Three hours into the third day of promoting on the Keeneland November Breeding Inventory Sale Nov. 7, the stakes-placed Tapit mare Veronica Greene dropped the hammer for $725,000, the second-highest value of the day.
Consigned as Hip 838 from ELiTE, agent for White Birch Farm, the 5-year-old mare entered Thursday’s ring with one of the vital energetic households of the Guide 2 catalog. Two of her half siblings, Cugino (Twirling Sweet ) and Battle of Normandy (Metropolis of Mild ) are each entered in graded stakes races this weekend.
“I believed she was among the best mares within the sale at present,” mentioned ELiTE’s Liz Crow. “She has two half brothers working in stakes this weekend, she’s in foal to Justify—a tremendously good cowl. She’s a lovely mare and she or he might run herself, she was stakes-placed in New York. She was prepped by Des Ryan and she or he appeared incredible coming in right here and so yeah we had been anticipating she could be one of many high mares right here at present.”
Veronica Greene left a memorable impression on Richard and Denise Brunacini, who stopped by the ELiTE consignment quite a few instances during the last 24 hours to see the mare.
“She had every part,” mentioned Richard Brunacini, a former stakes-winning coach and former proprietor of the stud farm Brunacini Farms in New Mexico. “She’s by Tapit. She’s in foal to Justify, and she or he’s simply stunning. She’s a younger mare having her first child, and her conformation, every part was excellent. I could not fault her.”
As a yearling, Veronica Greene was acquired by Peter Brant for $260,000 on the 2020 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Skilled by Chad Brown, the mare received twice from 10 begins and bankrolled $195,500. She is out of the stakes-winning Kitten’s Pleasure mare Cute Miss .
Veronica Greene’s 3-year-old half brother Cugino is the 5-2 morning-line second selection within the Nov. 9 $200,000 Hill Prince Stakes (G3T) at Aqueduct Racetrack. Earlier this yr, the Shug McGaughey-trained colt captured the Audubon Stakes at Churchill Downs and positioned in Keeneland‘s Transylvania Stakes (G3T). The mare’s 4-year-old half brother, Battle of Normandy, vies for his first black-type victory in Saturday’s $300,000 River Metropolis Stakes (G3T) at Churchill Downs after successful his final three begins, all in New York allowance firm, for McGaughey.
The Brunacinis have “10 or 11 mares” they personal in partnership close to Lexington. They offered a weanling colt by Epicenter (Hip 71) for $225,000 through the sale’s opening session Nov. 5. Business breeders, the couple was seeking to reinvest that cash into a brand new broodmare buy.
“We have had yr promoting, and you’ll nearly name me a CPA. I do know the place my tax scenario is,” Brunacini mentioned.
