$1.1 million Into Mischief colt tops strong trade on Day 1 of OBS March sale

A pair of colts by Into Mischief sold for seven-figure price tags as the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s March sale of 2-year-olds in training came roaring out of the gate Tuesday to kick off the season with a bang.

OBS reported 188 juveniles sold during Tuesday's opener of a two-session sale for gross receipts of $26,325,000. During the 2021 opening session, 175 horses sold for $19,125,500.

Tuesday's average price was $140,207, soaring 28 percent from $109,289 in the comparable session last year. The median was $77,500, spiking 41 percent from $55,000.

A colt by Into Mischief, the nation's three-time reigning leading sire, sold for $1.1 million to Hideyuki Mori to assume the session lead. Twenty hips later, another colt by the classic sire sold for $1 million to the partnership of the BSW/Crow Colts Group, Spendthrift Farm, and Chester and Mary Broman.

Mori's purchase, consigned by agent Eddie Woods, had breezed a furlong in 9 4/5 seconds on the Ocala Training Center's all-weather Safetrack surface during the under-tack show, making him part of a large group tied for the second-fastest time. The colt is out of the Not For Love mare Zapara, whose first starter is stakes-placed Basso. Zapara is a half-sister to Grade 1 winner and stakes producer Hedonist, to Grade 2 winner Seeking Daylight, to stakes winner Zaha, to Grade 2-placed Gold Player, and to stakes producer Cat Play.

The second seven-figure Into Mischief colt was purchased in partnership by the BSW/Crow Colts Group, a partnership purchasing colts intended for trainer Brad Cox; by Spendthrift Farm, which stands his sire; and by the Bromans, who bred the colt in New York. The perennial state-leading breeders retained a piece of the action after consigning the colt via Sequel Bloodstock.

The colt, who breezed his furlong in 10 1/5 seconds, is out of the Bromans's multiple Grade 1-winning homebred Artemis Agrotera. The Roman Ruler mare is the dam of three winners from as many starters, including stakes winner Chestertown. This is the family of Grade 1 winner Stephen Got Even.

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