$1.1M Curlin Colt to Carlisle on Day 4 at Keeneland

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The Curlin colt consigned as Hip 977 in the ring at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale

Halfway through the fourth session at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, agent Lauren Carlisle, buying for an undisclosed client, saw out rapid-fire bidding to acquire a $1.1 million Curlin   colt consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency.

The Breeze Easy-bred yearling, Hip 977, is out of the 2017 Raven Run Stakes (G2)-winning Into Mischief   mare Miss Sunset . 


Carlisle declined to indicate what region the colt would be raced, saying that was to be determined.

"He looks really fast and hopefully he proves that. He has a really good walk and looks very athletic," she said. "We're looking for a nice two-turn colt and hopefully he can be that horse."

Asked if she thought the colt would command so much at auction, she said, "I was worried that the price would be that high; I did not want it to be but that is how it is right now."

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"That was awesome," Duncan Taylor, senior Thoroughbred consultant for Taylor Made Sales, remarked as he entered the sales seating area to congratulate Carlisle.

The bloodstock agent also bought a Medaglia d'Oro   colt, Hip 942, for $110,000 earlier during the Thursday session.

His brother, Mark Taylor, president and CEO of Taylor Made Sales, called the rewarding sale a tribute to the Breeze Easy breeding program after the death of one of Breeze Easy's two partners, Sam Ross, in December 2022. Mike Hall is the surviving Breeze Easy partner.

Hip 977's dam has produced two other registered foals, a 3-year-old winning full brother named O'Conner Sunset  and an unraced Quality Road   2-year-old colt named Track Phantom, who has been breezing at Churchill Downs.