$270,000 Not This Time filly tops Day 2 at OBS July sale

Freshman sire Not This Time recorded another strong sale result, as a filly by the young stallion sold for $270,000 to lead Wednesday’s second session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.'s July sale of 2-year-olds and horses of racing age. However, the sale continued to post declines in economic indicators after also doing so in Tuesday’s opener.

OBS reported 155 horses sold for a total of $3,869,800 in the second of three sessions, compared with 225 grossing $7,719,700 at last year’s second session. The 2019 auction was held on its traditional dates in June; this year's renewal, the finale of the juvenile sale season in North America, was pushed back due to the coronavirus pandemic. The year-to-year decline in gross can be partially attributed to the buyback rate, which finished at 26 percent on Wednesday compared to 17 percent in the 2019 second session.

The average price for the session was $24,966, a drop of 27 percent compared with $34,310 a year ago, while the median price was $13,000, down 26 percent from $17,500 in the comparable session.

Not This Time’s session-topping filly was purchased by Emerald Sales, as agent for Tobey L. Morton. The New York-bred filly, who was consigned by de Meric Sales, as agent, breezed a furlong in 9 4/5 seconds on the Ocala Training Center's all-weather Safetrack surface to tie for the bullet work at the distance during the under-tack preview show.

The filly, a May foal, is out of Exotic Design, who has produced two winners from five starters. The A.P. Indy mare is out of multiple Grade 1 winner Exotic Wood, making her a full sister to stakes winner Key to Power.

Not This Time, a Grade 3 winner as a juvenile, has emerged as one of the early leaders of this freshman class with three individual winners thus far, including Hopeful Princess, who is entered in Thursday's Grade 3 Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga. He averaged $63,746 from 68 first-crop yearlings sold at public auction last year, more than four times their conception stud fee of $15,000 at Taylor Made Farm. He is averaging $182,735 from 34 juveniles sold thus far this year, led by a $1.35 million filly who topped the OBS spring sale and a $650,000 colt who was the third-highest price at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale.

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