OBS sees Empire-bred Unbridled’s Song filly bring $300K in session three

by Sarah Mace

Thursday’s third session of the 2015 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s spring sale of 2-year-olds in training saw a third New York-bred hit the $300,000 mark when Hip 876[1], a grey/roan juvenile by Unbridled’s Song, became the sale’s new top-selling New York-bred filly. Trainer John C. Kimmel signed the ticket on behalf for Tobey L. Morton.

Bred by Gainesway Thoroughbreds LTD and foaled on April 14, 2013 at Edition Farm[2] in Hyde Park, Hip 876[1] posted a :10 2/5 eighth work last Friday for consignor SGV Thoroughbreds (Steven Venosa), Agent. As a yearling she was purchased by Douglas A. Arnold at the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred sale in Saratoga for $135,000.

The new filly topper is the first foal out of Church Camp, a young stakes-winning Kentucky-bred mare by Forest Camp. Purchased in foal by Gainesway at the 2012 Keeneland November sale for $200,000, Church Camp comes from the family of multiple graded stakes winner Middlesex Drive and is a half-sister to stakes performer Jodys Deelight.

Another standout New York-bred filly by a young mare on Wednesday at OBS was Hip 605[3], a chestnut daughter of Curlin, who was purchased by Stonestreet Stables for $260,000 after working an eighth in :10 1/5.

Bred in partnership by Pucker Ridge Farm LLC and Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC and foaled on April 10, 2013 at Pucker Ridge Farm[4] in Warrensburg, the Curlin filly is the first registered New York-bred, and second foal out of Trust N Intuition, a winning daughter of Trust N Luck bred in New York by Jan Sherrard and Leigh Bartlett. The dam of Trust N Intuition, Mandy’s Miss, is a sister to multiple stakes winner Monk’s Falcon and to stakes winner and producer Darlene’s Friend.

Through the first three days of the Ocala juvenile auction, 57 New York-breds have sold of 79 offered, including 9 private sales, which translates to a 28 percent buyback rate, more or less on par with the general sales buyback percentage of 26.8.

Six New York-breds have brought six figures so far and have averaged $69,895 per lot with a median price of $50,000. In the general population of the sale, the cumulative average is $77,587, up 4.3 percent from $74,359 in 2013, and the median stands at $48,000, up 3.2 percent from $47,000.

The fourth and final session at OBS begins on Friday at 10:30 a.m.

Click here[5] to view New York-bred auction hips.

Endnotes:
  1. Hip 876: http://obssales.com/aprcatalog/2015/876.PDF
  2. Edition Farm: http://editionfarm.com/
  3. Hip 605: http://obssales.com/aprcatalog/2015/605.PDF
  4. Pucker Ridge Farm: http://www.puckerridgefarm.com/
  5. Click here: http://www.nytbreeders.org/sales/auction-hips.cfm

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