$800,000 In-Foal Mare Leads Way for Mo At Keeneland

Wrapping up another top-level year on the track with his runners, Uncle Mo was in high demand at this year’s Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Buyers paid up to $800,000 for his in-foal mares with Meadow Wood Farm going to $800,000 to purchase Ganadora from Hill ‘n’ Dale.

Selling during the first book of the sale, Ganadora was a stakes winner at three and multiple graded stakes placed at four for $226,600 in earnings before retiring and being bred to Uncle Mo for her first foal. The mare is one of two stakes performers out of the Grade II placed Beloveda alongside stakes placed Mistress of Love. This page includes nine stakes performers with five winning at the stakes level.

Other mares carrying to Uncle Mo sold for $410,000, $325,000, $310,000, etc. with his $318,636 average second highest of all stallions with 10 or more sold behind only Justify.

Uncle Mo saw his daughters sell for up to $600,000 with Fergus Galvin going to that price to buy Lucky For You from Eaton Sales.

A two-time winner carrying her first foal by Justify on a February 8 cover, she is out of the Grade III winner and multiple Grade I-placed Molto Vita. Molta Vita was a prolific producer with six winners from seven to race including stakes winners Jaguar Paw and Venetian Mask.

Her winning Bernardini daughter Grazie Mille is also the dam of Uncle Mo’s Grade I winning son and studmate Mo Town and Justify’s stakes winner and Grade II-placed Justique alongside Uncle Mo’s stakes placed Champagne Lady. Another one of Grazie Mille’s daughters also produced stakes winner West Memorial by another Uncle Mo son.

An Uncle Mo daughter carrying to Munnings sold for $475,000 to Harmony Farm while Gainesway bought Uncle Mo’s stakes winning racing/broodmare prospect Airosa for $435,000.

Uncle Mo daughters are quickly boosting him to elite broodmare sire status with their 420 runners including 43 stakes performers. Among those are 23 stakes winners led by Grade I winners Thorpedo Anna, Muth, Howard Wolowitz, and Geaux Rocket Ride.