The hammer dropped for $714,285 ($500,000 USD) on Hey Bulldog as the son of Bulldog Hanover garnered the highest price of day two of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale on Tuesday, Oct. 6 at the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion in Lexington, Ky.

The colt is out of the Captaintreacherous mare Coronet, out of O'Brien and Dan Patch Award recipient American Jewel. Coronet is a half-sister to millionaire and 2024 Ontario Sires Stakes Super Final champion and Lynch Memorial winner Odds On Platinum. Her latest foal, Dame Frances (by Pebble Beach) won a Kentucky Sire Stakes leg and final this season, with a 1:50.4 track-record performance at Oak Grove Racing in the latter. Hey Bulldog, Hip 198, was consigned by Hunterton Sales Agency and purchased by Andrew Harris of Allentown, N.J., acting as an agent for Punisher 11 Stable LLC. He was the only pacer in the top 10 in purchase price on day two.

Trotabilitarmitage was the second-highest-priced yearling and the top trotter of the session with a price of $642,857 ($450,000 USD). By Chapter Seven and out of the Muscle Mass mare White Cheetah, he is a full brother to New York champion Variegated ($777,335, 1:52.3s) and Sevecheetah ($425,879, 1:54.3f). Ken Jacobs of Baldwinsville, N.Y. purchased the colt, Hip 228, consigned by breeder Armitage Farm LLC.

Miss Kronos, by Tactical Landing out of the French Ready Cash mare Firefly Fr, registered a price of $428,571 ($300,000 USD) from a bid by Sylvain Descheneaux’s Ecurie CSL of Sorel-Tracy, Que. The dam is a half-sister to Estelou, who earned 154,880€ and won seven races in France. Miss Kronos, Hip 227, was consigned by Hunterton Sales Agency.

Dondi White sold for $385,714 ($270,000) to Sabine Kagebrant of Delray Beach, Fla., agent for Courant Inc. The colt, by Walner, is the first foal out of Defacement, a mare out of 2010 New Jersey champion and Merrie Annabelle Stakes winner Thatsnotmyname. Defacement is a half-sister to Security Protected, a millionaire and Breeders Crown show finisher, and stakes winners Basquiat and Fifty Cent Piece. Dondi White was consigned as Hip 206 by Kentuckiana Farms.

Nordic Fantasy, a Walner half-brother to 2025 Hambletonian champion Nordic Catcher S, was sold for $371,428 ($260,000) to Armitage Farm of Wilmington, Dela. Consigned by Hunterton Sales Agency as Hip 367, Nordic Fantasy is out of That Woman Hanover, a stakes-winning daughter of Somebeachsomewhere who took a mark of 1:50 at The Meadowlands. Nordic Catcher S also trotted in 1:50 in his Hambletonian win and has earned $1,216,972.

A total of 256 yearlings were sold during the second session, bringing in $30,814,286 ($21,570,000 USD) for an average of $120,368 ($84,258 USD). The average price was a decrease of two per cent from last year’s day-two per-yearling figure of $86,333 USD. The gross was up 12.5 per cent.

The 2026 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale got underway on Monday, Oct. 5, with the Walner colt Kountry Prince topping the opening session as he went through the sales ring for $1,178,571 ($825,000 USD). Selling as hip 79, Kountry Prince was purchased by Ake Svanstedt of Wrightstown, New Jersey. Kountry Lane Standardbreds consigned the colt, who is out of world champion Plunge Blue Chip (1:49.4 - $1,596,841), and is a three-quarter brother to the undefeated New York Sire Stakes champion, Kountry Plunge (1:54.1 - $399,827).

The sale will continue on Wednesday with another 11 a.m. session and wrap up on Thursday night at 7 p.m.

IMPORTANT LINKS

• Sale Roster
• Sale Catalogue (PDF)
• Catalogue Corrections & Updates
• Outs List
• Online Bidding (via Proxibid)
• Live Video Stream (also available below)
• Sale Results

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