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Bit Livelier for Aussies on Day 3 at Keeneland

Mark Smith - Thursday November 10

Craig Rounsefell’s Boomer Bloodstock and Newgate Farm were back in action, and the first strike for Sheamus Mills highlighted the Aussie action on Day 3 at Keeneland.

Lot 679 Cantata (Medaglia d’Oro x Stoweshoe by Flatter) Boomer Bloodstock $300,000.

Sold with a positive test to leading sire Munnings, Cantata is a twice-winning daughter of a stakes-winner sister to Gr1 Humana Distaff Stakes winner Taris and half-sister to stakes-winner Theatre Star (War Front).

Taris is the dam of the talented King Fury, a stakes-winning son of Curlin, who was third behind the Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup runner-up Hot Rod Charlie in the GII Lukas Classic Stakes at Churchill Downs on October 1.

Lot 807 Lady Lilly (Nyquist x Miss Inclined by Pulpit) Sheamus Mills Bloodstock $250,000.

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A winner at Saratoga at two, Lady Lily was third in the Gr1 Spinaway Stakes behind fellow Nyquist filly Vequist who would go on to win the 2020 Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Keeneland.

A daughter of the stakes-placed Miss Inclined, Lady Lilly is a half-sister to Hollis (Street Sense) a stakes-winner of 12 races and over $645,000.

Lot 763 Global Brand (War Front x Marketing Mix by Medaglia d’Oro) Newgate Farm & SF Bloodstock $150,000.

A stakes-placed winner carrying a positive test to Caravaggio, Global Brand is a daughter of the Gr1 Gamely Stakes and Gr1 Rodeo Drive (Yellow Ribbon) Stakes winner Marketing Mix who was runner-up to Zaghora in the Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita.

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