Golden Pal Set for Strong Keeneland September

Yearlings by two-time Breeders’ Cup winner Golden Pal are getting set for the Keeneland September Yearling Sale this week with the stallion having 30 on offer during the first two books of the sale – including eight in the first book.

Being by a Breeders’ Cup winner and out of a half-sister to a Breeders’ Cup winner with a third Breeders’ Cup winner also on the page bodes well for the Hunter Valley Farm-offered Hip 48.

The half-sister to American Pharoah’s winning Galpin Sunday is out of the winning Malibu Moon mare Monthly. Bred by Emcee Stable, Fortune Farm, and Purple H Bloodstock, the filly has already sold once when bringing $200,000 as a weanling last November. Her dam is a half-sister to American Pharoah’s Grade II Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner Four Wheel Drive and Scat Daddy’s stakes winner Born Great out of the stakes winning Funfair.

In all, there are 17 stakes performers on the page with another Breeders’ Cup winner found farther down in Grade I Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Furthest Land with Grade III winner and Grade I Dubai World Cup runner-up Dynever also named.

Monthly had a colt by Gunite this year.

Valkyre Stud’s Hip 146 is a half-sister to two stakes winners and five winners overall out of the Speightstown mare Steamy.

Bred by Robert Spiegel, the colt comes into the ring with a notable update with his half-brother Lagynos winning the Tapit Stakes just before the sale. Lagynos was already a Grade III winner before that win and has multiple Grade II placings to his name as well.

Steamy also produced Grade III winner Vision Perfect with two other winners having three or more victories to their name. Steamy is a half-sister to Grade III winner and Grade I-placed Mr. Gruff and out of a Grade III winner in Ruff.

Steamy foaled a Practical Joke colt for Spiegel this year.

Hip 288 already has an impressive group of siblings behind him, but the Indian Creek offering received an update before the sale to put the cherry on top.

The William Harrigan and Mike Pietrangelo-bred colt’s multiple Grade II winning half-sister Simply In Front won the Kentucky Downs Preview Ladies Turf Mile at Ellis Park before finishing second in the Grade II Ladies Turf Sprint at Kentucky Downs. That took the filly’s earnings to $2,409,811 with a Grade I placing in the Natalma to her name as well. That’s one of two big performances in that race for daughters of Complicated with her filly And One More Time winning the Grade I Natalma as well. Complicated is also the dam of Grade II winner Honor D Lady and stakes winner Churchtown among her four winners from five to race.

Complicated is a granddaughter of dual Grade I winner Educated Risk as a daughter of stakes winner Consequence. That mare was one of two stakes winners for her dam and one of five Educated Risk daughters who either produced stakes performers or the dams of stakes winners.

Another yearling with a Grade I winning half-sibling is Hip 571 offered by breeder Penn Sales.

The filly out of Unbridled Empire is a half-sister to Grade I winner and $3 million earner Arklow and Grade II winner Maraud among her six winning siblings. Unbridled Empire is a second-generation Grade I producer with her mare Cinazanno producing Grade I winners Fourty Niners Son and Cindy’s Hero. Cindy’s Hero went on to produce Grade III winner Delegation with another sister producing two stakes performers. Cindanzzano’s dam didn’t produce a Grade I winner but did produce Chilean champion All Glory.

Vinery Sales is the consignor of Hip 840, a colt out of Kitten’s Joy mare Nefferkitty.

Bred by Three Times a Charm and Chesapeake Farm, the colt is the second foal out of his dam with that mare seeing her juvenile place in Japan this year. Nefferkitty is a half-sister to Grade II winner Zeitlos, who further improved the page this summer with a second in the Grade III Caress Stakes at Saratoga. Zeitlos has won or placed in seven stakes to follow in her Grade III winning dam Thyme For Roses’s footprints.

A Nice Guys Pinhooking-bred yearling closely related to Uncle Mo’s three-time Grade I winner Bast sells as Hip 846 with Burleson Farms.

The colt is the first foal out of the Ghostzapper mare Opening Act, whose dam Laffina produced a stakes performing duo by Uncle Mo in Bast and the stakes placed Royal Slipper. Laffina is a half-sister to 10 winners out of the multiple stakes placed St Lucinda.

That mare produced five stakes performers in Grade II winner and Grade I-placed Mananan Mclir, stakes winners Big Sur and Charming N Lovable, Grade III-placed Sandra’s Rose, and stakes placed Composition. Charming N Lovable produced Grade I winner Fault while another winning sibling produced Grade II winner Fioretti.

The Keeneland September Yearling Sale takes place September 8 through 20 with Golden Pal having yearlings in every book.