The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June sale closed out the juvenile auction season Wednesday with results the auction house’s general manager says indicate stability in the 2-year-old market.
A pair of $300,000 colts topped the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s reformatted June 2-year-olds and horses of racing age sale, which ended Wednesday evening with a gain in gross but losses in average and median.
A colt by ill-fated first-crop sire Stormello led selling Wednesday afternoon on day two of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June 2-year-old and racing-age auction.
A $300,000 Bernstein colt was the highest-priced horse sold Tuesday at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s reformatted June 2-year-old and racing-age auction.
Five juveniles brought six figures Tuesday in the early hours of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June 2-year-old and racing-age auction.
A Proud Accolade filly cracked the 10-second barrier Sunday at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June 2-year-old auction’s under-tack show, becoming the preview’s fastest worker over a furlong. The bay daughter of Lake Victoria covered an eighth-mile in 9.8 seconds, the fastest time at that distance during the two-day under-tack preview. Agent Lynne Boutte consigns the filly, cataloged as Hip No. 317.
Three juveniles clocked eighth-mile works in 10 seconds Saturday, topping the work tab for that distance at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s first under-tack show for its upcoming June 2-year-old sale.
Audrey and Richard Haisfield’s largest single creditor has asked a Florida bankruptcy court to put the Stonewall Farm founders into involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy due to more than $7 million in alleged unpaid debts.
At 74, California breeder Bud Johnston may be on the verge of a longtime goal, winning the Hollywood Gold Cup. On July 9, the Gold Cup will be run for the 72nd time at Hollywood Park, and Johnston may have a candidate in Acclamation, the multiple stakes-winning California-bred.
Liberation Farm and Brandywine Farm, the breeders of Belmont Stake winner Ruler On Ice, are close neighbors when it comes to the philosophy of breeding and raising Thoroughbred athletes.
