Weanling half-sister to Zenyatta selling for $1.5 million at the 2011 Keeneland November sale, consigned by Select Sales, agent.
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Select Sales is a full-service sales agency that strives to provide its clientele with the best possible results at public auction. The Select Sales management team believes that accurately placing its clients horses in the correct sale is the key to a profitable outcome.
In just three years of operation, Select Sales has quickly established itself as one of the leading consignments in North America. In 2011, Select Sales grossed over $8 million in sales, and was the 6th leading consignor of weanlings and the 16th leading consignor of yearlings in North America.
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A weanling half sister to 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta (by Street Cry) commanded $1.5 million and became the first horse sold for a six-figure price at this year's Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
Multiple Eclipse Award-winning breeder and owner Frank Stronach purchased the bay daughter of Henrythenavigator out of Vertigineux (by Kris S.) the morning of Nov. 7 during the auction's opening session in Lexington.
"What can I say? She is a half sister to a champion who was a great horse and she (the weanling) looks great physically," Stronach said. "We liked the pedigree, we liked the sire, and we liked the dam. It (the price) was something like we expected. She's one of a kind."
The fact that the weanling was a filly "maybe" enhanced her value," he added.
The racetrack mogul plans to race filly in the colors of his Adena Springs operation.
"She's a weanling; there is a long time to go," said Stronach when asked who would train the filly. "She'll stay at the farm most likely here or go to Florida."
Select Sales, agent, consigned the filly, which is a member of her sire's first crop. The weanling also is a half sister to grade I winner Balance (by Thunder Gulch ) and the stakes winner Where's Bailey (by Aljabr).
"We're very humbled and very thrilled to get the chance to sell her," said Select Sales' Andrew Cary. "Obviously, she was an amazing filly with an amazing pedigree. She's going to a great home with Frank Stronach. We were just very privileged to have been a small part of it."
Select Sales sold the weanling for Rick Jamieson's Gilgai Farm in Australia. Gilgai, which bred Australia's undefeated superstar Black Caviar, acquired the half sister to Zenyatta privately earlier this year.
The record for a weanling filly sold at Keeneland in November is $2.4 million (brought by Isla Canela in 2006). Only four fillies of her age have commanded more than Zenyatta's half sister at previous editions of the sale. The $1.5 million price for Zenyatta's half sister tied with the amount brought by Teeming in 2001.
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2012 Sales Calendar
Fasig-Tipton July Yearlings
Lexington KY
July 10-11
Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearlings
Saratoga Springs, NY
August 6-7
Fasig-Tipton Saratoga NY Bred Yearlings
August 11-12
OBS Yearling Sale
Ocala, FL
August 22-23
Keeneleand September Yearlings
Lexington, KY
September 9-23
Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearlings
October 22-24
Keeneland November Breeding Stock
November 4-17
Carrie Brogden was born in Virginia and was riding ponies before she could walk. Her mother brought her first pony, Lassie, home in the back of a station wagon while six months pregnant. Carrie grew up with two veterinarians and lots of thoroughbreds on her parent’s farm, Pair O Docs, where they stood the classy old stallion, Clem. Carrie showed ponies extensively throughout her youth; her favorite thing to do every weekend until she was sixteen.
Carrie attended James Madison University in Virginia, graduating with a degree in Psychology and a minor in Biology, heading towards a career in genetics. She lived outside of Washington DC and ran her family's chain of upscale animal giftware stores until they were sold in 2000. The thoroughbred bug bit her again as her mother started back with a broodmare band shuttling back and forth from Va to Ky. Carrie’s background in show hunters gave her a big leg up in developing an eye for a horse and the particular movement that most athletes possess.
Carrie moved to Kentucky in 2001 along with her mother and husband and started their own farm. The farm was named for her great grandfather Dean Machmer, who was dean of the University of Massachusetts. To this day, there is a building on the Amherst campus named in his honor, Machmer Hall, which became the name of Carrie’s family's farm. Including their own mares, year-round client mares and partnership mares, they currently have about 180 head of horses on the farm. Machmer Hall also preps approximately 60 yearlings a year for the sales.
In just eight short years, their graduates include: Premium Tap (G1), Black Seventeen (G1), Meadow Breeze (G1), and Accredit (G2). Carrie and her Australian- born husband Craig live on the farm with their three great kids, Reece, Isabelle and Layne, along with four dogs and one cat. Carrie loves the thoroughbred industry and enjoys every moment spent with the horses, especially watching a winning graduate cross the finish line first. She looks forward to a great future with Select Sales.
Andrew Cary was born in Zimbabwe, and in that land of breathtaking natural beauty he developed a love of animals at an early age. Andrew was interested in horses from an early age, beginning riding lessons at the age of four and studying the racing form at the breakfast table by age six. His family emigrated to Southern California when he was eight, and
his love of racing took on a new level with Del Mar and Santa Anita close by.
After college, he moved to Kentucky full-time in 2001 to pursue his dream of a career in the thoroughbred industry. Prior to joining Select, Andrew was the Sales Director at leading thoroughbred operation Hill ‘n' Dale Farms in Lexington, Kentucky from 2006-2008. Previously, Andrew served as the Assistant Director of Public Sales at leading consignor Taylor Made Sales Agency.
As the General Manager, Andrew is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Select Sales and is a main point-person at the sales. His duties include bloodstock evaluation and appraisals, sales placement, entries and proceeds, client management and development, and other logistical planning.
In addition to his role with Select, Andrew is the vice president of Thoroughbred Futures, a racing syndicate, and he is a member of the KTA 20/20 Vision Group. He has written for Thoroughbred Times, Owner-Breeder Magazine, and Blood-Horse Marketwatch. Andrew received a degree in history and minor in business from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Goodwin is the owner of Good Win Farm, a boarding operation near Paris, Ky. A native of Natchitoches, La., he graduated from Northwestern State University in 2001, and then founded and ran Good Win Farm from 2001-2005 in Arkadelphia, Ark. Goodwin was the farm manager for Liberty Farm from 2005-06 before relocating to Paris, Ky. and joining the staff at Brogden and her family’s Machmer Hall Thoroughbreds. After managing Machmer Hall for a year, Goodwin re-established Good Win Farm in 2007.
"Tom, Andrew, and Carrie are three up-and-comers in our industry and to be able to team up with them after seeing firsthand the excellent job they do at the sales is exciting and flattering,” Goodwin said. “I think we're going to have some great years ahead.”
Goodwin lives on his farm with his wife Jana and their three daughters.
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