OBS Spring Sale Restarts 2020 Juvenile Auction Season
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facebook.com/thefloridahorse FLORIDA’S DAILY SALES DIGEST • TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2020 Published by Florida Equine Communications Inc. SALE HEADLINES FTBOA.COM OBS Spring Sale Restarts 2020 Juvenile Auction Season sell Thursday and Hips 925-1231 and supple - BYT BhRe OOCcaKla S BHrEeeRdIeDrAs’N Sales Company will ments 1293-1315 will sell on Friday . conduct their annual Spring Sale of 2-year-olds For prospective buyers unable to attend the starting Tuesday which this year holds a special Spring Sale or unsure about traveling at this place on the thoroughbred auction calendar. time, OBS has again increased phone bid ca - Originally scheduled for April, the OBS pacity and created online bidding. Patrons must Spring Sale was postponed due to the COVID- register for online bidding at the OBS website. 19 pandemic, which also forced several other While OBS and the consignors have been juvenile sales to cancel or reschedule their ju - open for business this week, it has not been venile auctions scheduled for the spring. business as usual. Fasig-Tipton Company canceled several 2- “We are not shaking hands and we’ll have year-old auctions this year including the annual face masks on all of our people who are show - 2-year-old sale held at Gulfstream Park slated ing horses,” Journeyman Bloodstock’s Brent for April 1, the Midlantic Sale in May and their Fernung said. “We are trying to social distance Santa Anita juvenile sale scheduled for early as much as we can.” June. Keeneland canceled their 2-year-old sale Tom Fackler, who with his wife Lori Fackler which was set for April 7. consigns in the name of their Best A Luck LLC The reshuffled juvenile sale calendar now based in Reddick, Fla., also noted that they will has the OBS Spring Sale as the first thorough - be doing everything possible to keep his staff bred auction to take place in North America and potential buyers as safe as possible. since the pandemic shut down that began in “The main thing we are trying to do is keep March. our distance from others and wash our hands a OBS officials have cataloged 1,231 thor - lot,” Fackler said. “There is not a whole lot we oughbred juveniles for the Spring Sale which can do differently. These horses still need to be will now run four days, Tuesday through Friday, fed, exercised and taken care of.” June 9-12. OBS will also conduct a special sale Ciaran Dunne, who owns and operates Wa - O T O for 2-year-olds and horses of racing age July vertree, said his operation has not changed dra - H P Y D 14-17. The OBS Yearling Sale will be conducted matically because of the pandemic, but extra OBS Graduate Mitole A O Oct. 13-15. steps are being taken. C Hips 1-308 plus supplements 1233-1252 go “We’re not really doing a whole lot differ - sanitizers out and around the barn for the em - on the block Tuesday while Hips 309-616 and ent,” Dunne said at his barn at OBS. “If our em - ployees and potential buyers. We will also have supplements 1263-1272 will be offered Wednes - ployees want to wear facial masks, they can at a station for folks who do not want to fill out day,. Hips 617-924 and supplements 1273-1292 their own discretion. We’ll have special hand See OBS on page 2 WWW.FTBOA.COM • TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2020 • 2 www.facebook.com/thefloridahorse OBS graduate crowned Sprint champion, fol - Border Racing LLC after turning in an Under OBS from page 1 lowing Groovy (1987), Cherokee Run (1994), Tack quarter in :21.40. The son of Court Vision, their show card. We can fill it out for them. Not Surprising (1995), Lost in the Fog (2005), trained by Peter Eurton, also third in Santa “We like to think we run a pretty clean oper - Midnight Lute (2007), Kodiak Kowboy (2009) Anita’s American Pharoah (G1), has earned ation anyway,” Dunne continued. “Everything is and Trinniberg (2012). $1,235,451. disinfected on a regular basis. We don’t have a Bloom Racing Stable LLC, Madaket Stables Current information about OBS sales, con - lot of cross over in terms of employees either. LLC and Allen Racing LLC’s Midnight Bisou, the signors and graduates is now also available via We don’t shuttle people back and forth from the fourth OBS graduate to win the Eclipse Award as social media sites Facebook and Twitter. A link farm. Once they are here, they stay here.” champion older dirt female, joined Jewel Princess on the homepage directs users to either site. Just as OBS did during their March Sale, (1996), Fleet Indian (2006) and Ginger Punch The catalog can be viewed via the OBS web - steps will be taken to assure the well-being of all (2007). Also trained by Steve Asmussen , she site at http://obssales.com . The website’s search - June Sale patrons including increased cleaning racked up seven graded able and sortable master schedules and protocols, doors not required to stakes wins in 2019, high - index provides links to be locked for security will remain open to elim - lighted by her victory over under tack videos, pedi - inate the need for patrons to use the handles, co-finalist Elate in gree and consignor in - and all OBS employees will be instructed to fol - Saratoga’ s Personal En - for mation as well as low sanitary procedures, to stay home if sick sign Stakes (G1) at pedigree updates occur - and help patrons have as safe and healthy visit Saratoga. She was pur - ring since the catalog to the sale as possible. chased by Jeffrey Bloom was printed. It has also The Spring Sale has grown into a major in - for $80,000 out of the been updated to allow ternational marketplace and become a shining Woodford Thoroughbreds shortlist creation. A link centerpiece of OBS’ three juvenile auctions. consignment at the 2017 to instructions for using By My Standards, winner of the recent Grade April Sale after working the new features can be 2 Oaklawn Handicap in May became the 40th an Under Tack eighth in found in the index header Spring Sale graduate to surpass the $1 million :10.20. The daughter of and a step by step tuto - dollar mark in earnings. Thirteen Spring Sale OBS graduate Midnight rial is available in the graduates are Eclipse Award winners, the latest Lute, who began 2020 index as well. the trio featured on the 2020 catalog covers. with a game second place Under Tack and sales William & Corinne Heiligbrodt’s Mitole finish in the $20-million results are available on earned the Eclipse Award as 2019’s champion Saudi Cup on Feb. 29, the OBS website. Under male sprinter winning six of seven starts in - has compiled a career Tack times and videos cluding the Churchill Downs Stakes (G1), Met - record of 12 wins from are posted shortly after O T ropolitan Handicap (G1), Vanderbilt Handicap 20 races and earned O the conclusion of each H P (G1) and Forego Stakes (G1). He wrapped up $7,250,000 to date. N set, and sale results are A D I the year and the championship with a victory in Exline-Border Racing R updated frequently dur - E H the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1). Consigned to LLC, David A. Bernsen, S ing each session. In ad - the 2017 Spring Sale by Grassroots Training & Susanna Wilson and Dan Hudock’s Storm the dition, the latest news regarding OBS Sales, the son of Eskendereya was sold for Court earned the title of champion 2-year-old graduates, sales schedules, nominations, $140,000 after an Under Tack eighth in :10 flat. male with a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juve - credit requests, travel information and other Trained to a title by Steve Asmussen, he goes to nile (G1). Consigned to the 2019 April Sale by news relevant to OBS consignors and cus - stud with a career record of 10 wins in 14 starts Woodside Ranch as an agent, he was purchased tomers is also available. E-mail should be ad - and earnings of $3,104,910.Mitole is the eighth for $60,000 by Marette Farrell, Agent for Exline- dressed to [email protected] . n Florida...the Best State for Business FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS’AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION Nicole “Nikki” Fried, Commissioner Lonny T. Powell, CEO and Executive Vice President For Information: Jacqueline Basha, Senior Business Development Director 801 SW 60th Ave. • Ocala, FL 34474 • 352-629-2160 (850) 617-7286 • [email protected] • www.FDACS.gov Fax: 352-629-3603 • www.ftboa.com • [email protected] WWW.FTBOA.COM • TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2020 • 3 www.facebook.com/thefloridahorse Under Tack Times Brought to you by FURY KAPCORI Tiznow – Gin Running by Go for Gin • KHOZAN Distorted Humor – Delta Princess, by A.P. 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