A $175,000 Larrupin' filly out of Irish and Foxy was the session leader at 5:30 p.m. on day two of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s spring juvenile sale in Ocala, Fla.
Peter Karches signed for the filly, who came from the Halcyon Hammock Farm agency.
At Tuesday's first of four sessions, 186 lots sold for $4,528,000, well up from last year's $3,878,700 for 166 horses. Average was up from $23,366 to $24,344, and median climbed from $15,000 to $16,000 as buybacks fell from 27 percent to 25 percent.
The Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s spring 2-year-old sale got off to a rocky start Tuesday but quickly proved it was capable of turning out six-figure prices.
The first three horses in the ring at the auction failed to meet their reserve prices, but buyers warmed up soon afterward. As of 5 p.m. at the first of the auction's four sessions, bidders were rewarding horses who had showed speed with high offers.
The Tattersalls April 2-year-old sale in Newmarket, England, set two European price records and cruised to healthy gains across the board at its close Thursday evening.
The two-day auction produced a record 2-year-old colt when Americans Stuart and Anita Subotnick paid 260,000 guineas, or $428,610, for a son of Danehill and Silver Bubble. It also yielded a record filly when Fusao Sekiguchi offered 150,000 guineas, or $247,275, for a daughter of Sadler's Wells and Mountain Holly.
Bansha House Stables of Ireland sold the record colt, and Con Marnane consigned the top filly.
Archers Bay never got a chance to enjoy a long retirement from away the racetrack, and there will be only three crops of foals by the Canadian champion, who died following colic surgery last October.
The first group of Archers Bay foals will hit the racetrack in 2003, and a number of them will be racing for their sire's owners, Eugene and Laura Melnyk.
Mike Sherman's Farnsworth Farms has been a regular at the 2-year-old sales since 1965. With 60 juveniles cataloged for the annual Ocala Breeders' Sales spring sale of 2-year-olds in training, which runs Tuesday through Friday, Farnsworth has one of the biggest consignments.
Sherman said he used to sell his 2-year-olds earlier in the year, but that many of his juveniles just weren't ready to be put under the sale microscope.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Continental Red was having a wonderful career until he was named the California-bred horse of the year for 2002.
"As soon as he got that, he ran two clunkers," trainer Ian Jory said Friday.
A winner of 6 of 48 starts and $844,853, Continental Red will try to end that losing streak in the $150,000 Khaled Stakes over 1 1/8 miles on turf at Hollywood Park next Saturday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Americans Stuart and Anita Subotnick got the Tattersalls April 2-year-old auction off to a rousing start Monday when they paid a European record 260,000 guineas, about $428,610, for a Danehill colt.
The price shattered the record of 180,000 guineas, set last year at this sale.
The Danehill colt is out of the unraced Silver Hawk mare Silver Bubble, who herself is a full sister to multiple Grade 1 winner Hawkster. Silver Bubble has two winners to her credit: French winner Silver Solver and British victor Definate Spectacle.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Peace Rules won the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland and established himself as trainer Bobby Frankel's second contender for the Kentucky Derby. Although not by a Derby winner, as is race favorite Empire Maker, Peace Rules has numerous pedigree connections to the classic at Churchill Downs. His most intriguing connection to sports history comes through his sire, Jules, who is named for Jules Fink.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland's April 2-year-old sale produced a record gross and its second-highest average Tuesday, a sign that racehorse buyers are feeling confident about their chances to make money in purses.
The gross of $21,440,000 for 128 horses sold during the one-day sale breezed easily past 1999's previous record of $18,560,000 for 123 lots.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Wild Applause - dam of Grade 1 winner Eastern Echo and graded winners Yell, Blare of Trumpets, and Roar - died April 2 of foaling complications at 22.
The mare, who resided at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., died at the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, according to a report in the Thoroughbred Times on Tuesday.