News - LAUREL RIVER (USA)

The second session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale is underway and setting the pace is a colt by champion sire Into Mischief that sold for US$3.7million to MV Magnier/ White Birch Farm.

It’s been a history making week in North America for champion sire Into Mischief, who sired his 200th stakes winner when brilliant 3YO Deep Flame won the Group III Churchill Downs Maxfield Stakes (7f)  and the colt is also his 100th Group winner with the victory making his sire the first in America to break US$250 million in progeny earnings.

Victorian breeders will have access to no fewer than nine new stallions in 2026.

Anybody that follows pedigree trends in Australian Group I racing can see that the stallion now exerting a huge influence at the elite level through his myriad of sire sons and daughters is the 2002 Dubai World Cup winner Street Cry (IRE).

The jaw-dropping highlight of the Dubai World Cup meeting was reserved for the US$12 million feature, when the lightly raced Laurel River (USA) gave last year’s winner Ushba Tesoro (JPN) and Saudi Cup hero Senor Buscador an eight-and-a-half-length thrashing.