Hunter Valley Adds Nereid to Family for $1.25M

After going to $2.1 million one night earlier across town for Separationofpowers, Hunter Valley Farm was back in action Nov. 6 at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale and secured grade 1 winner Nereid for $1.25 million on behalf of an unnamed partnership. 

Nereid, an 11-year-old Rock Hard Ten mare, is the dam of stakes winner Figarella's Queen and is believed to be carrying a Quality Road  foal.

"The (partners) were involved in Separationofpowers last night. They are after those type mares," Hunter Valley manager Fergus Galvin said. "We have her daughter, Figarella's Queen, as well. There is plenty going for her in the family.

"She has a good sales record and is in foal to the right stallion. She'll absolutely stay here. She has a great sales record, like I said, and we're already kind of attached to her since we have Figarella's Queen, who is in foal to Into Mischief , so we're very happy with that."

Nereid was consigned as Hip 39 by Lane's End, agent. Figarella's Queen, by Medaglia d'Oro , won the Sanibel Island Stakes on turf and was second in the Indiana Oaks (G3) on dirt. Nereid proved her racetrack credentials on the turf, winning the American Oaks (G1T) and placing in the Del Mar Oaks (G1T), Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (G1T), and Rodeo Drive Stakes (G1T). She has produced three winners from four starters.

"She's such a good-looking mare and throws such good-looking stuff, you have to reach a little bit more for those kind of mares," Galvin said. "She's the type of mare that we could very easily be out on in two foals."

Nereid was bred in Kentucky by Mr. and Mrs. Emler Neuman out of the Belong to Me mare Dowry. She is a half sister to stakes winner Sea Queen, who was runner-up in the Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1T).

Separationofpowers, winner of the Frizette Stakes (G1) and Longines Test Stakes (G1), was consigned by ELiTE to The November Sale, Fasig-Tipton's marquee breeding stock sale in Lexington. 

Nereid was first sold at the 2009 Keeneland September Yearling Sale through Castlepark Farm's consignment and brought $190,000 from Blandford Bloodstock. She returned in the 2013 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale after concluding her racing career, and Baumann Stables purchased her for $1.3 million from the Winter Quarter Farm consignment.