OLYMPIAD’s first foals were in high demand at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, led by a $450,000 filly.
OLYMPIAD was the sire of the most expensive weanling filly of the sale when the filly bred by KMN Racing, LNJ Foxwoods, and Gainesway was purchased by Solis/Litt. The filly is the third foal out of Grade 2 winner Sneaking Out, who won six times in her career and earned over $531,000 on the track.
Sneaking Out isn’t the only stakes winner among her stakes placed dam Maddie’s Odyssey’s even winners either. That mare also produced stakes winners Grecian Fire, Been Studying Her, and Smugglers Run in addition to TAPIT’s stakes placed Personal Pursuit.
Maddie’s Odyssey is also a full sister to two stakes winners and one other stakes producer.
OLYMPIAD also sired the seventh and eighth most expensive weanling colts of the sale.
Grandview Equine purchased a $350,000 colt bred by Emory Hamilton out of multiple Grade 3-placed Special Event from the Gainesway consignment.
Arch mare Special Event is out of Grade 3 winner and multiple Grade 2-placed La Reina, who has been a successful broodmare. The mare is the dam of Grade 2 winner Chief Havoc and Grade 2-placed Aurelius Maximus among her seven winners. She is also the granddam of Grade 3-placed Tejana and stakes winner Kloepatra with two other stakes performers out of her granddaughters.
Le Reina is one of three stakes winners out of her own champion dam, Queena, who also produced Grade 1 winner Brahms.
Whisper Hill Farm is the new owner of a $325,000 colt out of Lady Pewitt offered by Gainesway as well.
Whisper Hill is intimately familiar with his family as the colt is a half-brother to champion Jaywalk and the multiple stakes winning dam of Whisper Hill’s co-owned TAPIT TRICE – who enters stud at Gainesway in 2025. Lady Pewitt has produced six winners from seven to race overall and is a half-sister to the dam of Grade 3-placed Jayhawk.
This is also the family of Grade 2 winners Mission Impazible and Forest Camp among others.
In all, OLYMPIAD’s first weanlings averaged $104,938 for 24 sold for the third highest average of any freshman with 10 or more sold at the sale.