OBS June opening session results mixed; Hard Spun colt brings $450K

A Hard Spun colt sold for $450,000 to top the opening session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s June sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age on Tuesday.

OBS reported that 193 horses sold for $7,190,400 on Tuesday, in the first of three sessions. That compared with 218 selling for a total of $7,506,000 at last year’s opening session.

The average price was $37,256, up 8 percent from $34,431 in 2022. The median price was $20,000 compared with $22,000 a year ago, a drop of 9 percent.

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The buyback rate was 27 percent in what has been a highly selective marketplace, up from 21 percent last year.

The session-topping Hard Spun colt was purchased by Frank Fletcher Racing from the consignment of de Meric Sales, as agent. The colt had breezed a furlong in 9 4/5 seconds during last week’s under-tack preview show on the Ocala Training Center’s all-weather Safetrack surface, placing him among a large group of juveniles tied for the second-fastest time overall.

The colt is out of the stakes-placed Belong to Me mare Mine All Mine. She is the dam of three winners from four starters, including stakes winner Athens Queen.

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