Keeneland’s January two-day All Ages Horse Sale ended Tuesday with a complete gross sales worth of $53,580,300 for 700 horses, together with $2,346,500 reported to this point in post-sale receipts for horses that didn’t attain reserve value within the ring however had been subsequently bought. This was the best public sale value since 2008. Throughout a three-day public sale final January, Keeneland bought 724 horses for $35,225,900. The typical value, together with after gross sales, was $48,655, and the median value was $22,000.
Tony Lacy, Keeneland’s vice chairman of gross sales, mentioned holding the January 2026 sale for 2 days “stored up the vitality. There was by no means sufficient of a market. Buckling was packed all day lengthy, there have been lots of people right here, and we had been very excited. All you need in a superb market is vitality from begin to end.The sale by no means felt like a lull.The consumers had been bidding aggressively and with nice depth.”
On Tuesday, Keeneland bought 347 horses by means of the ring for $19,527,400, common $56,275, median $22,000. Complete sale gross sales by means of the ring totaled 666 horses for $51,233,800, with a median of $76,928 and a median of $30,000.
“Right now was a strong buying and selling day,” Lacy mentioned. “Clearance charges, averages and median costs had been up over final yr, regardless that we had extra quantity. I feel everybody felt it was a really trustworthy and robust market total. We had been very joyful and I feel sellers had been joyful as nicely. Patrons felt it was a aggressive setting.”
“The takeaway for me is that the highest 25 horses went from 18 totally different consignors to 24 totally different consumers,” mentioned Cormac Breathnach, Keeneland’s senior director of gross sales operations. “It is at all times nice to see such energy and depth on the prime of the market. The highest 13 yearlings are all by totally different stallions, so there’s a number of well-liked pedigree and exercise round these choose heaps.”
Tuesday’s highest value was for a yearling colt out of Nyquist that bought to En Fuego Stables for $525,000. He’s out of Sorrentina Lemon, who competed within the stakes out of Lemon Drop Child, and is a pedigree of Canadian champion Negligee. Agent Conley Bloodstock (Carolyn Conley) consigned the stallion.
“Invoice Justice (of Justice Actual Property) is my different half and he produced this stallion,” Conley mentioned. “We believed on this stallion from the start. We knew he was the most effective foal this mare has ever had and we’re enthusiastic about his future.”
“We wished to attend for the September Sale, however Invoice is a seasoned businessman and mentioned Nyquist was scorching as a firecracker, so we determined to go in January. The stallion has improved whereas at Keeneland. He is undoubtedly grown and placed on weight. He is received a terrific temperament, and his gait is nice.”
In Monday’s opening session of the January Sale, Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm paid a sale-record $3.2 million for Tiffany Case, dam of Canadian champion and Eclipse Prize finalist Nitrogen and foal of Not This Time. Greenwell Thoroughbreds, led by Greg Tramontin, will spend $2 million to accumulate Grade 1 winner and broodmare candidate Merely in Entrance. Gun Runner, a yearling, was bought to Mark Gunderson’s MWG for $800,000.
Three horses topped final yr’s January Sale, every bringing in $700,000.
All through the public sale, agent TaylorMade Gross sales Company led consignors in promoting 86 horses for $8,720,500. TaylorMade has been a serious shipper for the twenty fourth January Sale since 2000.
Whisper Hill’s solely buy, a Tiffany case, made Pope’s operation a serious purchaser within the January sale.
