under tack show

The five-day under-tack preview of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale begins Tuesday morning at 7:30 a.m. Hips one through 196 are scheduled to work Tuesday, followed by hips 197 through 302 and supplemental lots 303 through 327 and 351 through 416 on Wednesday; hips 417 through 612 on Thursday; hips 613 through 652 and supplemental lots 653 through 671 and 701 through 837 on Friday; and hips 838 through 1002 and supplemental lots 1003 through 1028, as well as horses of racing age hips 1051...

Ocala Breeders' Sales Company has catalogued 909 horses before supplements for its 2026 June 2-Year-Olds in Training & Horses of Racing Age Sale, which will be held over three days June 16-18 in Ocala, Florida. The catalogue is now available online here. Sale sessions will begin daily at 10:30 a.m. Hips 1 - 302 plus supplements will sell June 16 with Hips 351 - 652 plus supplements going on June 17. The June 18 session will offer Hips 701 - 1002 plus supplements along with Horses for Racing Age Hips...

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....

A filly by Nyquist and colt by Yaupon realized the co-fastest eighth in :9 3/5 on Day 2 of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's March 2-year-old in Training Sale's under-tack show on Thursday. Offered as Hip 391, the day's fastest-working colt is out of unraced Stand Back (Giant's Causeway), the dam of Grade II winner Step Forward (Speightstown). The Florida-bred hails from the family of Grade I winners Cavorting (Bernardini) and Clairiere (Curlin). He is consigned by Raul and Martha Reyes' Kings Equine. "I expected something good, but we never...

The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company has implemented additional control measures for its under-tack shows in 2026, the company announced Tuesday. In a press release, OBS states the measures "further enhance existing standards that prioritize the well-being of horses and riders." Beginning with the under-tack show for the March Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training, use of the riding crop will be restricted to where the rider will not be permitted to strike the horse with their hands off the reins before, during or after the breeze. Also starting this year, all...

Ocala Breeders' Sales Company has catalogued 816 horses for its 2026 March Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training, which will be held over three days March 10-12, the auction company said via a Tuesday press release. Sessions will begin at 11 a.m. ET each day. Hips 1-272 will sell Mar. 10 with Hips 273-544 going Mar. 11 and 545-816 selling Mar. 12. The under-tack show will run from Mar. 4-7 starting at 8 a.m. ET each day. Hips 1-204 are slated for Mar. 4 followed by Hips 205-408 Mar. 5, Hips...

1st-SAR, $100K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 12:05 p.m. ET. On closing day at the Spa, EPIC QUEST (Nyquist) makes his first start after clocking a 10 flat during the OBS under tack show--according to Alan Carasso's 'Summer Breezes'--then going to Epic Horses for a cool million at the March auction. The Todd Pletcher trainee is out of unraced Alottalute (Midnight Lute), who claims multiple stakes winners Street Lute (Street Magician) and Alottahope (Editorial). The first-time starter's extended female family includes $1.2-million earner Texcess (Excess {Ire}). Also set to debut is Fasig-Tipton...

1st-SAR, $100K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 12:35 p.m. ET. With the third highest return at the 2025 OBS Spring Sale, TAGERMEEN (Into Mischief) was taken home for $1.4-million by Mahmud Mouni after the colt fired a :9 4/5 during the under-tack show. Sent to Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen, the debuting bay is out of Silk Route (Empire Maker), who Mouni acquired for a mere $10,000 at the 2024 Keeneland November Sale. Tagermeen's extended female family includes GIII Lecomte Stakes hero Call Me Midnight (Midnight Lute) and French Group 1...

Following severe weather Friday evening in Timonium, Maryland, Fasig-Tipton has adjusted the format of Sunday's final session of its Midlantic May Two-Year-Olds in Training under tack show as all horses will now gallop only and there will be no timed breezes, the auction company said in a press release Saturday. "The severe thunderstorms that moved through here last night dropped torrential rains in a very short amount of time," said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. "In light of these conditions, we feel that the responsible course of action is for horses...

TIMONIUM, MD - The under-tack show for the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, delayed a day and an hour by rain storms, opened under gray skies and an intermittent drizzle Wednesday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds as seven juveniles splashed down the lane in co-fastest :10 1/5 furlong breezes. First to hit the :10 1/5 time was a colt by Tiz the Law (hip 189), who worked early in the second of the day's seven sets. Consigned by Wavertree Stables, the bay is out of stakes-placed Janis's Joy...

The under-tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training begins Sunday morning and continues through Saturday with sessions beginning each day at 8 a.m. Hips one through 173 are scheduled to breeze Sunday, followed by hips 174 through 346 on Monday; hips 347 through 519 on Tuesday; hips 520 through 691 on Wednesday; hips 692 through 863 on Thursday; hips 864 through 1035 on Friday; and hips 1036 through 1207 on Saturday. The four-day OBS Spring sale will be held Apr. 15 through 18...

With heavy rain and wind expected in the area Wednesday, the under-tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training has been condensed to three days and will commence Thursday morning at 8 .m. The show had originally been scheduled to begin Wednesday and was expected to be held over four days. Under the new schedule, hips one through 272 will breeze Thursday; hips 273 through 544 Friday; and hips 545 through 814 Saturday. Each session will begin at 8 a.m. The OBS March sale...