Bidders continued to fight over the three BLAME daughters offered during the first book of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, with the mares led by the $3.1 million Admit.
Offered by Claiborne and purchased by M.V. Magnier and White Birch Farm, this outstanding page got a big update in recent months when Dang Son finished third in the Del Mar Futurity (G1). Admit is carrying her first foal by Life Is Good after retiring with four wins and four other top three finishes, led by a win in the Valley View S. (G2).
The mare is one of five winners from six to race out of WAR FRONT’s Profess alongside her five-time winning full sister Lady Lawyer and multiple others. A winner on the track, Profess is out of Grade 1 winner Preach. That makes her a half-sister to Grade 2 winner and successful sire Pulpit and two other stakes performers with her winning half-sister Orate the dam of Dang Son in addition to stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Endless Chat and Whitecliffsofdover, and BLAME’s stakes placed Berate.
“Definitely a hard decision to sell,” Walker Hancock said. “We have had the family since (around) 1951. We still have a lot of the blood. We have two other BLAME mares in the family. It is bittersweet and I might regret it.”
Springhouse Farm went to $850,000 to purchase a daughter of BLAME from Taylor Made.
A winning mare, Orencia is also a stakes producer with her first foal to race being the successful 3-year-old Iron Honor. The winner of the Gotham S. (G3), he was also second in this year’s Preakness S. (G1) and third in the Haskell (G1).
Orencia is one of six winners from 10 to race out of Tale of the Cat mare Curry Cat with the runners led by the stakes placed My Savannah Belle. Curry Cat’s seven winning siblings include Grade 3 winner and Grade 2-placed Angliana and two other stakes performers in addition to the dam of the stakes winning Powdered Sugar. This is also the family of dual Grade 1 winner Union Rags.
BLAME’s only other Book 1 offering was the stakes producing More’n Likely, who connections liked enough to retain after she brought a $675,000 final bid.