Thanks for Bountiful November Sales

November 21, 2007

Congratulations and thank you to all the purchasers of horses from our consignment to the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Bandini’s half sister Ashley Hall led the way for the Lantern Hill Farm consignment on November 6, selling for $825,000 on the bid of Croom House Stud manager Paul McCartan. Mr. McCartan purchased the winning daughter of the late Maria’s Mon on behalf of Denis Brosnan’s Epona Bloodstock, a division of Croom House Stud.

Ashley Hall is a daughter of Divine Dixie, which Lantern Hill sold for $2 million at the 2005 Fasig-Tipton November Selected Breeding Stock Sale. She is carrying her first foal by Bandini’s sire, Fusaichi Pegasus.

Croom House Stud raised Group 1 winners Candy Glen and Lavinia Fontana In County Limerick, Ireland, but Ashley Hall will likely join the broodmare band at the family’s newly acquired Kilflynn Farm in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Mr. Brosnan is chairman of Ireland’s leading food ingredients company, Kerry Group, and has served two terms at the helm of Ireland’s horse racing governing body, HorseRacing Ireland.

“I am thrilled that Ashley Hall will join such a distinguished breeding program, and thank Epona Bloodstock for their continued confidence in our horses,” Suzi Shoemaker said.

Epona Bloodstock had notable success with a Lantern Hill-bred colt it purchased as a weanling at the 2005 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale for $275,000. When resold at the 2006 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, the Johannesburg-Western Friend yearling brought $535,000 from Angie Sykes Bloodstock. Look for the colt, now named Strategic Knight, to run in 2008 under the tutelage of Paul Cole.

Also during the Keeneland November sale, Dixieland Band’s daughter Tally Ho Dixie topped the session when she sold for $285,000 to James T. Scatuorchio. Mr. Scatuorchio is best known to racing fans as the owner, with Michael B. Tabor and Derrick Smith, of Florida Derby (G1) winner Scat Daddy, who was recently retired to Ashford Stud.

(For more on Tally Ho Dixie, please read Tally One for Lantern Hill)