Two NY-bred juveniles go to Rice for $200,000+ in closing session of OBS April

[1]by Sarah Mace

Led by another standout Freud filly, two more New York-bred juveniles brought over $200,000 in Thursday’s closing session of the OBS 2-year-olds in training sale, both purchased by trainer Linda Rice, agent.

Hip 928[2] by Freud[3] (Sequel Stallions New York[4]) was purchased for $230,000 by Rice from the consignment of Dean’s List on behalf of Lady Sheila Stable Two, LLC. Lady Sheila Stable campaigns La Verdad (Yes It’s True), the Rice-trainee who captured the Grade 2 Distaff last weekend at Aqueduct.

Bred in partnership by Hidden Lake Farm LLC, Andrew Sole and Fred Rosen and foaled at Hidden Lake Farm in Otisville, the filly sold as a yearling to Western Guidelines for $60,000 at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale.  She breezed an eighth of a mile in :09 4/5 on the final day of the under tack show, the co-second-fastest work of day at the distance.

Out of the winning Kentucky-bred Unbridled’s Song mare All of Me, the filly has three winning siblings from three to race, including two other registered New York-breds. Her second dam Bold and Gorgeous is a stakes winner, as is her third dam Just Gorgeous. The filly’s $230,000 price-tag made her the third top-selling New York-bred in the sale overall.

A second closing-day standout, also the top New York-bred colt overall and fourth top-priced New York-bred, was Hip 1044[5] by Spring At Last. Bred by JND Stables, James Taylor, Deborah Bolstad and Fox Ridge Farm, Inc. and foaled at Silvernails Farm in Pine Plains, the bay colt brought $210,000 after breezing a furlong in :10 flat.

Hip 1044 was hammered down twice before at public auction, bringing $37,000 as a weanling at the inaugural Fasig-Tipton Fall Mixed sale in Saratoga Springs in October 2012, and going to Ciaran Dunne, his consignor at OBS, for $80,000 at the OBS August yearling sale in 2013.

Out of Cercis, a placed daughter of Forty Niner, the colt has six winning siblings, topped by Botarate (Fly So Free) a multiple graded stakes performer in Peru. A half-sister is a stakes producer and his second dam is a stakes winner.

In the context of a sale that set new records for gross, average, and median for the second straight year, the performance of New York-breds was extremely solid. After four sessions the overall average price at OBS was $74,357 (up 24 percent over last year’s record $59,825), while the median figure was $47,000 (34 percent above the previous record $35,000 set in 2013). The buyback percentage was 18 percent, (up from 14 percent a year ago).

In the New York-bred population, 100 of 127 juveniles sold successfully for a 21 percent buy-back rate, slightly higher than the sale as a whole. The $65,400 average price for a New York-bred did not quite keep pace with the overall average, but the New York-bred median of $50,000 outperformed the general sale.

Eighteen New York-breds sold for six figures. Four brought $200,000 or more, of which three were fillies. The top Empire-bred was an Indian Charlie filly bred by Milfer Farm, Inc., who went to Gary Contessa, agent for Wounded Warrior Stables for $390,000[6] (thirteen top-seller overall).

Two fillies by Freud topped the New York-sired offerings: Hip 928, the third highest-priced New York-bred, who sold in session four (above) and Hip 736 the fifth highest-priced New York-bred who sold in session three[7]. A Kentucky-bred colt by Bob and John[8] (Hip 640[9]), who currently stands at Saratoga Stud LLC[10] in Stillwater, sold for $210,000.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2014/04/25/obs-april-14-sale-wrap/

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