mage. Other stallions with first-crop weanlings include champions Elite Power , Forte , and Up to the Mark ; 2021 Preakness winner Rombauer ; 2023 Belmont winner Arcangelo ; and grade 1 winners Annapolis , Arabian Lion , Country Grammer , Dr. Schivel , Gunite , Proxy , Taiba , and Zandon ; grade 2 winner Pappacap ; and grade 3 winners Fulsome and Two Phil's .
Weanlings become Grade 1 winners
Weanlings who are graduates of the November Breeding Stock Sale include these 2025 graded stakes winners as of Sept. 30:
- Grade 1—Ag Bullet (Jaipur Stakes), Bottle of Rouge (Del Mar Debutante Stakes).
- Grade 2—Bear River (Kentucky Turf Sprint Stakes), Crazy Mason (Carter Stakes), Gal in a Rush (Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes), Idratherbeblessed (Muniz Memorial Classic Stakes), Indy Bay (Charles Towns Oaks), Katonah (San Pasqual Stakes), Magnitude (Risen Star Stakes), Nysos (San Diego Handicap), Ole Crazy Bone (Kentucky Turf Cup Invitational Stakes).
- Grade/group 3—Caitlinhergrtness (Belle Mahone and Ontario Matron stakes), Bracket Buster (Oklahoma Derby), Desert Gate (Best Pal Stakes), Destino d'Oro (Pucker Up Stakes), Funtastic Again (Dominion Day Stakes), Owen Almighty (Tampa Bay Derby), Qareeb (Jebel Ali Mile), Rattle N Roll (Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup), Regaled (Delaware Handicap), Speed King (Southwest Stakes).
The catalog for the Keeneland November Horses of Racing Age Sale is scheduled to be online Oct. 15. Keeneland will accept approved supplements for the auction until the Nov. 12 sale day.
This press release has been edited for content and style by BloodHorse Staff.
