The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s spring 2-year-old sale continued to see gains at its second of four sessions Tuesday in Ocala, Fla.
The second session ended Tuesday evening with 197 juveniles sold for $8,731,500, an 18 percent increase over last year’s Day 2 total for 223 horses. Average and median also climbed. The $44,322 average price was 36 percent higher than last year, and the $30,000 median was up 50 percent. Buybacks fell from 2011’s figure of 20 percent to 19 percent.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – A flurry of prices above $200,000 early in the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s opening 2-year-old session Monday hinted at continuing strength in the upper middle market.
The session in Ocala, Fla., was the first of four days’s selling at the OBS spring juvenile auction. By 3 p.m. Monday, the sale was still underway and four horses had brought $200,000 or more, including the $400,000 session-leading Medaglia d’Oro filly.
Three juveniles breezed a furlong in 9.8 seconds Friday at the final under-tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's spring juvenile sale, set to run April 23-26 in Ocala, Fla.
The three were Hip No. 967, a Broken Vow-Runaway in Love colt; Hip No. 1171, an After Market-Travelator colt; and Hip No. 1194, a Wildcat Heir-Unrepentant filly.
The day's best time for a quarter-mile work was 20.6 seconds. That belonged to Hip No. 1000, a Put It Back-Seemein Seattle filly. No horses were clocked over three-eighths on Friday.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Acclamation, the California-bred honored with the Eclipse Award as the nation’s outstanding older male of 2011 begins his 2012 season in Friday’s $100,000 Inglewood Handicap at Hollywood Park.
For trainer Don Warren, the campaign cannot begin soon enough.
Warren was left anxious to see Acclamation in action after watching the 6-year-old work a mile on turf in 1:38.20 at Santa Anita on Thursday.
“The way he worked, the way he pulled up, and the way he recovered after the work was very pleasing,” Warren said. “He looked every bit as good as he did.”
Fasig-Tipton’s Midlantic 2-year-old sale, set for May 21-22 in Timonium, Md., has a 540-horse catalog, down from last year’s 600 juveniles.
Catalogs are available online at www.fasigtipton.com.
The under-tack shows will take place May 16-17 at 9:30 a.m., and the auction will begin at 10 a.m.each day.
A Shamardal colt from the family of champion Oratorio proved worth the wait Thursday when he sold for about $840,000 and topped the two-day Tattersalls Craven breeze-up sale in Newmarket, England.
Darley agent John Ferguson bought the sale-topper from Roger O'Callaghan's Tally-Ho Stud in Ireland. The chestnut 2-year-old colt is out of the Swain winner Balloura. The price was 500,000 guineas in the local auction currency.
LEXINGTON, Ky. − Bena Halecky, an executive with Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, got the call from Phil Needham on the afternoon of January 8, 2008. Needham was Halecky’s bicycling partner, but he also was her partner in a handful of Thoroughbred broodmares. Now he was calling from the Keeneland January sale, and he hoped Halecky would be interested in a Smart Strike mare he had bought − or, really, bought back from other partners − the previous afternoon.
