Story by B. Jason Brooks
The 2025 Keeneland Yearling Sale is in full swing. Potential buyers are walking the grounds with their dog-eared sales catalogs while they visit consignors to inspect a new crop of yearlings in search of what they hope may be the next Triple Crown winner or a future champion.
Located in barns 6, 28 and 34, Claiborne Farm’s consignment includes five dozen well-bred yearlings. Among them are a notable trio from Books 1 and 2 being offered in the first few days the sale.
Not This Time Filly out of Winchell-bred Candy Ride (ARG) Mare
HIP 250 is a bay filly by Not This Time out of Candy Ride (ARG) mare Bankable. Selling in Book 1 on Tuesday, September 9th, the filly is rated A++ by TrueNicks and shares the same Not This Time-Candy Ride (ARG) cross as Winchell Thoroughbreds’ champion 3-year-old colt Epicenter, a five-length winner of the Travers Stakes (G1).
Bankable is a sibling to three Winchell-bred stakes winners, two of them graded. She is a three-quarter sibling to Recharge, by Gun Runner, winner of the Houston Ladies Classic Stakes (G3) this January at the age of 4, and a full sibling to Reride, by Candy Ride (ARG), winner of the Big Drama Stakes and Mine That Bird Derby at the age of 3. Reride also placed in the United Arab Emirates Derby (G2) at Meydan. Bankable is also is a half to Finite, by Munnings, winner of the Golden Rod Stakes (G2) at 2 and Rachel Alexandra Stakes (G2) and Chilukki Stakes (G3) at 3. Finite placed in the La Troienne Stakes (G1) at 4 before being sold for $2.2 million at the 2021 Fasig Tipton November Sale.
The Not This Time filly’s second dam is Tapit mare Remit, winner of the Panthers Stakes at 3 and Wild Rose Stakes at 4. Remit is a full sibling to sire Tapiture, winner of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G2) at 2, West Virginia Derby (G2), Matt Winn Stakes (G3), and Southwest Stakes (G3) at 3, and Ack Ack Handicap (G3) at 4. Tapiture was also runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) at the age of 3. Remit has two full siblings that include Rotation, winner of the Super Derby (G3) at 3, and Retap, runner-up in the Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes (G3) and winner of the Riley Allison Futurity, both at 2.
Good Magic Colt from the Same Claiborne Family as Pulpit
HIP 450 is a bay colt by Good Magic out of winning Claiborne Farm-bred A.P. Indy mare Orate. Selling in Book 2 on Wednesday, September 10th, the dam a full sister to Pulpit, sire of more than 40 graded stakes winners, with 11 of them grade 1 winners, most notably three-time leading sire Tapit. (For more on Pulpit and his family, see “Gulfstream’s Pulpit Stakes Honors Claiborne Homebred” on the Claiborne blog.)
Good Magic’s sire Curlin crossed with A.P. Indy mares have produced four grade 1 winners, including Malathaat, a two-time champion and six-time grade 1 winner; Nest, a champion, three-time grade 1 winner, and runner-up against males in the Belmont Stakes (G1) who sold for $6 million as a broodmare prospect; sire Global Campaign, winner of the Woodward Handicap (G1) and placed in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1); and sire Idol, winner of the Santa Anita Handicap (G1).
The Good Magic colt is a sixth-generation Claiborne bred whose damline includes five reines-de-course mares tracing back to Knight’s Daughter (GB), identified by BloodHorse’s Eric Mitchell as an “immensely powerful female family.”
The colt is a half-brother to two grade 1-placed siblings. The first is Claiborne-bred Whitecliffsofdover, by Claiborne sire War Front, who was purchased by the Coolmore connections for $1,150,000 at the 2015 Keeneland September Sale. He placed in France’s prestigious Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-Grand Criterium (G1) at 2 and won the European Free Handicap in Britain at 3. He is also a half brother to Alpha Delta Stables’s Claiborne-bred Endless Chatter, by Claiborne stallion First Samurai, winner of the Summer Colony Stakes who also placed in the Beldame Stakes (G1), both at the age of 4.
The yearling’s granddam Preach is also the granddam of Calumet Farm’s homebred Wild Shot, by Trappe Shot, who placed in the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at 2 and won the Pat Day Mile (G3) at 3.
The third dam Narrate, by Claiborne stallion Honest Pleasure, won the Falls City Handicap (G3) at 3. Her winning daughter Yarn, by Mr. Prospector, produced three sires, including Coolmore’s champion Minardi, by Claiborne sire Boundary, winner of the Phoenix Stakes (G1) in England and Middle Park Stakes (G1) in Ireland, both at the age of 2. He also placed in the classic Irish Two Thousand Guineas (G1) at 3; Tale of the Cat, by Storm Cat, winner of the King’s Bishop Stakes (G2) and runner-up in the Whitney Handicap (G1) at 3; and Fed Biz, by Giant’s Causeway, winner of the Pat O’Brien Stakes (G2) and San Fernando Stakes (G2) at 3 and San Diego Handicap (G2) at 4.
Narrate’s daughter Yarn is also the granddam of Ashford Stud’s dual-juvenile champion Johannesburg, by Hennessy, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), and third dam of Joking, by Distorted Humor, winner of the Vosberg Stakes (G1) and True North Stakes (G2), both at the age of 7.
Going further back, the yearling’s fifth dam Monarchy, by Princequillo (GB), is the third dam of English champion juvenile filly Tessla, by Glint of Gold (GB), and fifth dam of Leading Light (IRE), by Montjeu (IRE), winner of the English classic St. Ledger Stakes (G1) and Ascot Gold Cup (G1).
The colt’s sixth dam is Claiborne’s imported foundation mare Knight’s Daughter (GB), by Sir Cosmo (IRE), the dam of Hall of Famer Round Table.
Munnings Colt from the Same Shadwell Family as Grade 1 Winner Takaful
HIP 498 is a bay colt by Munnings out of Bernardini mare Sibaaq, from a deep, winning female family bred by Shadwell Farm. Selling in Book 2 on Wednesday, September 10th, the dam is a full sister to Takaful, winner of the Vosburgh Stakes (G1) at 3. Originally on the Triple Crown trail, Shadwell’s Takaful was converted to a sprinter by trainer Kiaran McLaughlin and delivered his grade 1 victory versus older horses. He and Sibaaq are also half to Haikal, by Daaher, winner of the Gotham Stakes (G3) at 3.
The Munnings colt’s granddam Sablah, by Distorted Humor, is a half sister to Ghaamer, by Hard Spun, winner of the His Highness The President Cup in the U.A.E. at the age of 6.
The third dam Teeba, by Claiborne stallion Seeking the Gold, placed in two stakes in Britain at 3. Teeba is a half sibling to Alshadiyah, by Claiborne stallion Danzig, a stakes winner at 2, and Imtiyaz, by Woodman, a stakes winner in Britain and grade 1-placed in France at 3, and a stakes winner in Britain and the U.A.E. at 4.
Going another generation back, the fourth dams is Shadayid, by Cherry Valley Farm and Gamely Corp.-bred English champion Shadeed. Shadwell-bred Shadayid won the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1) in France at 2 and English fillies classic One Thousand Guineas (G1) at 3.
Other Yearlings Represented in the Claiborne Consignment
The Claiborne consignment is comprised of 65 catalogued yearlings (including 5 withdrawn, as of this writing), including the progeny of proven sires like Curlin, Into Mischief, Not This Time, and Uncle Mo, plus highly-anticipated first crop yearlings by Flightline and Life Is Good, among others.
The impressive pedigrees of the Claiborne-consigned yearlings are typical of the farm’s quality offered this and every year at the Keeneland September Sale,, continuing the Paris, Kentucky farm’s tradition of “Doing the usual, unusually well.”