Both weanlings from PRINCE OF MONACO’s first crop and mares carrying his second crop were well-received at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, led by a $205,000 weanling colt.
Harcourt Stud purchased that colt offered by Grovendale Sales out of the Grade 3-placed Improv. Bred by LV Farm, the colt’s dam has produced three-time winner Last Minute from her three to race and saw last year’s weanling sell for $140,000.
Improv is out of the Grade 2 winning One Caroline, whose production resume also includes the stakes placed Girl Talk. One Caroline is one of two stakes performers out of her own dam and is a half-sister to the dam of the stakes winning duo of Master Fencer and Top Divo. This family also includes European Horse of the Year St. Jovite.
A $200,000 colt was the second most expensive PRINCE OF MONACO offering when Frisco Bloodstock purchased the weanling from Elm Tree Farm.
Bred by Nancy Shuford, he is a grandson of the Grade 2-polaced Live for Now, who produced two winners. This is a strong family with the colt’s dam Morning Frost a granddaughter of the stakes winning Turko’s Turn. In addition to winning on the track, Turko’s Turn produced Horse of the Year Point Given and the stakes placed trio of Deher’s Turn, Point Gained, and Live for Now.
Three of Turko’s Turn’s daughters produced stakes performers with the group led by Grade 2 winner Street Story.
PRINCE OF MONACO’s other weanlings brought $195,000, $180,000, $170,000 for a $100,000 median from 21 sold.
The stallion’s in-foal mares were led by the $300,000 Kingdom Come, purchased by Pin Oak Stud.
Offered by Claiborne as part of the dispersal for W. Bruce Lunsford, the mare is a Justify half-sister to dual Grade 1 winner Art Collector and Grade 3-placed Classic Legacy. Those are two of the three winners out of the stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Distorted Legacy.
That Distorted Humor mare is a half-sister to Grade 2 winner and Grade 1-placed Vision and Verse and three other stakes performers out of Bunting.
Kingdom Come also has a PRINCE OF MONACO weanling filly.