I spent much of the night with a New York-based publicist working for Keeneland, and we both marveled at the amount of wealth in the room, and how all of these people had lives that revolved around horses.
According to the American Horse Council, horses are a $122 billion industry in the US.
During Keeneland's September sale, which began the following day, the people in the room would spend hundreds of thousands or even millions on year-old horses in hopes they'd be the next great race horses. The first day of the sale, more than $46 million worth of horses would be sold in a single day.