By Sarah Mace
The penultimate session of the four-day Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2016 April sale of two-year-olds in training continued to yield solid results for New York-bred juveniles, featuring an increase in median, somewhat improved RNA percentage and a new top Empire State-bred colt, an individual by Harlan’s Holiday who went to Sterling Racing LLC for $165,000.
Of the 56 New York-bred 2-year-olds offered through the first three sessions, 38 have sold (including three private sales), yielding a 32.1 RNA percentage, which is more or less in line with the 28 percent cumulative RNAs for the sale. The New York-bred average to date is $64,763, still under the sale average of $78,036 (up 1.7%) which benefitted from a seven-figure sale and a handful of other standouts yesterday. The New York-bred median of $47,500 is now outperforming the sale median of $45,000.
The top-selling New York-bred of Thursday’s session was Hip 619, a dark bay/brown colt by Harlan’s Holiday bred by Len Riggio’s My Meadowview LLC. A graduate of the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale in Saratoga last summer, where he was purchased by De Meric Stables for $90,000, and consigned by de Meric Sales at OBS, the colt turned in a :10 2/5 breeze in the under tack show. He is the first foal out of Charlotte’s Rose, a placed Kentucky-bred daughter of Street Cry.
The OBS April sale concludes on Friday, with the final session beginning at 10:30 a.m.
