Dams of Grade 1 superstars added to Keeneland's November Breeding Sale

The dams of Grade 1 winners Midnight Bisou and Swiss Skydiver have been entered in the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale and both mares are offered in foal to Uncle Mo.

Diva Delite and Expo Gold are the headline names in the nine supplementary entries of seven fillies and mares and two weanlings which Keeneland has announced and both mares will be consigned by Hunter Valley Farm.

Grade 3 winner Diva Delite is the dam of champion Midnight Bisou, whose five Grade 1 victories included the Personal Ensign Stakes and the Santa Anita Oaks. The daughter of Midnight Lute won 13 of her 21 career starts and, in addition to that quintet of top-level successes, she was also placed in the Breeders' Cup Distaff twice, the Kentucky Oaks and American Oaks and another running of the Personal Ensign Stakes.

Now a nine-year-old, Midnight Bisou topped the opening day of the 2022 Keeneland November Sale when making $5,500,000 to Katsumi Yoshida, in foal to Tapit.

Her 17-year-old dam has also foaled the stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Stage Left by Congrats and Verifying, who is from the first crop of Justify and won the Grade 2 Indiana Derby and was placed in the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes, Champagne Stakes and the H Allen Jerkins Memorial Stakes. Diva Delite has a yearling colt by Gun Runner.

Expo Gold is the dam of Swiss Skydiver, who in 2020 became the sixth filly to win the Preakness Stakes, defeating Kentucky Derby winner Authentic in a thrilling tussle all the way to the line.

Trained by Kenny McPeek, the daughter of Daredevil also won the Grade 1 Beholder Mile and Alabama Stakes as well as the Santa Anita Oaks. Swiss Skydiver finished second in the Kentucky Oaks and the Blue Grass Stakes and she too was bought by Katsumi Yoshida, in her case at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton November Sale where she brought $4,100,000. Swiss Skydiver visited Kingman for her first covering and has a yearling filly by him.

Her dam, Expo Gold, was a winner at two and three and produced the stakes-placed Miss Hot Legs who is the year elder half-sister to Swiss Skydiver. By Johannesburg, she is the dam of five winners from five runners and has a yearling filly by Into Mischief.

The 16-year-old is out of Clouds Of Gold, twice placed in the Grade 3 Maple Leaf Stakes, and is a Strike The Gold half-sister to the Listed winner Mister Business.

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