Record Tapit Colt Tops First Day of OBS March
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ftboa.com • Thursday • March 14, 2019 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION Record Tapit Colt Tops In This Issue: Baffert Sending Game Winner, First Day of OBS March Improbable to Oaklawn’s Rebel FTBOA Names 2018 Champions BY BROCK SHERIDAN ________ Imprimis Returns to Win Silks Run Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company started the 2019 season of juvenile Florida-bred Filly by The Big Beast sales with a bang Tuesday with a Tops Early Selling at OBS March record-selling colt during the first day of their prestigious March Sale FTBOA Awards Gala Pictorial of Two Year Olds in Training. Gross sales went up as 144 head Gulfstream Park Charts generated $22,134,00 in gross sales compared to the first day of the Tampa Bay Downs Charts 2018 March Sale when 129 horses Florida Stallion Progeny List sold for $20,327,000. The average price dipped slightly from $157,575 Florida Breeders’ List a year ago to $153,708, a 2.1 per- cent drop. The median price fell Wire to Wire Business Place 12.1 percent from $95,000 a year ago to $83,500 Tuesday. Lanes End Bloodstock as an Featured Advertisers agent for West Point, Masiello, and Ocala Stud Siena Farm was the leading buyer Pleasant Acres Stallions having purchased the day’s top sell- er for $2 million. Sequel Bloodstock Get Away Farm was the leading consignor after sell- Double Diamond Farm ing six head for $2,765,000. Bridlewood Farm Hip 33 topped all juveniles with Teneri Farms Inc a price tag of $2 million paid by Bucchero Stallion LLC Lanes End Bloodstock as an agent for West Point, Masiello and Siena Florida Department of Agriculture Farm. Consigned by Sequel FTBOA Bloodstock, agent for Chester and Covert Appraisal Mary Broman, the gray or roan colt Florida Thoroughbred Farm Mgrs is by the very popular leading sire Seminole Feed Tapit, out of the Grade 1-stakes- winning mare Artemis Agrotera, by Showcase Properties Roman Ruler. The second dam, Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply OBS Journeyman Stud See on page 3 Hip No. 33/JOE DIORIO PHOTO Back to Top Page 3 OBS COVER Justin Philip out of Cersei, by Malibu Hip 134 brought $425,000 on a final Continued from Moon was purchased by KSI, Ben bid by Lauren Carlisle as an agent. The bay Indy Glory, is a Grade 2 winner, stakes- McElroy as an agent after working in :9 4/5 filly is from the first crop sire Wicked producer and is a full-sister to millionaire at the under tack program. Cersei is out of Strong out of Diva Girl, by Saint Ballado, Stephen Got Even and stakes-winner the Grade 1-winning and stakes-producing making her a half-sister to stakes-placed Grand Merger. He worked an eighth-mile mare Oh What A Windfall, who is also a Petecarol. She was consigned by Mayberry in :10 1/5 at the under tack program con- full-sister to Heavenly Prize. Farm as an agent and worked an eighth in ducted last week. Also pushing the bids to $550,000 was :9 4/5. The $2 million price tag eclipsed the Hip 102 from the consignment of Eddie Also bringing $425,000 was Hip 206, a old OBS March Sale record of $1.8 million Woods as an agent. The bay colt is by Into bay filly from the consignment of Sequel paid by Stonestreet Stables for a son of Mischief out of the stakes-placed mare Bloodstock as an agent for Chester and Smart Strike in the 2013 OBS March Sale. Corderosa, by Aldebaran. Purchased by Mary Broman. She is by Uncle Mo out of Another millionaire juvenile passed Spendthrift Farm LLC, the colt is also a the stakes-winning mare Hard to Stay through the ring in Hip 194, consigned by half-brother to stakes-placed Orecchiette Notgo, by More Than Ready and John C. Hoby and Layna Kight as an agent. The dark and worked a quarter-mile in :21 1/5. Kimmel as an agent signed the sales ticket. bay or brown colt is by Pioneerof the Nile Lighting up the money board at $525,000 She worked an eighth in :9 4/5. out of stakes-placed and stakes-producing was Hip 24, a daughter of second-crop sire Hip 155 left the ring after Dominic mare Golden Artimis, by Malibu Moon. She No Nay Never out of Anestasia, by Anabaa. Brennan as an agent for Highland Yard is also a half-sister to Grade 1-winner My Anestasia is a full-sister to the Grade 3-win- LLC went to $400,000 to purchase the bay Conquestadory and stakes-placed Saharan ner Amonita (GB) and a half-sister to Cox filly. Consigned by Boutte Sales as an and OXO Equine LLC outlasted all bidders Orange, a Group 3 winner in France. She agent, she is by Lemon Drop Kid out of for the purchase price of $1.2 million. She was consigned by Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree Ever So Pretty, by Stormy Atlantic. Ever worked a quarter-mile in :21 1/5. Stables Inc. and Jonathan Thomas signed the So Pretty is also a full-sister to stakes-win- Selling as Hip 240 was a dark bay or ticket as an agent. She worked in :9 4/5 at the ners Stormello and My Best Brother and brown colt that garnered $825,000 from breeze show. she worked a quarter-mile in :21 flat. Phoenix Thoroughbred (III) Ltd. He is a son of Bernardini out of the Grade 2-win- ning mare Inish Glora, by Regal Classic and was consigned by King’s Equine as an BARN CREW – FULL AND PART TIME AVAILABLE agent. The dark bay or brown colt is also a half-brother to stakes-wnner Roan Inish, BOTH LOCATIONS: OCALA & SUMMERFIELD stakes-placed In Equality and stakes-pro- ducer Ardara. He worked an eighth-mile in We have an immediate opening for an enthusiastic, :9 4.5. hard-working team player to join our Barn Crew. This position is Katsumi Yoshida got the final bid of instrumental in ensuring the cleanliness of the barns and sup- $675,000 on Hip 147, a dark bay or brown filly by Candy Ride (Arg) out of Eltimaas, porting a healthy environment for our patients. Apply in person by Ghostzapper. The filly is a half-sister to or call 1-352-237-6151, ext. 223 for more details. EOE/DFWP Grade 1 winner Drefong and she was con- signed by Top Line Sales LLC as an agent. She worked an eighth in :10 flat. Hip 92 left the ring with a $650,000 price tag from the consignment of Niall Brennan Stables as an agent. By Speightstown out of the Grade 3-placed Mizzen Mast mare C J’s Leelee, the chest- nut filly is a half-sister to stakes-placed C J’s Awesome. Narvick International-HRH Prince Sultan bin Mishal al Saud bought her after she worked and eighth in :10 flat. Bringing $600,000 on a final bid from Narvick International-HRH Prince Sultan bin Mishal al Saud was Hip 169, a chestnut filly by American Pharoah out of the stakes-winning mare Flattermewithroses, by Flatter. Consigned by de Meric Sales as an agent, she worked a quarter-mile in :20 4/5 at the under tack show. Bringing $550,00 was Hip 81, a dark bay or brown colt consigned by Hoppel’s Horse and Cattle Company Inc., as an agent. The son of Grade 1-winning sire Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Baffert Sending Game Winner, Improbable to Oaklawn’s Rebel BY OAKLAWN PRESS OFFICE ______ HOT SPRINGS, ARK—Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has won the Rebel Stakes (Grade 2) a record six times, all since 2010. Baffert will have a chance to add to that total with unbeaten champion Game Winner and unbeaten Improbable ticketed for the $1 million Rebel to be run Saturday at Oaklawn, the final major local prep for the $1 million Arkansas Derby (G1) April 13. Baffert gave both horses the green light for the mile-and-one-sixteenth Rebel after workouts Sunday morning at Los Alamitos in suburban Los Angeles. Improbable cov- ered five furlongs in :59.40. Game Winner went the same distance in :59.80. “We’re coming,” Baffert said. “They worked well. Everything’s good. There’s no changing between now and then.” Game Winner, who has won all four of his races, clinched an Eclipse Award for champion 2-year-old male in his last start, Improbable/BENOIT PHOTO the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) hate to ship twice. It changes things a little Long Range Toddy ran in Oaklawn’s Nov. 2 at Churchill Downs. The son of bit, but right now we’re going through a lit- first two Kentucky Derby points races, fin- Candy Ride is owned by Gary and Mary tle crisis here in Southern California. We ishing second in the $150,000 Smarty West, who won the 1993 Arkansas Derby never dreamed the day would come they Jones Stakes Jan. 25 and third in the with 108-1 shot Rockamundo. Improbable, would close down Santa Anita, but we’re $500,000 Southwest Stakes (G3) Feb. 18. who is undefeated in three starts, hasn’t getting through it. The main thing is that Long Range Toddy worked a half-mile started since the $300,000 Los Alamitos the 3-year-olds, they worked well. They’re over a fast track in :53 Sunday morning Futurity (G1) Dec.