Keeneland Yearling sale – looking at Denali’s Book 1 highlights

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Looking beyond the first day of the Keeneland September Yearling sale, Denali Stud has plenty of highlights in sessions 2 through 4 running Sept. 9-11, which round out the first book of the 13-day sale.

Here is a look at some of Denali’s notable offerings; the complete listing of all our consignments can be found here.

Hip Sire Dam Notes
220 Distorted Humor Satans Quick Chick Colt is the first foal out of a Grade 2 winner
228 War Front Score 1/2 brother to G2-placed Timely Tally; 2nd dam is MG1W Educated Risk
302 Candy Ride Summer Solstice Colt is a half-brother to a pair of stakes winners
397 Distorted Humor Wild Poppy Colt’s dam is a half-sister to champion 3-year-old filly Surfside
398 Galileo Wild Wind Rare Galileo offering; dam is from the family of Kingmambo and East of the Moon
462 Giant’s Causeway Baghdaria MGSW dam earned $725,433; family of Preakness (G1) winner Shackleford
474 Bernardini Belle of Perintown G2 winning dam has three winners, including G3 winner Strike It Rich
490 Distorted Humor Bon Jovi Girl dam earned over $500K and is a half-sister to multiple champion Gio Ponti
535 Candy Ride Cloudburst Stakes-winning mare is a half-sister to 2-year-old champion Boston Harbor
693 Bernardini Grosse Pointe Anne Colt is the second foal out of a half-sister to 2-year-old champion Uncle Mo
714 Lemon Drop Kid Honoria Stakes-winning mare’s only other foal is a stakes winner of $162,050