Oak Ridge Training Center

'A Passion for Horses': Sanchez Father and Son Hope for OBS April Redux

Leonardo and Jhonardo Sanchez lived out the pinhooking dream last spring when selling a filly by Tiz the Law--purchased for $70,000 the previous fall--for $1.05 million at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's April 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. The dream only got sweeter when the filly, Dandona, won the GIII Florida Oaks in the colors of Tagermeen Racing early last month. The father-son team behind Laureles Racing will hope to repeat the success at this year's OBS April sale when they offer a daughter of Tapit (hip 384) through the Kings...

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Scanlons Take Over Eddie Woods Training Center

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY -  David Scanlon and his wife Blair King, who have been leasing at the Oak Ridge Training Center in Morriston, have found a new home for their growing business with the purchase of the 240-acre training center in Ocala formerly owned by legendary horseman Eddie Woods and his wife Angela. "It was one of those things that we felt like it was meant to be," Scanlon said Tuesday morning at the Fasig-Tipton sales grounds. "We had actually been in the market for a little bit, looking around....

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'Wow:' $1.45-Million Gun Runner Leads Million-Dollar Parade At OBS Wednesday

by Jessica Martini & Stefanie Grimm OCALA, FL - It was mid-morning Wednesday when Kerri Radcliffe made the first seven-figure purchase of the day, going to $1.05 million for a son of Nyquist, and, by the time the bloodstock agent made a session-topping bid of $1.45 million for a colt by Gun Runner just three hips from the end of the day, a total of six juveniles had sold for seven figures during the second session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training Wednesday. Through...

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