Photo Call Brings $3M at Keeneland

Grade I winner Photo Call was purchased by Crupi's New Castle Farm for $3 million to take over as the top-priced offering at the 2015 Keeneland November breeding stock sale.

J. J. Crupi said the filly, bought on behalf of an unnamed client, will be sent to Todd Pletcher to continue her racing career, beginning training in either New York or at Palm Meadows.

"I thought this filly was a real nice filly, we're going to race her for a while and then she'll go to our breeding program where she'll definitely fit," Crupi said.



Selling as a racing or broodmare prospect by Craig and Holly Bandoroff's Denali Stud, the 4-year-old Galileo filly won the Rodeo Drive Stakes (gr. IT) and Violet Stakes (gr. IIIT) this year and has earned $399,562. Most recently she finished fifth in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (gr. IT) at Keeneland.



Photo Call was bred in Ireland by Mrs. Evie Stockwell.

Just after purchasing Photo Call, Crupi went to $1.3 million for a weanling Tapit   filly half sister to grade I winners Hoppertunity and Executiveprivilege from the Eaton Sales consignment on behalf of the same client, who he said has 25 mares throughout Central Kentucky.

The weanling will go to Crupi's New Castle in Ocala for initial training. The owner plans to race her with Pletcher, and then eventually add her to the broodmare band.

"We bought her for her breeding," Crupi said. "She had a perfect physical; just perfect, I thought she was great."

 

Bred in Kentucky by Barronstown Stud, the filly was produced from Refugee, a stakes-placed daughter of Unaccounted For. The filly's third dam is the champion Davona Dale.

Frank Angst contributed to this story