Steady average, improved median at first session of OBS June sale

A filly from the first crop of Bolt d'Oro sold for $290,000 as the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s June sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age opened on Tuesday with a relatively steady average and an improved median.

OBS reported that 184 juveniles grossed $7,107,500 in Tuesday's first of three sessions. In the 2021 opening session, 196 horses sold for a total of $7,756,400.

The average was $38,628, dipping just 2 percent compared with $39,573 in last year's opening session. The median did rise 28 percent, to $25,500 compared to $20,000.

The buyback rate was the blight on the rose, finishing at 33 percent after checking in at 18 percent in last year's opening session.

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The session-topping Bolt d'Oro filly, who was purchased by Greg and Caroline Bentley, continued a strong run commercially this season for her Grade 1-winning sire, who already has three first-crop winners this spring.

This filly, who was consigned by Niall Brennan Stables, as agent, worked a furlong in 10 seconds flat on the Ocala Training Center's all-weather Safetrack during last week's preview show, placing her among the large group of juveniles tied for the second-fastest time of the show.

The filly is out of the stakes-winning Thunder Gulch mare Over the Edge, dam of five winners from six starters. Those include Grade 2-placed Top of Mind and stakes-placed Stormy Holiday. Over the Edge is a half-sister to stakes producer In Kelly's Defense, and Grade 3 winner Mr. Jester and multiple Grade 1-placed Future Pretense appear on the catalog page.

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