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FLORIDA’S DAILY SALES DIGEST • WEDNESDAY JANUARY 27 , 2021 Published by Florida Equine Communications Inc. SALE HEADLINES FTBOA.COM Practical Joke Colt Tops Consignor Preferred Session at OBS Winter Mixed Sale Horses of Racing Age supplements. consignor for the Consignor Preferred Session By BROCK SHERIDAN Ocala Breeders’ Sales conducted the first day The Preferred Session saw 96 head sell for selling five head for $265,000 while Summer - of their first auction of 2021 Tues - $1,869,300 compared to 85 lots generating field was second with 11 head generating day with the Consignor Preferred Session of $1,912,300 during the same session last year. $236,500. Jackman Bottom Trading Co. as an yearlings and broodmares that began at 10:30 The average dropped from $22,498 a year ago agent led all buyers during the first session tak - a.m. The Consignor Preferred Session was im - to $19,472 Tuesday and the median went from ing three head for $145,000. mediately followed by Consignor Preferred sup - $13,000 in 2020 to $10,000 this year. The top seller during the Consignor Pre - plements, a Horses of Racing Age Session and Stuart Morris was the leading ferred Session at $130,000 was Hip 182, a yearling colt by Practical Joke, whose first crop are 2-year-olds this year. Consigned by Francis and Barbara Vanlan - gendonck’s Summerfield and purchased by Ronald Clark Shepherd, the colt is out of Mobeautiful, by Uncle Mo. A Florida-bred yearling filly gave the sale momentum early Tuesday when Hip 25 sold for $95,000 to Democracy Bloodstock. The daugh - ter of Mendelssohn out of the stakes-placed mare Simply Confection, by (Arg) was consigned by Stuart Morris as an agent and is from the family of two-time champion and Breeders’ Cup Distaff (Grade 1)-winner Ashado and Hollywood Turf Cup (G1) winner Stephen. Simply Confection is also a half-sister to multiple graded stakes-producer ’s Verse. Another Florida-bred brought a final bid of $95,000 in Hip 117, who went to Windylea Farm O Hip 117, a Florida-bred, T – NY LLC. The yearling filly was consigned by O

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Tuesday’s session. O B I Grade 3 stakes- See on page 2 T OBS WWW.FTBOA.COM • WEDNESDAY JANUARY 27, 2021 • 2 www.facebook.com/thefloridahorse OBS from page 1 OBS Winter Mixed Sale placed mare Fortunia, by Leriodesanimaux (Brz). Fortunia is also a half-sister to Dionisia, a Group 1-winner in Italy; Diocleziano, who is a Tuesday’s Top Sellers *Denotes Florida-bred stake-winner in Italy; and stakes producers Hip# Pedigree Buyer Price Essie’s Link and Sarah Darling. 368 C. Bear Brian 2018 Kerri Raven $150,000 Hip 90 dropped the gavel at $67,000 from Summerfield (Francis & Barbara Vanlangendonck), Agent forStonestreet Stables LLC the C & S Thoroughbred Sales as an agent con - signment. The dark bay or brown yearling filly is 182 C. Practical Joke –Mobeautiful 2020 Ronald Clark Shepherd $130,000 by Hard Spun out of Cleo, by Pioneerof the Nile Summerfield (Francis & Barbara Vanlangendonck), Agent XVII and went to DKW Racing. Cleo is also a half-sis - 321 C. Polterer 2018 Danny W Brown $110,000 ter to Grade 3 Gardenia Stakes (G3) winner and Kaizen Sales (Richard Kent), Agent XV graded stakes-producer Prospective Saint. Pelican State Thoroughbred Sales as an 360 F. Pledge 2018 D. J. Stable LLC $100,000 agent consigned Hip 63, a bay yearling daugh - Six K's Training & Sales LLC, Agent ter of Twirling Candy that sold for $65,000 to Al *25 F. Mendelssohn –Simply Confection 2020 Democracy Bloodstock $95,000 and Bill Ulwelling. She is by the Tale of the Cat Stuart Morris, Agent VII mare American Beauty and is from the family of *117 F. Malibu Moon –Fortunia 2020 Windylea Farm - NY LLC $95,000 Grade 1 Central Bank -winner Kerri Szegi, Agent I and Grade 2 Sheepshead Bay Stakes-winner Rosalind. 315 C. Distorted Humor –Goldstryke Glory 2018 Kerri Raven $90,000 Hip 119, also consigned by Pelican State Oscar Brown Stables Thoroughbred Sales, went for $60,000 to August 289 C. Street Boss –Xs Belle 2018 Holly & David Wilson & Peernboom - Bower, LLC $85,000 West. By Practical Joke, whose first crop are 2- Kaizen Sales (Richard Kent), Agent XV year-olds this year, the dark bay or brown colt is out of Gaylo, by Gayego and is a half-sister to 307 G. Ghostzapper –First Waltz 2017 Al & Bill Ulwelling $85,000 Best Pal Stakes (G2)-winner Albert’s Hope. Kaizen Sales (Richard Kent), Agent XV Hip 147, a Florida-bred colt from the first Pick View as an agent for Paul W. Schaffer Super Saver. The bay colt was unraced as a 2- crop by sire Army Mule, went to Jack Bottom also went to $52,000 to acquire a yearling colt year-old and has one win in a maiden special Trading Co., as an agent for $60,000. Consigned from the first crop of stallion Army Mule that weight at Sam Houston on Jan. 9. In his only by Beth Bayer as an agent the colt is out of Lady sold as Hip 79. The bay colt was consigned by career start, Bear Brian earned $21,420. Halite, by Medaglia d’Oro. Baldwin Bloodstock LLC as an agent and is out The Horses of Racing Ages Session saw 73 Stuart Morris as an agent also consigned of Brown Eyes, by Halo’s Image and is a half- horses sell for $1,676,500 compared to last Hip 16, a yearling colt by Unified, whose first brother to Northern Spur Stakes-winner Bour - year when 70 head sold for $1,366,900. The av - foals will hit the track later this year as 2-year- bonize, by Tiz Wonderful. erage increased this year to $22,966 compared olds. The bay colt generated a final bid of The top seller during the Horses of Racing to $19,527 in 2020. The median price for the $55,000 from Pick View as an agent for Paul Age Session was Hip 368, who sold for Horses of Racing Ages Session went from W. Schaffer as the son of the Mineshaft mare $150,000 to Kerri Raven. Consigned by Francis $11,000 last year to $13,000 Tuesday. Rubicon, who is also a half-sister to stakes- and Barbara Vanlangendonck’s Summerfield, The Sale continues Wednesday with an Open winner La Concerto and stakes-placed, winner Bear Brian is a 3-year-old colt by Tiznow out of Session of yearlings and broodmares that starts Game Token. the stakes-winning mare Lil Super Bear, by again at 10:30 a.m. n WWW.FTBOA.COM • WEDNESDAY JANUARY 27, 2021 • 3 www.facebook.com/thefloridahorse Joy’s Rocket Going for Third Straight Stakes Win in Martha Washington The dark bay or brown daughter of Commis - Martha Washing with Will’s Secret for longtime By FBloRriOdaC-Kbr eSdH JEoRy’sID RAocN ket will attempt to win sioner out of And Stay Out, by Exchange Rate client Willis Horton Racing LLC. her third consecutive stakes Saturday when she comes into the Martha Washington off of a third- The daughter of Horton’s stallion Will Take is among six 3-year-old fillies in the $200,000 place finish behind winner Travel Column in the Charge will be trying to follow in the footsteps Martha Washington Stakes at Oaklawn Park. Grade 2 Golden Rod Stakes at Churchill Downs of her sire, who won several stakes at Oaklawn Trained by Steve Asmussen for Team Hanley going a mile-and-one-sixteenth on Nov. 28. including the 2013 Rebel Stakes (G3) and the and Parkland , Joy’s Rocket She became a black type winner two starts 2014 Oaklawn Handicap (G2). won the Letellier Memorial Stakes by a length- back when she won the $98,000 Rags to She will also be trying for her second con - and-a-half at Fair Grounds going six furlongs Riches Stakes going a mile-and-one-sixteenth secutive victory having defeated special weight on Dec. 19 and the $125,000 Songbird Stakes by three lengths at Keeneland in November at six-and-a-half furlongs. The one mile Martha Washington will be an increase in distance for Joy’s Rocket and her first around two turns. She has navigated the mile distance once before, however, when fourth to winner Dayoutoftheoffice in the Grade 1 at over their one turn mile. 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Asmussen purchased her out of the GOP Racing H Stable Corp. consignment for $47,000 at the at Churchill on Oct. 25. maidens by nearly three lengths at Fair Grounds Ocala Breeders’ Sales March Sale last year. Having won her first start against special going an off-the-turf mile-and-a-sixteenth on So far in six career starts, Joy’s Rocket has weight maidens and her second against second Dec. 20 in what was her fourth career start. earned $230,944 from four wins and a second. level allowance fillies by nearly 10 lengths, both Will’s Secret, who is out of the Giant’s Joy’s Rocket has drawn post one and Ri - at Indiana Grand, before winning the Golden Causeway mare Girls Secret, will break from cardo Santana Jr. has been given the mount. Rod, Coach is three-for-four with a third while post four with jockey Jon Court aboard. Her biggest challenge in the Martha Wash - earning $115,740. Also set for the Martha Washington are ington is expected to come from the Brad Cox- Coach and jockey Florent Geroux are set to Novel Squall for trainer John A. Ortiz, Lady Lilly, trained Coach, who races in the white and red start from post three. who will also be saddled by Asmussen, and Sil - colors of Keuber Racing LLC. Trainer Dallas Stewart will try to upset the via Q for trainer Philip Bauer. n Florida...the best state for Business OBS Sales State Economic Impact OBS Sales are the worldwide leader * for Two-Year-olds in training

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