- By Katie Warren
Searching For A Kentucky Derby Winner
What it's like going to the world's biggest horse sale, where royals and millionaires dropped $360 million this year on horses they hope might be the next Kentucky Derby winner
By Katie Warren
Every September, wealthy horse-racing fans, buyers, and sellers converge on Kentucky's second-largest city, Lexington, known as "the horse capital of the world."
Lexington is surrounded by hundreds of horse farms and is home to the world's largest thoroughbred horse auction house, Keeneland, which also hosts races. At Keeneland's September yearling sale, buyers drop millions on 1-year-old horses that have never even been ridden. In 2019 in particular, buyers spent more than $360 million on 2,855 of these horses (also called "yearlings") at the September sale.
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