James J. Toner
Forest Boyce
Phillips Racing Partnership
Phillips Racing Partnership
Bellavais |
Tapit | Pulpit |
| Tap Your Heels | ||
| La Cloche | Ghostzapper | |
| Memories of Silver |
| Sale / Hip / Type | Buyer / Consignor | Price |
|---|---|---|
KEEJAN2018Hip 334 | Broodmare / Racing Prospect |
|
$485,000 |
Keeneland realized double-digit growth in gross, average and median prices during the Jan. 8 opening session of the 2018 January horses of all ages sale, which was highlighted by the $485,000 purchase by agent Steve Young of Bellavais.
Bellavais, a 4-year-old Tapit filly descended from one of Darby Dan Farm's storied equine families was sold for $485,000 to highlight the Jan. 8 first day of Keeneland's January horses of all ages sale.
G. Watts Humphrey's homebred Morticia secured her second stakes win of the season May 20 when she just held off Lull to win the $100,000 Soaring Softly Stakes on the Belmont Park turf.
After finishing fifth in her graded stakes debut, Phillips Racing Partnership's Bellavais will try to return to her stakes-winning form when she faces an expected seven other 3-year-old fillies in the Soaring Softly Stakes May 20 at Belmont Park.
La Coronel stamped herself the pro-tem leader of a deep bunch of 3-year-old turf fillies when she handily bested an 11-horse field that included 2016 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) winner New Money Honey and runner-up Coasted.
