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OCALA, FL - The juvenile sales season, which set records at all its major 2026 stops, continued to churn out new highwater marks as it reached its conclusion with the end of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale Thursday. The three-day auction had its highest-priced offering ever when a filly by Justify sold for $1.4 million Wednesday and it concluded Thursday with its highest-ever gross and an average that just edged past last year's previous record figure, while the median tied last year's record mark. Through...

On a day when seven horses tied for the fastest furlong work, a filly by the late Uncle Mo (hip 220) stood out when she worked the quarter-mile bullet of :20 2/5 during Wednesday's second session of the under-tack preview of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Consigned by Tom McCrocklin, the juvenile is out of stakes-placed Corey (First Samurai), who is a half-sister to graded winner Happy Farm (Ghostzapper). Wednesday's work was the filly's second at OBS this spring. She worked a quarter-mile in :20...

by Jessica Martini & Stefanie Grimm OCALA, Fl - Following its third of four sessions Thursday, the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training needed just north of $14 million to secure its highest-ever gross. That amount was almost entirely secured Friday through the sale of one horse when Donato Lanni, bidding on behalf of Saudi businessman Amr Zedan, went to all-time high $10.5 million to acquire a colt by champion Flightline from the Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbred consignment. By the close of business Friday, the Spring sale had...

Cataloged as hip 1221 as part of the supplemental catalog for the OBS April Sale, a filly by Girvin--Soma (Curlin) was hammered down to Robert and Lawana Low for $1.6 million, in so doing becoming the last of seven horses to fetch $1 million or more over the course of the four-day auction in Central Florida. Bred in Kentucky by Jim and Donna Daniell, the Mar. 7 foal is out of an unplaced half-sister to GSW Celestial City (Uncle Mo) and was consigned to the sale by Top Line Sales,...

The final day of the under-tack preview show ahead of next week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training finished up with a trio of :9 3/5 marks, including one set by the very first horse to work. The filly (hip 1221), by Airdrie Stud's Girvin, was a $165,000 Keeneland September grad last year for CMT Rentals and is out of a Curlin half-sister to GSW Celestial City (Uncle Mo). Consigned by Top Line Sales, she counts GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner Cy Fair (Not...

Prancing Horse Farm LLC purchased a bay colt by Gun Runner for $90,000 to top the OBSOnline March "Second Chance" sale, a digital auction held March 27-31 for horses that were either unsold or breezed and scratched from the recently concluded OBS March Two-Year-Olds In-Training Sale. Ciaran Dunne's Wavertree Stables consigned the colt, who breezed in :10 3/5 during the March under-tack show, as Hip 507. The colt is out of the winning G3-placed Willow (Ire) (American Pharoah) , who is out of European champion Peeping Fawn (Danehill). The second-highest...

A pair of juveniles from the Top Line Sales consignment led the penultimate OBS March under-tack show session Friday with a Drain the Clock filly (hip 508) and a Golden Pal colt (hip 598) sharing the co-fastest furlong breeze in :9 3/5. Setting the mark first of the two, the day's fastest-working colt was one that Top Line's Jimbo Gladwell admitted they stretched on to acquire for $275,000 at the Fasig-Tipton New York Saratoga Select Yearling Sale last August. "He had size and a beautiful walk [at Saratoga]," Gladwell said....

What has been a competitive yearling sales season makes a two-day stop in Central Florida with the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's October Yearlings Sale to be held Tuesday and Wednesday in Ocala. A total of 507 horses, including 48 supplemental entries, have been catalogued for the sale, with Tuesday's opening session featuring hips one through 258 and Wednesday's session offering hips 301 through 551. Each session begins at noon. "We're all anticipating a good sale, and it looks like a lot of people are coming into town," said consignor Francis...

Some of the most highly anticipated races during the summer season are the 'baby' races during the boutique meetings at Saratoga and Del Mar and at Ellis Park, which attract its fair share of high-priced juveniles from a variety of top national outfits. Summer Breezes, sponsored by OBS Sales, highlights debuting and stakes-entered 2-year-olds at those meetings that have been sourced at the breeze-up sales earlier in the year, including links to their under-tack previews. Here are the horses entered for Independence Day at Saratoga and Ellis Park. Friday, July...

With the marathon Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training just hitting its 11-hour mark Tuesday, the auction had its fourth million-dollar juvenile when bloodstock agent Donato Lanni bid $1.05 million to acquire a colt by Violence (hip 544) on behalf of Amr Zedan. The chestnut, who galloped during Sunday's session of the under-tack preview, was consigned by Top Line Sales. A $280,000 purchase at Keeneland last September, he is out of A Taste of Red (Street Boss).

2nd-Churchill Downs, $108,750, Msw, 5-1, 2yo, 4 1/2f, :52.59, ft, 1 3/4 lengths. MERCILESANIHILATOR (c, 2, Audible--Gadabout, by Bodemeister) looked in all sorts of trouble heading for home, but got his second wind in the final furlong to give this owner, trainer and jockey Jareth Loveberry their second straight success in as many days with a debuting 2-year-old beneath the Twin Spires. Sassy C W (Yaupon) became a new 'TDN Rising Star' in the fillies' equivalent exactly 24 hours prior. Sent off at odds just shy of 6-5, the April...

by Jessica Martini & Stefanie Grimm OCALA, FL - A colt by Tapit brought the high price of $1 million during a day which featured lively trade at the top of the market at the opening session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training Tuesday in Central Florida. A total of 153 juveniles had sold by the end of Tuesday's session for a gross of $19,615,000. The average was $128,203 and the median was $60,000. During last year's opening session, 145 horses had sold by...