Keeneland Catalogs 1,046 for January Mixed Sale
Keeneland's January Horses of All Ages Sale, which produced 2025 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) winner Shisospicy, has cataloged 1,046 horses for the 70th edition of the auction, which will cover two sessions Jan. 12 and 13 that each begin at 10 a.m. ET. The catalog includes broodmares and broodmare prospects, newly turned yearlings, horses of racing age, and stallion prospects. "The January Sale is where breeders and owners are able to launch the new year with confidence," said Keeneland vice president of sales Tony Lacy. "The auction, which is scheduled just before the start of breeding season, is an ideal platform to showcase broodmares, broodmare prospects, short yearlings, and racehorses to a global audience of buyers." See the online 2026 January Horses All Ages Sale catalog Keeneland sold 723 horses during the 2025 January sale for a gross of $35,125,900. The 240 broodmares sold at that sale averaged $47,187. Racing or broodmare prospects, of which 96 sold, had the highest average of all hip types at $75,377. Short yearlings (381 sold) averaged $43,178. Print catalogs for the January Sale are scheduled to be mailed around Dec. 17. Premier offerings in the January Sale catalog who already have been announced are: Simply in Front, a grade 1 winner and $2.8 million earner who is a 4-year-old daughter of Summer Front. She is consigned by Richard G. Hogan, agent for Colebrook Farms, and cataloged as a broodmare prospect. Tiffany Case, dam of top-ranked 3-year-old filly Nitrogen, who is in foal to Not This Time. Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, consigns the 12-year-old mare, a winning stakes-placed daughter of Uncle Mo whose two foals to race are both stakes winners. The first round of supplements to the January Sale are to be announced Dec. 11. The January Sale will be livestreamed at Keeneland.com. Shisospicy is among the 2025 graded stakes winners who was offered as a yearling at the January sale. Sold for $100,000 at the 2023 January Sale out of the Taylor Made Sales Agency consignment, Shisospicy captured the Nov. 1 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) at Del Mar to boost her 2025 record to five wins in seven starts with earnings of more than $2 million. Additional 2025 graded stakes winners offered as yearlings at the January Sale include Charlene's Dream (Beverly D. Stakes, G2T), Desvio (Sycamore Stakes, G2T), Tiztastic (Louisiana Derby, G2), Dresden Row (Autumn Stakes, G3), Ms. Tart (Royal North Stakes, G3T), Pilot Commander (San Carlos Stakes, G3) and Vixen (Herecomesthebride Stakes, G3T).