The final sale of the yearling sale season saw OLYMPIAD’s first crop sell for up to $290,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sales.
That colt was purchased by Kenny McPeek for $290,000 from Eaton Sales during the final session of the sale.
He is the second foal out of Count On Caroline, who saw her unraced MCKINZIE juvenile filly bring $120,000 at this sale last year. This colt was also bred by Drumkenny Farm and American Equistock and originally sold as a weanling. Count On Caroline is a Sky Mesa half-sister to the four-time stakes winning Sweet Cassiopeia and multiple Grade 3 placed All Star Red from the nine winners out of My Sweet Caroline.
This family gets stronger the longer you look with the colt’s granddam a half-sister to the granddam of Horse of the Year Knicks Go. Others included on the page are Grade 1 winners Countus In, Count Again, Ransom The Moon, and Broodmare of the Year Count to Three.
Mike Ryan went to $200,000 to purchase a colt from Scott Mallory’s consignment during the final day of selling as well.
Bred by Highlight Thoroughbreds and Haugh Stables, the colt is the third foal out of the Into Mischief mare Into Candy. That 8-year-old is a three-quarter sister to Grade 3 winner and Grade 2-placed Shidabhuti and the stakes placed Knox Court out of Candy Ride mare A.P. Indy. This is also the family of this year’s Grade 2 winner and Grade 1-placed Barnes, Grade 1 winners Majestic Warrior and Dream Supreme, and multiple stakes winner and Grade 2-placed Wind Fire.
A St George Sales offered colt out of Summersault was sold for $165,000 to Mark Stanley during the second day of selling.
Now named Humble Hero and bred in New York by Sequel Thoroughbreds, Robert Cromartie, and Tuscany Bloodstock, this is the second time he has sold with the colt bringing six figures as a weanling as well. He is out of the Grade 3 winning Summersault, who is also a half-sister to the stakes placed Singular Sensation with their dam Saratoga Summer producing six winners from eight runners.
There are 12 more stakes horses under the colt’s third dam with the group led by Grade 2 winners New Trails and Tizaqueena, Grade 3 winners Miss Mo Mentum and Lookin For Eight and the Grade 1-placed You’re My Girl.
OLYMPIAD’s 16 yearlings sold at this sale brought a combined $1.325 million with his 99 yearlings sold this year averaging $92,136.