$725,000 Uncle Mo filly tops second session at OBS June sale

A filly by Uncle Mo sold for $725,000 during Wednesday's second session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s June sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age, one of two horses sold for more than $500,000 as the sale gained steam.

OBS reported 217 juveniles sold in Wednesday's second of three sessions for gross receipts of $9,414,000. In last year's corresponding second session, 205 horses brought $8,472,600.

The average price was $43,382, a session-to-session gain of 5 percent from $41,330 on the corresponding day of the 2021 sale. The median spiked 47 percent, to $25,000 from $17,000. As on the first day of the sale, the buyback rate did rise, to 20 percent from 16 percent.

The session-leading Uncle Mo filly was purchased by bloodstock agent Donato Lanni, on behalf of Susan and Charles Chu's Baoma Corp. The filly, from the consignment of Omar Ramirez Bloodstock, is the first foal of racing age out of the Giant's Causeway mare Ultralight Beam. Out of stakes-placed Fleet of Foot, the mare is a half-sister to multiple graded stakes winner His Race to Win. She also is a half-sister to Torreadora, dam of Grade 1 winner and Canadian champion El Tormenta and Grade 3 winner Zero Tolerance; and to Fresia, dam of stakes winner Galilean. The latter is by Uncle Mo.

The Uncle Mo filly had breezed a furlong in 10 seconds flat on the Ocala Training Center's all-weather Safetrack during last week's under-tack preview, making her one of a large group of 46 horses to tie for the second-fastest time of the week. Holding the joint bullet, at 9 4/5 seconds, were fillies by Flatter and Irish War Cry. The Flatter filly's turn in the ring came Wednesday, and Lanni also signed for her, for $625,000, on behalf of Amr Zedan's Zedan Racing.

The Flatter filly, consigned by bloodstock agent Julie Davies, is out of the unraced Candy Ride mare Wicked Ride, dam of three winners from four starters; two of those winners are by stallions from the A.P. Indy sireline.

Wicked Ride is a half-sister to Grade 1 winner and stakes producer Wickedly Perfect, by Flatter's full brother Congrats. Wicked Ride also is a half-sister to stakes winner Wicked Mizz and to Grade 2-placed Ash Zee. Both have produced stakes performers, as has another sister, Wickedly Smart.

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