Wavertree Stables is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of selling one of its most noteworthy graduates at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s June sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age. Ciaran and Amy Dunne’s operation comes to this year’s OBS June sale with the usual good consignment, including a filly they bred in Florida. Wavertree, founded in 1995 in Ocala, has developed a reputation as a prominent breaking and training operation and 2-year-old consignor. At the 2014 OBS June sale, the Dunnes sold a Stormy Atlantic 2-year-old for a relatively modest $100,000 to Dennis O’Neill – although he would later change hands. Eclipse Award champion turf male Stormy Liberal went on to win eight stakes, highlighted by the 2017 and 2018 editions of the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, and earned more than $2.2 million. Stormy Liberal, along with Grade 1 winners Adare Manor, Medina Spirit, and War Like Goddess, is among the standout graduates of the OBS June sale, which takes place over three sessions this Wednesday through Friday. Including supplemental entries as of Sunday, 1,042 horses had been cataloged for the sale. The vast majority, 1,027, are 2-year-olds. Wavertree’s 11-horse consignment, after outs through Sunday evening, includes one filly bred on the Florida farm. From the second crop of classic-placed Grade 1 winner Audible, she is out of the mare Street Smart, is a half-sister to two stakes winners, and is from the family of Grade 1 winner Centre Court. “We’ve just kind of fallen into the breeding part of it,” Ciaran Dunne told the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association. “It took us a while to establish the business and then, as we established the business, it started to take more equity in the horses we were selling and there would always be one or two that would get left over.” The Dunnes’ breeding operation has grown thanks to Leinster, a half-brother to Stormy Liberal. After he failed to meet his reserve in 2017 at a Maryland sale, the Dunnes kept a share in him to race in partnership, and he became a multiple graded stakes winner. The Dunnes supported him when he began his stud career in 2022 at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Florida. :: Get the Inside Track with the FREE DRF Morning Line Email Newsletter. Subscribe now.  “Leinster was very good to us,” Ciaran Dunne said. “With him in our breeding operation, it has just mushroomed, to say the least. Since the advent of Leinster, we’ve gone from probably having three to five mares to the 25 we have now.” The Wavertree-consigned juveniles will be competing for top dollar against a large catalog that includes another Florida-bred filly who dazzled at the under-tack preview. A filly from the first crop of Ocala Stud resident Win Win Win was among 11 juveniles who worked a furlong in 9 4/5 seconds on the Ocala Training Center’s all-weather Safetrack to tie for the bullet work at the under-tack preview. Consigned by Santa Fe Thoroughbreds, as agent, she provides another opportunity for Win Win Win to strike with his first crop. Winner of the Grade 1 Forego Stakes, Win Win Win was represented by the topper at the OBS March 2-year-olds in training sale, a $1.8 million filly. A diverse group topped the under-tack preview, as the 11 bullet workers were by 11 different sires. Along with Win Win Win, stallions represented, in alphabetical order, were newly minted Grade 1 sire Bucchero; Complexity, who leads this year’s freshman sire class; freshman Honest Mischief; Frosted; Triple Crown winner and standout young sire Justify; top-10 sire Munnings; Practical Joke; Tapiture; The Big Beast; and Vino Rosso, who was among last year’s leading freshmen. Two juveniles tied for the fastest quarter-mile time overall – a filly by classic performer and freshman sire Tiz the Law and a filly by classic sire Twirling Candy. Both breezed in 20 2/5 seconds. The Twirling Candy filly, consigned by Tom McCrocklin, as agent, is a full sister to 2021 Preakness winner Rombauer. European Horse of the Year Roaring Lion and Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner California Flag are among the other graded stakes winners on the catalog page. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.