Big Money For Young Horses! | Who Topped The Bill At The 2021 Keeneland Yearling Sale?

[@heidicarman9097]

Perfect conformation for the million club of yearlings!

[@karaamundson3964]

That Quality Road colt is a big boy

[@109367]

Right!? I was like ... these are yearlings?!

[@payten8103]

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[@slseitzgerman]

Hip 333 Love, Love this colt!

[@kathleenhuff3059]

That Anchorage colt should be named "Northern Lights" if the name isn't already taken...lol

[@DoubleDogDare54]

It has, both in the US and internationally. 11 times, total, a current 4yo colt has it here in the US.

[@Cboyle02]

Number 331 aged extremely well. He is tapit trice and is gonna run in the Kentucky derby

[@lexbcby]

isn’t this one of the horses that was put down before the ky derby?

[@Cboyle02]

@@lexbcby no he wasn’t…

[@lexbcby]

@@Cboyle02oh that was freezing point nvm. there was 7 of them tho.

[@mightyfiner1752]

Hip 333 so smaaarrtttt!!!

[@ricosuave5120]

Question: the white tag on the horses hips? Why is it placed there? Is it just a number, or is it placed at a certain height...or what? Just curious. Thanks.

[@omerasan6084]

HIP 300 LOOKS GREAT

[@carolmcleod5570]

They just ooze class ..physically and mentally.

[@sharoncollins865]

9/23/21 I miss Secretariat Sharon Charlotte NC 🏇🌹🦋

[@stephenburke5967]

No 5 is a smasher.

[@lsieu]

So calm in the ring!

[@alanaschmude9094]

You would be too if you had a chain running across your gums. He is super quiet even the handler is trying to release some pressure off of the chain in his mouth. So unneccessary and just cruel.

[@alanaschmude9094]

@@HonestEQ Yes actually I have and no they don't need to have a chain running through their mouth.

[@SaraNightfire1]

@@alanaschmude9094 these horses are worth millions of dollars and usually spend months in a pasture galloping around without even a halter. Then they’re confined to a stall for days and are having people run their hands over them, checking their mouth, having people make them trot out back and forth and then are shoved in a ring where there’s a loudspeaker and a voice shouting numbers behind him with people bidding on them. They’re scared and worth millions. The chain is to keep them from getting hurt and bolting.

[@alanaschmude9094]

@@SaraNightfire1 I will agree to disagree.

[@seadrifter8975]

No dubawi's? His progeny run good on dirt abroad, I'm surprised American breeders don't use him much?

[@user-kl5ls8qs4p]

No 8 👌

[@NebulizerChi]

Wondered what happened to #6 so had to look at this v. carefully to see that there were two 7s sold at $1.3M apiece :\

[@cowboymusicstudio4911]

why do they skip the auction bids, don't make any sense to delete the sale time base.

[@raulvillarealverdaderovill8242]

🐎🐎🐎chulada sedeque semental son eso es loque kiero llatengo las corredoras

[@heinzbucksandcastle2053]

And they will be 3 to 5 first out with Pletcher or Baffert!

[@lindabrown8421]

So young and healthy. Sad that many will end up at Mexican and Canadian slaughterhouses when they do not win.

[@mattm8932]

None of these horses will end up in a slaughterhouse, you maniac. You so don’t know what you’re talking about.

[@rivergold4835]

@@mattm8932 Read what happened to Ferdinand en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_(horse)

[@OfficialMuffiin]

@@rivergold4835 Ferdinand shocked the public and there was such a huge backlash that things like that don't happen anymore, at least to high profile horses. Just look at places like Old Friends and the other OTTB retirement programs, none of them would've existed if it wasn't for what happened to Ferdinand.

[@bwenluck9812]

@Linda Brown Most, if not all, of these fillies will end up as broodmares; they are valuable because of their pedigrees. The idea that any of these fillies will end up at slaughter is slim to nill.... Some of these colts will remain stallions, but most of them will eventually be gelded. I doubt if horses of this caliber would end up at slaughter as long as they remain in the U.S. But my heart always drops when stallions are sold to foreign countries. The Thoroughbred horses that end up at slaughter are horses that run at the lower ranks. I once bought a TB mare whose owner threatened to send her to a livestock auction. THOSE are the horses that end up at slaughter. But there is a much better safety net for TBs than there was even 50 years ago, and good people who go to these auctions to buy up TBs that would normally fall through the cracks. If you want to save a TB I can refer you to a reputable group that will help you do that.

[@kentocker4416]

Go home pet your looking tired

[@phillc1073]

I HOPE TO WIN A FEW BUCKS ON THESE FUTURE STARS!

[@DoubleDogDare54]

Don't hold your breath. Very few million dollar babies amount to anything on the track. This is probably the first and last time you'll hear about any of this bunch.

[@agustindejesus7398]

Wao, money, money, money. Why i cant have one of those millions?

[@MaxiMum1324]

These buyers need to pay higher taxes. That is just crazy! A(n almost still) baby horse costing more than people have to retire with.

[@Oswald_Thatendswald]

there are yearlings that sell for 1500 at these sales. It just depends on the pedigree and what buyers are willing to bid.

[@raulvillarealverdaderovill8242]

que esta pasando chingado noballa aser ese puerto rico sies el estavien quedeselos igrasias wueles aga plobecho

[@ruwanpriyadarshana9961]

None of these horses can win a major race. I am 100% sure. The horse that wins the American Derby is not up for auction.

[@MikeSmith-cn6ub]

And you know this how ? Enlighten us with your expertise in this game

[@SaraNightfire1]

Seattle Slew won the Triple Crown and was sold at an auction like this for $17,500. American Pharaoh was at another auction like this but Zayat changed his mind at the last minute and rebought him.

[@munge5356]

Medina Spirit, the (now disqualified) 2021 derby winner was $1000 dollars at a random auction if I remember correctly. The 2022 winner Rich Strike was bought for $30,000 at a maiden claiming race. These specific horses could go either way but great horses definitely go up for sale.

[@Oswald_Thatendswald]

The last derby winner was sold for 1k at the Ocala Breeders' Sale. You 100% have no idea what you're talking about.

[@raulvillarealverdaderovill8242]

ese otro ese si 3 porfa revise mi estado porfa sen'or

[@raulvillarealverdaderovill8242]

3🤠

[@raulvillarealverdaderovill8242]

achulada revise nopuedo mandar correos nimensajes los dos son mios

[@raulvillarealverdaderovill8242]

chingado que inpotensia los kiero 5 llalecomente sisepuede porfa

[@peightonstorm1053]

Look at that beautiful face it's worth a million

[@raulvillarealverdaderovill8242]

porda

[@controlleddemolition9112]

Let's have a moment of silence for these yearlings. All or nearly all will wind up in the shedrows of serial drug offenders. They might win more than they should, but at what cost?

[@virtualhorse]

Here we go again

[@brookedavidson7305]

You realize like 99% of horse racing, especially at this level is responsible, right? Please educate yourself, most race horses are in amazing hands.

[@controlleddemolition9112]

@@brookedavidson7305 I think you're either confused as to what I'm talking about or in denial as to how rampant the use of PEDs is at the highest levels. The list of top-money winning trainers in the US reads like a Who's Who of the worst repeat offenders. Most of them have over two dozen post-race positives on their rap sheets. We've recently had two trainers whose horses finished first in the Kentucky Derby, R. Dutrow and Servis, who have admitted that "they drugged every horse they ever trained". They passed nearly every drug test. The obvious implication, when you see the records of trainers like Baffert, Pletcher, Assmussen, Sadler, Hollendorfer and many others who have failed so many tests, is that they also drug every horse they train and only get caught once in a while. Otherwise, are these horses -- ie, the million-dollar yearlings and the like -- treated like kings? Of course they are. They're treated better than 99% of human beings, but they can't say "no" to the drugs.

[@mattm8932]

Jfc. You don’t know what you’re really talking about.

[@controlleddemolition9112]

@@mattm8932 I suggest that it's you who prefer to remain blind to the facts. Racing fans who deny the rampant use of steroids by nearly all of the top trainers and other PEDs by most of the biggest money winning trainers remind me of MLB's reaction when Jose Canseco said that 80% of the players were on the juice. It turned out he was wrong. It was closer to 95%. They remind me of Lance Armstrong fans who defended him right up until the last. They seem to think that the absence of absolute proof in the form of drug-positive tests is proof of innocence. It never has been in any sport. The facts are out there. You just have to accept them. Some think that Bob Baffert, with his 30 post-race postives, is some sort of "outlyer". He's not. His record is more or less "typical" among leading trainers. However his record and the records of several other top US trainers are probably worse than Dutrow's or Servis' records were, and they were ousted when wiretaps and FBI investigations revealed the extent to which they were cheating, ie, all the time.