by Sarah Mace
A chestnut filly by Kantharos named Ancient Secret (Hip 277), who posted a sharp quarter-mile work in 21 1/5 last Tuesday, emerged as the top New York-bred seller in the opening session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s Spring sale of 2-year-olds in training. Steven W. Young, Agent made the winning bid of $225,000, which also made Ancient Secret the fifth top seller of the session overall, and second best-selling filly.
Bred by Lambholm, foaled at Cedar Ridge Farm in Pine Plains and consigned by de Meric Sales, Agent, Ancient Secret is the first registered New York-bred out of Privacy, a winning Florida-bred mare by Notebook also bred by Lambholm. Privacy is a half-sister to stakes winner Admonition and the filly’s third dam is Funistrada, winner of the Grade 2 Fall Highweight Handicap in 1986. Florida-based sire Kantharos, whose first foals are 3-year-olds of 2015, has one stakes winner and seven stakes performers.
Two more Empire-bred fillies brought six figures, one via a private sale. Hip 202 a grey/roan daughter of Jump Start bred by Burning Sands Stable, LLC, foaled at Rockridge Stud in Hudson and consigned by King’s Equine, Agent, went to conditioner Linda Rice, Agent for $180,000. The filly turned heads last Tuesday when she turned a 10 flat co-bullet breeze for Raul Reyes’ Kings Equine, who purchased her at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall sale for just $32,000 from the consignment of Four Star Sales. Out of multiple stakes winner Office Miss, by Silver Ghost, who was bred in New York by Howard Nolan, the filly is from the female family of Grade 1 winners Artie Schiller, Hidden Light and 1987 Horse of the Year Ferdinand. The filly has four winning siblings.
Hip 56, a chestnut daughter of Scat Daddy, who clocked an eighth of a mile in 10 1/5 seconds, changed hands for $160,000 by private sale, going from Cary Frommer, Agent, to Narvick International. Bred by RFHF Mares Rule, foaled at Rhapsody Farm in Plymouth and purchased by Frommer last summer for $85,000 at the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred sale, the filly issues from the family of graded winner Soldat. Her dam, Ontario-bred multiple winner and multiple stakes performer Lightning Pace by Regal Classic, has produced three winners including the multiple stakes placed earner of $236,128 Fighting Hussar (Rockport Harbor).
The top New York-bred colt in Tuesday’s opening session sold for $100,000: Hip 220 by Curlin out of Our Perfect Ten (Medaglia d’Oro). Bred by Twin Creeks Farm, foaled at Sequel Stallions NY in Hudson and consigned by Mayberry Farm, Agent, he sold previously as a Fasig-Tipton Kentucky yearling for $97,000. His young dam, none of whose foals are racing age, is out of a sister to multiple Grade 2 winner Elaborate.
Overall 15 New York-breds sold in the sale’s first session out of 22 offered, and brought an average price of $66,933 and a median price of $55,000, both numbers outperforming the overall session average of $59,158 and median of $42,000.
The sale resumes Wednesday 10:30 a.m., with the second of four days of trading.
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