Eight juveniles tied for the fastest time for an eighth of a mile Sunday during the under-tack show for the Equine Sales Co. of Louisiana sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age, each hitting the mark in 10 1/5 seconds.
The average cost at public auction for a Kentucky Derby contender in this year’s field was $274,043. Of the 24 horses still publicly in Derby contention through Monday, 16 of them changed hands at public auction a combined 22 times. Six of the hopefuls are campaigned as homebreds, and one horse, Santa Anita Derby winner Gormley, was acquired through a private purchase.
It wouldn’t be hyperbole to call this year’s Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s spring 2-year-olds in training sale the best renewal on record, particularly because of all the records that fell.
Thursday’s penultimate session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. spring sale of 2-year-olds in training carried on the bustling pace of the previous two days, topped by an OBS-record $2.45 million Tiznow colt and a pair of $1 million juveniles backing him up.
The second day of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s spring 2-year-olds in training sale Wednesday kept up the positive energy set in Tuesday’s opening session, with comparative gains in gross and average, and a Medaglia d’Oro colt assuming the sale’s new top price at $850,000.
The second annual Hastings paddock sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age will take place following the last race Sunday.
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. spring 2-year-olds in training sale came into this year’s edition with plenty of momentum on its side and lived up to expectations Tuesday, with an opening session that showed gains across the board and was led by a $685,000 colt from the first crop of Orb.
It was crowded at the top during the final session of the under-tack show for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. spring sale of 2-year-olds in training on Saturday, with 13 horses tying for the fastest time for an eighth of a mile in 10 seconds flat.
The catalog for the Barretts May sale of 2-year-olds in training is now online, with 70 horses on offer.
An Into Mischief colt took the spotlight during Friday’s session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. 2-year-olds in training sale’s under-tack show, breezing a quarter-mile in 20 3/5 seconds.
