Glenye Cain Oakford: Brian Graves stretched his budget to pay $300,000 for a chestnut Candy Ride yearling (Hip 379) he intends to prepare for resale at a select yearling auction later this year. Warrendale Sales, agent, consigned the March 2-foaled yearling, who is the first foal out of the Gentlemen mare Gentlemen’s Crown. The mare is a half-sister to Chocolate Candy, making the $300,000 colt closely related to that graded winner and Grade 1-placed runner.

I sincerely hope the impending foal of Kitten's Joy and Busty Miss isn't gonna be named Busty Kitten.

Shadai Farm adds Secret Gypsy for $540k Day 2 at Keeneland

Tuesday’s session returned to earth, a day after Monday’s opener rang up large gains in gross and average, but cumulatively the first two sessions were running ahead of last year’s. On Tuesday, Keeneland sold 205 horses for $8,912,600, down 22 percent from last year’s one-day total for 228 horses, and the average price of $43,476 was off by 13 percent. Buybacks were up slightly, from last year’s 22 percent to 24 percent.

But thanks to Monday’s sparkling figures, the 2011 auction’s first two sessions together remained on the upswing, with a 9 percent gain in gross and a 13 percent increase in average. Together, the two days sold 392 horses for $19,600,200, resulting in an average of $50,001. The median - both for Tuesday’s session and cumulatively - was $20,000, on a par with last year’s. Cumulative buybacks increased, rising from 26 percent to 30 percent.

More importantly, the $20,000 median was exactly level with last year, a sign that the market is showing stability, as breeders and consignors had hoped.

hip 843, an unraced 3 yr old filly by Malibu Moon. $25k...
https://secure.keeneland.com/sales/Jan11/pdfs/843.pdf

Sale results remain surprisingly consistant, solid..

Glenye Cain Oakford

Keeneland January shows gains in gross and average
By Glenye Cain Oakford

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Keeneland January all-ages sale ended Friday with mixed results but showed the kind of market stability auction executives and sellers had hoped to see. Topped by Grade 1 winner Ave’s $1.4 million sale to Japan’s Shadai Farm, the five-day auction sold 1,021 horses for receipts totaling $25,250,350. That marked an increase of 6 percent from last year’s gross for 982 horses. The 2011 average price, $24,731, was up 2 percent. Median, which had remained level with last year’s figures for most of the sale, had dropped by 6 percent at the close of business Friday, from last year’s $8,000 to $7,500 in 2011. The buyback percentage remained at 27 percent, the same as it was in 2010.

Keeneland’s director of sales, Geoffrey Russell, called the market “resilient” and added, “People are still very discerning, but they want to buy horses. That fact is supported by the prices paid for quality individuals, particularly young, stakes-winning mares and yearlings with good physicals.”

Back on the track with a win .
http://www.equibase.com/static/chart...020411USA8.pdf