Ocala Breeders' Sales Company

5th-Ellis, $70,913, Msw, 7-7, 2yo, 1mT, 1:34.25, fm, 1/2 length. SING SING (c, 2, Tiz the Law--Galileo's Melody, by Galileo {Ire}), trying the turf and a mile for the first time, went wire-to-wire to graduate by a half-length at Ellis Park Sunday. The bay broke on top from the rail and took the field through fractions of :23.24 and :46.31. He opened up a clear lead at midstretch and held off the late-charging Giocoso (Not This Time) to become the third winner for GI Belmont Stakes victor Tiz the Law...

1st-BAQ, $90K, Msw, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, 1:05 p.m. ET Hit the Bid Racing Stable and Morplay Racing's ITALIAN SOIREE (Uncle Mo), a $600,000 purchase following a :10 flat work at the OBS March sale, makes her racetrack debut for trainer John Terranova in this holiday card opener in New York. The filly, bred by Repole Stable, is a full-sister to stakes winner Be Better and out of a half-sister to graded winner Old Time Hockey (Smarty Jones). The Repole Stable colors will be carried by debuting Yellow (Bernardini), a...

OCALA, FL - The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training got a late boost from its supplemental section when a colt by Uncle Mo brought the top price of $375,000 during Friday's final session of the three-day auction. The 2024 June sale concluded with numbers just a tick off the sale's 2023 renewal. A total of 582 2-year-olds grossed $21,386,800 during the three-day auction, with the average of $36,747 down 2.2% from last year's figure and the median held at $20,000. Ramon Morales purchased Friday's session...

The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training begins its three-day run Wednesday in Central Florida, with bidding slated to begin at 10 a.m. During last week's six-session under-tack preview of the auction, 11 horses tied for the fastest furlong time of :9 4/5, while a pair of fillies from Tom McCrocklin's consignment shared the fastest quarter-mile time of :20 2/5. "There were plenty of people up there clocking on the turn," consignor Lane Richardson said of the interest level ahead of the three-day June sale. "I...

Three colts and one filly shared the furlong bullet time of :9 4/5 during the final session of the under-tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training Sunday. The quartet all took to track within the first half-hour of the session, with a colt by Tapiture (hip 993) getting the day started with his bullet work for Navas Equine. The colt is out of Union Queen (Union Rags) and his third dam, Above Perfection (In Excess {Ire}), produced GI Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming....

A filly by Twirling Candy (hip 509), a full-sister to GI Preakness S. winner Rombauer, equaled the fastest quarter-mile work of the week when covering the distance in :20 2/5 during the third session of the under-tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training Thursday in Central Florida. Consigned by Tom McCrocklin, who also consigns the Tiz the Law filly who set the :20 2/5 mark Wednesday, the bay was purchased by Mustang Farm for $140,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton October sale. She RNA'd...

Consignor Tom McCrocklin had already sold the sale-topping daughter of Tiz the Law at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring sale when he decided to purchase another daughter of the GI Belmont S. winner after watching her fail to meet her reserve at that same auction two months ago. The filly (hip 187) went a ways in proving it was a wise decision when she worked a quarter-mile in a bullet :20 2/5 during Wednesday's second session of the under-tack show for next week's OBS June Sale of 2-Year-Olds in...

The six-session under-tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training kicked off Tuesday morning with juveniles by Bucchero and West Coast sharing the quarter-mile bullet time of :20 3/5, while fillies by Frosted and Munnings shared the day's fastest furlong time of :9 4/5. A colt by West Coast (hip 16) got the under-tack show off to a quick start with a quarter-mile breeze in :20 3/5 just minutes into the day's session. Consigned by Omar Ramirez Bloodstock, the bay is out of multiple...

The under-tack show for next week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training begins Tuesday morning and continues through Sunday. All six sessions begin at 7:30 a.m. During Tuesday's first session of the under-tack show, hips 1 through 175 are scheduled to breeze, followed Wednesday by hips 176-350; on Thursday by hips 351-525; on Friday by hips 526-700; on Saturday by hips 701-875; and on Sunday by hips 876-1027. Horses of racing age, hips 1101-1115, will also breeze Sunday. The June sale will be held Wednesday, June...

With 48 horses already added to the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June 2-Year-Olds in Training and Horses of Racing Age Sale, the supplemental catalogue is now available. The supplements include 47 2-year-olds and one horse of racing age. Sires represented among the supplemented entries are first-year stallions Complexity, Game Winner, Instagrand, Global Campaign, Spun to Run, Vekoma, and Volatile. Veteran sires include Bernardini, Blame, Classic Empire, Constitution, Dialed In, Goldencents, Liam's Map, Maclean's Music, Maximus Mischief, More Than Ready, Munnings, Nyquist, Uncle Mo, and Vino Rosso. The sale will take...

The X-Rays Files series, now in its second year and presented in cooperation with the Consignors and Breeders' Association, uses conversations with buyers and sellers to contribute to the discussion on the sales and training process. Nick de Meric and his wife Jaqui have become stalwarts of the pinhooking scene in Ocala over the last four decades and their program has produced success after success both in the sales ring and on the racetrack. Among the graduates of the family's program are Horse of the Year Knicks Go and champion...

A filly by Tiz the Law (hip 365) brought a final bid of $1.9 million from bloodstock agent Donato Lanni acting on behalf of Michael Lund Petersen. Consigned by Tom McCrocklin, the filly had worked a quarter-mile last week in :20 1/5. She is out of Moonlight Sky (Sky Mesa), a half-sister to champion Abel Tasman. McCrocklin purchased the bay for $170,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale.