Lady Eli Among Keeneland November Offerings
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Photo: Chad B. Harmon
Lady Eli after her Flower Bowl victory
Multiple grade I winner Lady Eli, who returned to top form after missing more than a year due to a bout with laminitis, is among the grade/group I winners consigned to the upcoming Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
Trained by Chad Brown for Sheep Pond Partners, the 4-year-old daughter of Divine Park won the 2014 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (gr. IT) during a six-race win streak. She subsequently developed laminitis, which can be fatal, and in her second start after the long layoff won Flower Bowl Stakes (gr. IT) Oct. 9, receiving a standing ovation from the Belmont Park crowd.
That victory, which followed a second in her Aug. 27 return in the Ballston Spa (gr. IIT), clinched a spot in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. IT).
Lady Eli is consigned by Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency as Hip 466.
Other elite fillies or mares Keeneland has cataloged among the 4,762 horses for the Nov. 8-20 sale in Lexington are Stellar Wind, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2015 who has twice defeated superstar Beholder in grade I races this year; My Conquestadory, the Darley Alcibiades (gr. I) winner who is being offered in foal to leading sire Tapit ; Just a Game (gr. I) winner Celestine; Test Stakes (gr. I) winner Paola Queen; Peace and War, another Alcibiades winner in foal to Tapit; Del Mar Oaks (gr. I) winner Personal Diary; grade I winner Street Fancy; and Secret Gesture, a group II-winning daughter of top international sire Galileo who is in foal to leading sire War Front .
In 2015 the November sale sold the world's highest-priced Thoroughbred at public auction for the year and registered a North American record price for a weanling for the second consecutive year.
The 2016 November sale will include the dispersals of Ernie Semersky and Dory Newell's Conquest Stables, for which Lane's End will serve as agent; Marc Ferrell's VinMar Farm (St. George Sales, agent); and Jim Eigel's Rosemont Farm (Trackside Farm, agent).
November sale catalogs are available on Keeneland.com.