Multiple stakes-winning broodmare prospect Last Leaf sold for $140,000 and is on her way to support one of this year’s most intriguing new stallions after topping the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s winter mixed sale on Tuesday. This single-session sale, one of the final opportunities to acquire breeding stock at public auction before North American breeding sheds open on or about Feb. 10, finished with 213 horses sold for gross receipts of $3,108,700.  There are no true apples-to-apples statistical comparisons to the 2024 edition of this sale due to a format change. Last year’s OBS January sale ran over two days, with a consignor-preferred mixed section and horses of racing age section on the first day, followed by an open session the following day. This year’s live sale was a single open session.  A separate horses of racing age sale is taking place concurrently on the OBS Digital platform. Bidding opened last week and will close Jan. 30. When looking at the mixed offerings – the broodmares and prospects, as well as newly turned yearlings – from last year’s January sale and taking the horses of racing age out of the equation, this year’s marketplace stacked up well in the average and median figures. Tuesday’s average was $14,595, dropping 7 percent, or less than $1,000, from $15,724 for the mixed offerings last year. This year’s median for these offerings rose to $7,500 from $7,000, or 7 percent. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. The buyback rate was 20 percent, the same figure as last year. Bloodstock agent Marette Farrell won out on the bidding for Last Leaf, a 6-year-old Not This Time mare. She was bidding for breeder Joseph Peacock Jr., who used the moniker Senor's Senorita's. Last Leaf will be part of the first book for Peacock’s homebred Group 1 winner Senor Buscador, who recently arrived at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky to begin his stud career.  Peacock has stated his intent to strongly support the Saudi Cup winner at stud. Farrell said that Peacock now has 11 mares, including Last Leaf, to send to the first-year stallion. “We’ve really tried to zero in on mares who have run quality races, stakes-level, just like her,” Farrell said. “Obviously we’ve looked at every mare that works on pedigree because that’s very important. [Peacock] wants to give his stallion his best shot. He is very committed to it.” Last Leaf, who was consigned as a broodmare prospect by Gilberto Martinez, as agent, concluded her racing career with a record of 30-7-6-7 and earnings of $622,058. She won the Hollywood Beach Stakes as a 2-year-old. Early the following year, she was third in the Grade 3 Forward Gal Stakes before going on to win the Melody of Colors Stakes, Game Face Stakes, and Azalea Stakes at Gulfstream Park and the Audubon Oaks at Ellis Park.  She did not win again after her 3-year-old season, but was a solid older runner, placing in six more stakes in her 4- and 5-year-old seasons. This included third-place efforts in the Grade 2 Thoroughbred Club of America and Grade 3 Winning Colors Stakes – the latter to champion Echo Zulu – and a runner-up finish in the Grade 3 Barbara Fritchie early last year. Last Leaf, who is out of the stakes-placed Paddy O'Prado mare My Miss Kallie, was the only horse on the day to break six figures – and was the only broodmare or broodmare prospect in the top 30 prices, as the rest of the day was dominated by foals of 2024. The highest-priced newly turned yearlings were a $97,000 filly from the third crop of McKinzie, purchased by Lambholm, and a $95,000 colt from the second crop of Yaupon, purchased by Sea Warrior Stables. For hip-by-hip results, click here. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.