NEWS: SALES

Yearling filly by Uncle Mo tops NY-breds in select session of OBS August

Wednesday, August 24th, 2016

OBS Logo By Sarah Mace

A dark bay/brown New York-bred filly by Uncle Mo hammered for $150,000 to top the New York-bred offerings during Tuesday’s select session of the three-day Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s August yearling sale. The filly was the co-fifth top seller on the day.

The New York topper, Hip 227, bred by Lansdowne Thoroughbreds and foaled at Saratoga Glen Farm in Schuylerville on February 24, 2015, was previously purchased by Hal Hatch for $70,000 as a weanling at the Keeneland November sale. Consigned by Imagine at OBS, she went to Moneyballs Racing & Sales.

The sale filly is the first foal out of Maryland-bred Dark Nebula, a multiple winner and earner of $122,196. The filly’s second dam is a stakes performer, and she issues from the family of Grade 1 winner and sire Indian Charlie, and Grade 3 winner Soviet Sojourn.

Also bringing six figures in the OBS select session was Hip 145, a New York-bred filly from the first crop of Morning Line, a Grade 1-winning millionaire son of Tiznow. The dark bay/brown yearling, foaled February 20, 2015 at Hickory Hill Farm Thoroughbreds in Fort Edward, like the New York-bred session topper, was a graduate of the Keeneland November sale, where she went to J & S Racing for $45,000. At OBS, consigned by Stuart Morris, she fetched $100,000. Justin Casse, signed the ticket on behalf of Gabe Grossberg.

Bred by Omega Farm, LLC, the Morning Line filly is the first foal out of Union Boss, a winning Kentucky-bred daughter of Dixie Union, who has a weanling filly by Mucho Macho Man on the ground, and was bred to Bayern this year. Union Boss is one of five winners out of multiple stakes winner Capitol View and comes from the family of multiple Grade 1 winner Play Fellow.

Of 29 New York-breds to go through the ring in Tuesday’s select session in Ocala, 21 yearlings sold for an average of $23,962. The New York-bred median price was $10,000. In the sale at large, the average price was $40,667 (down 10% from $45,163), while the median was $25,000 (down 28.6% from $35,000). The New York-bred buyback rate was 27.6%, better than the sale’s buyback percentage of 38.1%.

The OBS August sale continues Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. with Hips 275-660 selling in the first of two Open sessions. Click here for New York-bred hip numbers.

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