1996 Keeneland September Yearling Sales started on Monday with 264 yearlings selling for a gross of $36,786,000, an average of $139,341 - 13 per cent and 24.1 per cent up respectively on last year's equivalent figures.
The most expensive was the $800,000 given by Dorothy Sharbauer for a chestnut son of Storm Cat out of the Grade Three winning Fappiano mare, With a Twist.
Criquette Head's Pas de Reponse justified favouritism in the Group Three Prix d'Arenberg over five-and-a-half furlongs at Evry yesterday. The 2 to 1 on shot made most and ran on again to score a decisive length and a half win.
Tote Cesarewitch favourite Canon Can will be officially 15lb dwell-in in next month's £50,000-added handicap. British Horseracing Board stayers' handicapper Philip Smith has raised the colt's rating by more than a stone after last week's comfortable Pontefract conditions race victory.
Walter Swinburn was fined £125 by the Lingfield stewards after the HBLB Blindly Heath Handicap yesterday. The rider of Really A Dream drawn three, Swinburn went into stall number four and John Egan, the rider of Rakis, drawn four, went in stall number three.
