$435,000 Colt Sets Pace for Corniche in Keeneland September Book 3

Saffie Joseph Jr. led the charge when it came to buying Corniche yearlings in Books 3 and later at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale when he snapped up a $435,000 colt from Paramount Sales.

Bred by Byerly Holdings, this colt came into the ring with a big update when his half-sister Scottish Lassie romped in the Grade I Coaching Club American Oaks by 15 ½ lengths in July. That filly had already registered a Grade I victory as a juvenile last year in the Grade I Frizette as one of two winners from two to race out of Bodebabe.

A winner herself, Bodebabe is a half-sister to stakes winner Windmill and stakes placed Ignitis. Her half-sister Feisty Tomboy also saw 2-year-old son Crown The Buckeye win the Best of Ohio Cleveland Kindergarten Stakes after the catalog was released, that runner becoming the mare’s second stakes performer.

The colt’s granddam Zaharias is a full sister to Grade I winner Visionaire and a half-sister to Grade I winner Tara’s Tango among the five stakes winners out of the stakes placed Scarlet Tango.

Al Jawzaa General Trading purchased a $410,000 filly from Scott Mallory, who was selling on behalf of Buena Madera.

The filly is a half-sister to three-time winner Come Dream With Me from the first runner out of Into Humor, who was a winner herself. That mare is a half-sister to the stakes placed Navy Man and is a granddaughter of Grade II winner and Grade I-placed Be Gentle. The page aso includes stakes winner Burning Time among others.

The Three Amigos snatched up a colt out of Jasminesque from Rosilyn Polan for $370,000 during the sixth session of the sale.

This is the first foal out of that three-time winning Will Take Charge mare, who is out of Mineshaft’s Flowerbomb. Flowerbomb’s stakes winning dam Wildwood Flower has created a strong family for this yearling as a top notch producer in her own right. That mare’s foals included Grade I winner Materality and Grade II winner and Grade I-placed My Miss Sophia among others. My Miss Sophia produced Grade I winner Annapolis with another Wildwood Flower daughter producing Grade I winner Leslie’s Rose and a third one producing stakes winner and Grade I-placed Grand Mo The First.

In all, there are five horses on this page who won or placed at the Grade I level.

Corniche’s other second week yearlings sold for $300,000, $300,000, $275,000 etc. with his 42 sold at the sale averaging $206,953, led by a $725,000 colt.