A son of Triple Crown winner Justify currently named Just Before Dawn sold for $625,000 to Coolmore’s M. V. Magnier a couple of hours into the opening Book 2 session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale in Lexington.
The $625,000 price was the highest paid for a weanling colt to that point in the sale overall. A Frankel weanling filly brought $800,000 Nov. 10.
Bidding from his usual position in the back ring, Magnier liked what he saw in the young horse who looks a lot like his famous father.
“He is stamping them as strong horses and good breathers, the lads at home have commented how they are very simple to deal with,” Magnier said.
Bred in Kentucky by Summer Wind Equine, Just Before Dawn (Hip 305) is a son of 2018 Horse of the Year Justify—Unenchantedevening , by Unbridled’s Song. The colt is a half brother to Moonshine Memories , who at age 2 won the 2017 Chandelier (G1) and Del Mar Debutante (G1) stakes in Southern California. He’s also a half brother to grade 2-placed stakes winner Indian Evening , and stakes-placed Mo for the Money .
“He’s a very nice horse. Jane Lyon and everybody from Summer time Wind are excellent breeders. This horse may be very well-bred,” Magnier famous, including that the value might grow to be worth. “Hear, he is by among the finest horses we have now seen in America in a really very long time. With a horse bred like that, and with a great bodily, he deserved to make it.
M. V. Magnier at Keeneland
“Now we have had a little bit of luck with the household earlier than. He’ll go along with about 11 or 12 different horses to Ballydoyle subsequent yr. They appear to be a really particular group of horses. Everybody appears very excessive on them from Paul Shanahan to Dermot Ryan and Aidan O’Brien.
“It is an thrilling group of horses to look ahead to … The pedigrees and physicals they’ve, every thing about them … and with the best way Justify was such a great racehorse, we have now an enormous quantity of religion in them.”
The win-early household of Simply Earlier than Daybreak additionally contains 1997 Horse of the 12 months Favourite Trick, who earned that honor behind an undefeated juvenile season.
