Virginia-Bred Long On Value Offered At Keeneland Sale

Long On Value, Airoforce Among Sale Prospects

Horses of racing age offered at Keeneland Nov. 13-14.

This article appeared on Bloodhorse.com November 13th. Virginia-bred Long On Value will be offered at the Keeneland Sale. The 6 year old Value Plus horse was bred by Snow lantern Thoroughbreds and was trained by Bill Mott. He won almost 1 Million in purse earnings from 30 career starts.

Horses of racing age will step up to the plate at the Keeneland November sale Nov. 13-14, with graded stakes winning horses and colts, and a few geldings, scheduled to go through the ring.

Long On Value works out at Woodbine in September. Photo by Michael Burns.

Long On Value, who has earned more than $980,000 in 30 starts, is offered by ELiTE as Hip 2884A. A grade 2 winner, the 6-year-old Value Plus horse last raced in the Ricoh Woodbine Mile Stakes (G1T) Sept. 16, where he placed third. In March, he ran second in the Al Quoz Sprint Sponsored By Azizi Developments (G1) at Meydan. The Virginia-bred is out of the Orientate mare Long Message.

Long On Value is shown winning the Grade II Twilight Derby at the 2014 Breeders’ Cup. Photo Courtesy Benoit Photo.

Hip 2814 is multiple graded winner Airoforce. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency as a racing or stallion prospect, the 4-year-old Colonel John colt has a grade 2 win on the dirt and a grade 3 win on the turf and was grade 1-placed as a 2-year-old. He is out of the winning Cuvee mare Chocolate Pop and was a $350,000 purchase at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales’ spring sale of 2-year-olds in training.

Also slated to go through the ring is grade 2 winner One Go All Go, consigned as Hip 2865 by Taylor Made; grade 3 winner Ocean Knight, consigned by WinStar Racing as Hip 2864; and stakes-placed Gettysburg, the regular work mate for Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Gun Runner , consigned as 2846 by WinStar.