00:00Earlier this week, the Penn family celebrated an unforgettable day at Keeneland September
00:07when their consignment sold its first seven-figure yearling.
00:11Now they're on to book three, where they'll send six yearlings through the ring.
00:16The Uncle Mo, our Penn Sales first million dollar or seven-figure horse that we've sold,
00:22was bred and owned by Barsi Racing Stable from Oregon, Pam and Neil Christofferson.
00:28And he just came out as a classic Uncle Mo.
00:31He was super nice from the day he was born and just big, athletic, good feet, good walk.
00:39We bring horses to sale.
00:40We don't set really high reserves.
00:44We're not here chasing seven figures on a regular basis, but we would probably be lying
00:51if we didn't get our hopes up a little bit about noon the day he sold because we had
00:55so many of the big, big folks coming back and coming back to look at him.
00:591,400,000 to have, stand in the back, 1,350,000, thank you.
01:04I was working on the farm.
01:05He wasn't here.
01:06I wasn't even here.
01:07He was here.
01:08I was prepping the other ones at home.
01:09He didn't make it back to watch them sell.
01:10They were drinking champagne and I was grooming horses.
01:12The Keeneland brought them champagne, but we were all in bed and asleep by eight o'clock
01:17that night.
01:18I definitely am very honored to be a part of that, but life goes on and more horses
01:24and just get up and do the next thing tomorrow.
01:29So we have six here in book three, a couple of really nice colts, the first foal out of
01:34a young mare of the family that has been so good to us, the family of Arklow.
01:39This 1241 colt by Blame is everything that family is.
01:44He's a really classy colt.
01:47And then we have a foal brother to Kaling who ran third in the spin away last year.
01:56So that's pretty exciting to have a nice colt, a foal to that kind of family.
02:02And then we have a Vekoma who is just young sire, but super athletic, has a great big
02:09walk on him and just really screams racehorse.
02:13What John and Frank started has been easy for us to just kind of now, you know, tailor
02:18it more to the sales market.
02:21Hopefully they go on and be racehorses.
02:23There's very few farms left that do literally everything themselves all the way from clean
02:29installs to bathing, to prepping, to breeding, to foaling, to, I mean, there's not an aspect
02:35of it that we don't do.
02:38And I think it makes a difference because we can, we control, we care.
02:42It's our livelihood and we keep year round clients.
02:45Pretty much that's the only thing we keep.
02:47So everything on the farm is there year round.
02:50And so all the horses there have our attention 365 days a year.
02:55I bought it in 81, there was, you know, a little over 400 acres and now it's a thousand.
03:00So there's been a lot of crops, not just horses, there's been tobacco, even squash a time or
03:06two.
03:07I'm pretty proud to continue the tradition, you know, they pride themselves on their reputation
03:11and I hope to keep that going.
03:14We're here for the long haul, you know, honest and raising a good horse and, you know, doing
03:19right by the horse and hoping that, you know, they'll go on and, you know, have a sound
03:24and very successful career.
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