McKinzie: First-Crop Sales Success

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00:00Four-time grade one winner McKenzie was a standout first crop stallion at the breeding

00:10stock sales.

00:11He had more six-figure weanlings than any other first crop sire at the Keeneland November

00:15sale and at the Keeneland January sale he had the highest yearling average among the

00:19first crop stallions.

00:21We talked to Gainesway's Ryan Norton about why buyers are loving the McKenzie's.

00:27McKenzie foals are really looking the part.

00:28They got real long legs, huge shoulders, really nice hips, big bodies.

00:33The trait that the McKenzie foals have the most of is the height.

00:36If you have a mare that needs some leg, he will definitely provide that to the mare.

00:42Everyone's excited about his weanlings at the auction.

00:45How could they not be?

00:46He had 17 six-figure weanlings with an average of 135,000.

00:49That was the second highest average for a first crop weanling, only behind Authentic

00:54who started to stud feed twice the amount as he did.

00:57The $300,000 Colt by McKenzie out of Take Charge Angel had a lot of presence.

01:02Once again, it had a lot of leg like we've seen with many of his foals, a great hip.

01:06Just had a general good presence at the sale.

01:09Then being from the family of Cave Rock, not going to hurt, so it's easy to see why he

01:13brought $300,000 to the Van Latham.

01:15Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm purchased Philly out of the mare Grain 6.

01:19She just had presence and she floated.

01:21She was a great walker.

01:23She was very athletic.

01:24Candy Meadows also purchased a horse for $275,000.

01:28Huge hip on that.

01:29Great walk.

01:30Good body.

01:31Once again, had the height that people are looking for in these foals.

01:34McKenzie had the two top priced first crop yearlings in the Keeneland January sale and

01:39had additional four six-figure horses with an average of 145,000 in that sale.

01:44With the Van Latham, Mandy Pope, Candy Meadows, and the like buying these horses, you couldn't

01:49ask for these horses to get in better hands.

01:51Whether they're going to be, you'll see them again in the yearling sales coming up or on

01:55the racetrack, these are the hands that you'd like these horses to get in because you know

01:58they're going to give every opportunity to succeed.

02:00The horse was very well received by the general public.

02:03He bred 214 mares his first year and bred 171 mares in his second year.

02:07He gives a lot of height.

02:08Gives a lot of length of body.

02:10Gives a lot of size and scope to them.

02:12The breeders can't wait for the summer and fall yearling sales.

02:15How could they not with how well the weanlings were received?

02:18The Breyers, I've had several penhookers come up to me at the sales and were very upset

02:21that they couldn't even buy one.

02:22They love the way the McKenzie's look, but were bemoaning the fact that they couldn't

02:26get one.

02:27So I think you'll have some two-year-old guys still looking to get some of these as well.

02:31Some people forget that the McKenzie was a grade one winner at two.

02:34So he certainly has the precocity that they should come out early.

02:37So I think some of the two-year-old guys will be very intrigued by how these yearlings are

02:41received at the marketplace.

02:42I think it's a fantastic time for breeders to breed the McKenzie this year in his third

02:46year.

02:47I think people will come to the marketplace as his two-year-olds hit the racetrack, and

02:50I think they're poised for some huge success.

02:52So I think people that breed now will be well rewarded by the time they take their yearlings

02:56to the marketplace.

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