Midnight Bisou to be sold at Keeneland’s November Breeding Stock Sale

Champion Midnight Bisou, in foal to Tapit, has been supplemented to Book 1 of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, Keeneland announced on Thursday.

The seven-year-old daughter of Midnight Lute will be consigned by Hill 'N' Dale at Xalapa to the opening session of the sale, which begins on November 7 at 1pm ET.

Midnight Bisou won the 2018 Cotillion Stakes and Santa Anita Oaks in addition to three other Graded races at three. She was named the champion older dirt female of 2019 at four following a dominating campaign that produced seven wins from eight races.

Among her seven Graded wins that year were victories in the Personal Ensign Stakes at Saratoga, the Ogden Phipps Stakes at Belmont Park, and the Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park.

Midnight Bisou returned in early 2020 to finish second in the $20 million Saudi Cup against males and win the Fleur de Lis Stakes at Churchill Downs. The winner of 13 races from 22 starts over four seasons, she earned $7,451,520 during her illustrious racing career for trainer Steve Asmussen.

"It's impossible to describe what she's meant to me, my family and my partners," said Jeff Bloom, whose Bloom Racing Stable campaigned the mare in partnership with Allen Racing and Madaket Stables. "She took us on an incredible journey and created so many amazing experiences for us across the globe. All those memories I will treasure the rest of my life.

"She effortlessly transitioned to life as a broodmare with the same elegance, class, and intelligence that she displayed as a racehorse."

Midnight Bisou sold for $5 million to Chuck Allen of Allen Racing in 2020 at the November Sale, Fasig-Tipton's marquee breeding stock sale, where she was consigned by ELiTE. She produced her foal, a colt by Curlin, in February.

Bloom sourced Midnight Bisou as a juvenile from the Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training in April of 2017, where she was an $80,000 steal from Woodford Thoroughbreds' consignment. As a weanling, she failed to meet her reserve when consigned by Woodford to the 2016 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, where the hammer fell at $19,000.

Bred by Woodford out of Grade 3 winner Diva Delite, by Repent, Midnight Bisou is a half-sister to recent Champagne Stakes runner-up and Breeders' Cup Juvenile candidate Verifying.

"Midnight Bisou represents the very best of thoroughbred racing," said Tony Lacy, Keeneland's vice president of sales. "She is a world-class racehorse from an active, talented family who is in foal to one of the industry's premier stallions. Keeneland is delighted to offer her during Book 1 of our November Breeding Stock Sale."

Diva Delite, who is in foal to Gun Runner, is also catalogued in Book 1. Out of the winning Tour d'Or mare Tour Hostess, she is consigned by Hunter Valley Farm.

Keeneland will accept supplements to Book 1 until the auction begins.

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