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Turfling
America
Thursday 24 September 2026
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The lead
Keeneland September passes the 2025 sale total with three days to sell
Keeneland September passed the whole of last year’s twelve day total on Wednesday with three sessions still to sell. Nine days of trade have grossed 511,680,500 dollars from 2,027 yearlings, against the 510,539,900 dollars the auction took through the ring across all of 2025. The cumulative gross is 4.93 percent up on the same point last year (Thoroughbred Daily News, Breednet).
Wednesday itself brought 18,485,000 dollars for 295 yearlings, an average of 62,661 dollars and a median of 50,000. Two lots shared the session lead at 250,000 dollars, a Dialed In colt out of Halama bought by Kimmel and Sallusto for Thorostock from Highgate Sales, and an Army Mule filly out of Meetmeonline signed for by Gracie Bloodstock from Paramount Sales (Thoroughbred Daily News).
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Things to know today
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Potente has died at the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, after a femoral nerve hemorrhage was diagnosed in August. The Into Mischief colt won the Grade 2 San Felipe for Bob Baffert and Speedway Stables, was second in the Santa Anita Derby and last ran in the Grade 3 Matt Winn on 7 June (Thoroughbred Daily News) |
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Dr Thomas Riddle, who founded Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital with Dr Bill Rood, died at home on 20 September aged 74. He was the first to recognise and report the 2001 abortion outbreak known as Mare Reproduction Loss Syndrome, and was appointed to the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission in 2023 (Thoroughbred Daily News) |
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Martin Garcia is home in Kentucky with six broken ribs, four cracked vertebrae and a punctured lung after Saturday’s spill in the second race at Churchill Downs. He escaped a head injury and is walking, with another scan due in about two weeks. Walter Rodriguez, who had concussion symptoms, is expected to be out about a month (Thoroughbred Daily News) |
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Gaudreau is on course for the Grade 1 Champagne at Belmont Park on 3 October, his first start since winning at first asking at Saratoga on 8 August. Chad Brown has given the Nyquist colt five workouts since, the most recent four furlongs in 47.83 at Saratoga on 19 September (Thoroughbred Daily News) |
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Sippican Harbor sells in Book 1 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale on 3 November, in foal to Into Mischief. The Grade 1 Spinaway winner is the dam of the Florida Derby winner Commandment and carries a full sibling to him. Taylor Made consigns her, along with her weanling colt by McKinzie (Thoroughbred Daily News) |
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An Olympiad filly topped the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s Alberta yearling sale at 110,000 dollars, bought by Newtown Anner Stud Farm from the Highfield Investment Group draft. Seventy four yearlings sold for 1,119,200 dollars, up 10 percent on last year, and the buyback rate fell to 22.9 percent from 27 (Thoroughbred Daily News) |
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International
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Europe
Hurricane Fly dies at 22 at the Irish National Stud
Hurricane Fly has died at the Irish National Stud aged 22. The son of Montjeu won the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham in 2011 and 2013, took the Irish Champion Hurdle five years running from 2011 to 2015, and retired that year with a record 22 Grade 1 wins for Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh. Mullins called him one of the greatest horses ever to come through the stable, and Walsh said he was without doubt the best jumper of a hurdle he ever rode (Thoroughbred Daily News)
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Australasia
Winx foals a Too Darn Hot filly at Coolmore
Winx has produced a filly by Too Darn Hot, foaled late on Tuesday night at Coolmore in the Hunter Valley and reported three weeks overdue. It is the third foal for the mare who won 25 Group 1 races and her last 33 starts, after a Pierro filly who made 10 million Australian dollars at Inglis Easter in 2024 and an unnamed Snitzel two year old. Part owner Peter Tighe said all that matters is that Winx and her foal are healthy and well (Thoroughbred Daily News, Breednet)
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Markets overnight
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Dow 51,511.59, down 0.7% (Associated Press) |
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S&P 500 7,706.03, down 0.8% (Associated Press) |
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Nasdaq Composite 26,936.04, down 1.1% (Associated Press) |
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10-year Treasury yield 5.11%, up 13.7 basis points (Investrade market review) |
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US Dollar Index 101.14, up 0.54% (Investing.com) |
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Gold, December futures, 4,318.40 dollars, down 1.33% (Investrade market review) |
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WTI crude 92.16 dollars, up 1.81% (Investrade market review) |
As of the Wednesday 23 September close. Every figure is linked to the page it was read from. Bitcoin is omitted today because no completed daily close for 23 September could be sourced. Nothing here is estimated, rounded from memory or carried forward.
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The week ahead
| Thu 24 Sep |
Keeneland September resumes, the tenth of twelve sessions |
| Fri 25 Sep |
Santa Anita opens its autumn meet |
| Sat 26 Sep |
Keeneland September closes after twelve sessions |
| Sat 26 Sep |
The Goffs Million at the Curragh, worth one million euros |
| Tue 29 Sep |
The Keeneland November catalogue goes online |
| Sun 4 Oct |
The Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at ParisLongchamp |
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