Sale still sluggish on Day 4

The Keeneland September yearling sale remained far behind last years pace on day four, the last day before Friday's one day break in the action. Though there was a million dollar lot sold, the day's results were fairly mundane. We had very few horses shortlisted for Thursday and of the ones we liked, one had a spotty scope report and the others all landed far beyond out price range. Hip number 1215 is the second foal out of Honorable Cat, a mare that BEC purchased for breeder Ron McKee. The daughter of Gone West lacked great size but sold for $100,000 to Anthony Stroud. Honorable Cat's first foal by Vindication, a colt named Vindicat, sold last year for $170,000 at the same sale.

The session topper was a filly by Medaglia d'Oro who was a very nice horse but seemingly well sold for $1.1 million dollars. My personal favorite was hip number was 990, an outstanding Johannesburg colt consigned by Lanes End who was purchased for $260,000 for European connections. I liked hip number 1271 a filly by Street Cry but not enough to top the $125,000 they got for her. All in all, I thought that yesterdays cheaper horses weren't worth taking a flyer with and the nice ones were just too expensive. This weekend has a lot of nice horses and there were lots of lookers this afternoon despite the stifling heat. I have a long list of potentials for both Saturday and Sunday and I still have about six barns for Sunday to look at.

The Smarty Jones colt we bought Wednesday has been sold. The Aldebaran filly, Aldebutante, who BEC purchased for Dee Tee Stable at last year's September sale has been entered for her debut at Belmont Park in Sunday's 5th race.