By Jessica Martini
The under-tack show for next week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June 2-Year-Olds Sale entered its second half Thursday with 12 juveniles sharing the fastest furlong time of :10 flat, while three horses shared the day's fastest quarter-mile time of :21 2/5.
Ocala Stud sent out a homebred filly by Uncaptured to work the quarter-mile in :21 2/5 during the first set Thursday. The bay is out of Brown Glaze (War Front) and is a full-sister to graded placed Bet On Mookie.
A colt by Blame (hip 687) consigned by Britton Peak also worked in :21 2/5 Thursday. The bay is out of stakes-placed Blithely (Exchange Rate), a half-sister to multiple graded winner Merry Meadow (Henny Hughes). GFM Bloodstock purchased the juvenile for $35,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton October sale.
Late in the session, a colt by Lord Nelson (hip 724) matched the :21 2/5 bullet time when working for GOP Racing Stable Corp. The juvenile is out of Cash is Queen (Unbridled's Song), a half-sister to graded winner Name Changer (Uncle Mo). Purchased for GOP Racing Stable for $25,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale, the bay RNA'd for $45,000 following a :10 flat work at the OBS March sale earlier this year.
The dozen :10 flat workers Thursday were:
- Hip 599, a colt by Tunwoo consigned by Nice and Easy Thoroughbreds. (video)
- Hip 606, a filly by Majestic City consigned by Golden Noguez (video)
- Hip 618, a colt by Connect consigned by Champions of the Future (video)
- Hip 624, a filly by Tapwrit consigned by Goldencents Thoroughbreds (video)
- Hip 652, a filly by Always Dreaming consigned by A Rebel Colt Consignment (video)
- Hip 655, a colt by Ride On Curlin consigned by Crystal Eclipse Stable (video)
- Hip 670, a filly by Munnings consigned by Top Line Sales, LLC, Agent XV (video)
- Hip 695, a colt by More Than Ready consigned by Kings Equine, agent for Spendthrift Farm (video)
- Hip 700, an Irish-bred colt by Caravaggio consigned by Top Line Sales LLC, Agent XVIII (video)
- Hip 706, a colt by First Samurai consigned by Marcial Galan, Agent I (video)
- Hip 713, a colt by Quality Road consigned by Centofanti Thoroughbreds, Agent II (video)
- Hip 715, a colt by West Coast consigned by GOP Racing Stable Corp. (video).
Two's a Crowd at OBS
There was a throwback moment during the under-tack show's final set Thursday when consignor Eddie Woods sent a pair of juveniles out to work a quarter-mile in company. Hip 722, a daughter of Khozan, completed the drill in :23 2/5, while her stablemate, hip 903, a son of Tiznow, went in :23 4/5.
“They were just really, really green,” Woods said of the decision to work the two in company. “They had only been put in the sale as an afterthought. They barely got there and they weren't ready to work on their own.”
Asked if he was satisfied with the end result, Woods said, “We are never satisfied. We always want better, but with what we started off with, we are more than pleased.”
Working horses in company at the sales was common practice in decades past, but Woods said it is now mostly a fallback position.
“It'll be a very infrequent occurrence,” he said. “Once upon a time, it was the thing to do when you could work horses in :23 and change, head and head, and get them sold. Now, nobody wants to buy a horse who finished last in a two-horse race.”
The under-tack show continues through Saturday with sessions beginning daily at 7:30 a.m. The June sale will be held next Tuesday through Thursday. Bidding commences each day at 10 a.m.
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