Keeneland today has announced that Grade 1 winner and $2.8 million earner Simply in Front has been cataloged to the 2026 January Horses of All Ages Sale on Monday, Jan. 12. Richard G. Hogan, agent for Colebrook Farms, is consigning the 4-year-old daughter of Summer Front who is cataloged as a broodmare prospect. Simply in Front is a three-quarter sister to both Grade 1 winner And One More Time, who defeated Nitrogen in the Johnnie Walker Natalma S. (G1) last year, and stakes winner Churchtown and is a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Honor D Lady. 

“Simply in Front is a gorgeous mare who comes from a deep, active family with what could have even more black type on the horizon,” Hogan said. “There is real upside for buyers in 2026 and beyond.”

Simply in Front has delivered top-level performances from age 2 through age 4. In Keeneland’s First Lady (G1) on Oct. 4, she was far back at the top of the stretch in the 1-mile turf race before she moved toward the inside and began splitting horses. Simply in Front collared Grade 1 winner Choisya (GB) inside the sixteenth pole and held off Grade 2 winner Segesta by a neck to win. Segesta won the Matriarch (G1) in her next start.

With the performance, Simply in Front scored her third victory in five starts in 2025. She also won the Churchill Downs Distaff Turf Mile (G2) and the KY Downs Preview Ladies Turf Mile at Ellis Park. At 3, she won the Music City Stakes (G2) and at 2 was runner-up to five-time Grade 1 winner She Feels Pretty in the Grade 1 Natalma.

“Simply in Front gave us one of the highlights of the Fall Meet with her First Lady win,” Keeneland Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy said. “To offer a Grade 1 winner this January is truly special, and she is exactly the quality that buyers will be seeking for their broodmare bands.”

Simply in Front, whose dam is Complicated, by Blame, is from an established Phipps family of champion Inside Information and Grade 1 winner Educated Risk.

The online catalog for the January Sale is scheduled to be available Tuesday, Dec. 9.