Seventeen on Offer for Claiborne In First Two Keeneland September Books

Seventeen yearlings are set to represent Claiborne during the first two books of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale next week with five in Book 1 and 12 in Book 2.

The sale kicks off with Hip 145 for Claiborne when a WAR FRONT filly out of the Group 3 placed Stay The Night goes through the ring.

The filly is a sibling to two winners from three to race with both winners by her sire. Stay The Night is the daughter of the stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Louve Royale, who is the granddam of Grade 2 winner Copper Bullet, stakes winner Yousini, and champion Hardpia.

The extended family includes Grade 1 winners Loup Sauvage and Loup Solitaire.

Stay the Night had another WAR FRONT filly this year.

Hip 260 is the second foal out of the stakes placed Bridlewood Cat and sells during the second day of Book 1.

This Tapit colt is a three-quarter brother to Tapit’s Grade 1 winner Sweet Loretta. That mare joins Bridlewood Cat as two of three stakes performers out of the stakes placed Ithinkisawapudycat. She’s one of the many stakes producer from the family with her dam producing Canadian champion Spring in the Air, who produced two of her own stakes performers. The colt’s next dam produced Grade 2 winner Tejano Run and the dam of Grade 1 winner Palace Episode with 11 stakes performers overall on this page.

Bridlewood Cat visited ANNAPOLIS last year and produced a filly in 2025.

A Not This Time half-sister to the late dual Grade 1 winner Art Collector sells as Hip 306 with Claiborne.

An 11-time winner, Art Collector was one of two stakes performers out of the stakes winning Distorted Legacy. She also produced Grade 3 placed Classic Legacy with the pair two of the three winners from five to race out of the mare.

One generation back under the filly’s Grade 1 placed granddam Bunting is Grade 2 winner and multiple Grade 1 placed Vision and Verse and two other stakes performers produced by the mare. Her daughters had their own producing talent as well with five different mares having stakes performers under their name.

A Good Magic yearling out of a stakes producing full sister to Claiborne’s successful late sire Pulpit sells as Hip 450.

The colt’s winning A.P. Indy dam Orate has been successful in the breeding shed with eight winners from 11 to race and has seen those three who did win have stakes placings to their name. Orate’s best runners are the stakes winning duo of FIRST SAMURAI’s Endless Chatter and WAR FRONT’S Whitecliffsofdover, who also placed in Grade 1s. She is also the dam of BLAME’s stakes placed Berate.

Orate is out of another notable broodmare in Grade 1 winner Preach. In addition to Pulpit, Preach produced the Group 3-placed Urban Poet and stakes-placed Tell It. Tell It is the dam of stakes winner Dream Nettie and one other stakes winner while another daughter produced stakes winner Nunnery. There was a recent stakes update under Preach’s name as well when her BLAME granddaughter Admit finished third in the Pucker Up S. (G3) at Ellis Park this summer.  In all, 21 descendants of Preach have earned blacktype.

Orate had a BLAME filly this year.

A three-quarter brother to Grade 1 winner Force The Pass goes through the ring as Hip 511 during Book 2.

The Charlatan colt is a sibling to five winners from seven to race out of Grade 3 winner Social Queen, who won six races before her broodmare career. The mare is out of stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Gal on the Go and is a half-sister to the dam of multiple stakes winner Wonder Gal. Wonder Gal went on to produce champion Wonder Wheel while Wonder Gal’s half-sister is the dam of DEMARCHELIER’s stakes placed Illustrator.

Social Queen is one of three stakes producers overall out of her dam with another sister producing Grade 3-placed Nakamura.

The third foal out of Group 1 winner Wonderment sells as Hip 593 for Claiborne.

The Flightline colt is a half-brother to WAR FRONT’s winner Wassail from one to race with the mare also having an unraced WAR FRONT juvenile as well. Wonderment is a half-sister to the stakes winning Amneris with the duo out of champion Wiwilia. Wiwilia comes from a strong German family as a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Wake Forest and the Grade 3-placed Wildfahrte. That mare produced dual stakes winner Wildpark and Grade 3 placed Wild Max and Wild Approach with Wild Approach producing three stakes performers of her own.

Wonderment returned to WAR FRONT last year and produced a filly this year.

Hailing from Uncle Mo’s second-to-last crop is Hip 649, a half-brother to Grade 2 winner and Grade 1-placed Pass The Champagne.

The colt is out of the stakes winning Champagne Taste, who also produced BLAME’s Grade 2 winner Miss Kentucky and stakes placed Los Borrachos with nine winners from nine to race. Champagne Taste is one of two stakes performers out of Grade 2 winner Go Go alongside multiple Grade 2 placed Miss Mittagong.

Go Go produced five stakes producers with her daughters producing a group that includes Grade 3 winner At Attention and stakes winner X Clown. In all, Go Go sees 12 stakes performers under her name on the page.

Book 1 starts at 1p.m. daily on Monday and Tuesday with Book 2 starting at 11a.m. during its two sessions. Find the whole Claiborne Keeneland September consignment below.