The first of four sessions of the Ocala Breeders 2-Year-Old Spring Training Sale ended April 16 with $775,000 (Hip 199) from the first crop of Uncle Mo stallion Caracaro head procedure. Donato Lanni signed the ticket for Three Amigos, and Bob Baffert will train the filly in Southern California.
Consigned by Global Thoroughbreds, dealer, the cove did not win Medaglia d’Oro Key D’Oro mare and she is a half-sister to the stakes-placed Twirled. She comes from a family of successful girls that includes Third Key Phrase Dam, a Grade 1 winner; graded stakes winner Half Ours and stakes winner Yankee Gentleman.
The filly performed well for her young sire in the preview under tack, going an impressive eighth length in :20 2/5. Caracaro, who represents $6,500 at Crestwood Farm, has maintained good relations on the track. He finished second later Country grammar in the 2020 Peter Pan Stakes (G3) and was runner-up law in the Travers Stakes (G1). Caracaro is out War front horse Peaceful time. He was purchased by Global Thoroughbreds for $95,000 from the Buckland Sales consignment at the 2017 Keeneland November Sale. Caracaro has finished first or second in all four of his lifetime starts for Global Thoroughbreds and Top Racing and trainer Gustavo Delgado. He was bred in Kentucky by SF Racing.
“We are very happy to have her,” Lanni said. “(Caracaro) is Uncle Mo’s son. I think overall, (Caracaros) looks pretty good. He’s throwing a nice, athletic horse. You see a lot of Uncle Mo’s influence.
Donato Lanni at OBS
“She did everything that was asked of her,” Lanni added of the filly. “She goes fast, gallops fast and comes back great. We’re very happy.”
The highest priced colt and second highest priced horse of the session was Hip 291, a colt from the first litter of the WinStar Farm stallion Global campaign , who obtained $650,000 from Pedro Lanz, a KAS Stable agent based in Saudi Arabia. Powered by agent Eddie Woods, the bay colt was out of the running to win Yes It’s True Mare Maid in Heaven, a full sister to the graded stakes winner Yesbyjimminy and placed Qureall multiple stakes winner and a half-sister to multiple stakes winner Magic Mecke and stakes winner AJ Melini.
Bred in Florida by Katherine Nielsen and Gem Racing, the colt was a $150,000 filly for Quarter Pole Enterprises in the Kaizen Sales consignment at last year’s OBS October Yearling Sale. He passed quickly in :10 flats in the preview under tact.
“I know this horse,” Lanz said. I saw this horse at the OBS October yearling sale and even tried to buy him.” “(But) he was bought by Eddie Woods. I saw the breeze. Spectacular action, very graceful, smooth stride. Ten paces flat, beautiful gallop. Nice horse, like a baby horse I saw in October but stronger. And I got the horse.
“I think he will race in Saudi Arabia,” Lanz continued, “but I have to ask them because they are starting some activities here. I will try to keep the horse here because I love the horse. I was expecting (to pay) $400,000, maybe $500,000. Everyone had the same horse, so I told them to prepare for a fight because this horse ran very well and had been thoroughly tested. This trade is very difficult.”
Global Millionaire Campaign has won the Grade 1 Horse of the Year award twice curled up . Global Campaign won the 2020 Woodward Handicap (G1) by four lengths as well as that year’s Monmouth Cup Stakes (G3). The year before at 3 years old, he won the Peter Pan Stakes (G3). Trained by Stanley Hough, Global Campaign has won six of his 10 career starts for WinStar Farm and Sagamore Farm, returning $1,321,080.
Lanz, as an agent for KAS Stable, also signed $250,000 worth of tickets for Hip 195, a tournament Nyquistist colt consigned by Woods. Lanz topped the number of buyers Tuesday, spending $900,000 on two fry.
The workmanlike opening session, which had a late start time at noon ET to allow potential buyers more time to inspect after the regulatory schedule change, saw The top 145 changed hands for a total revenue of $19,725,000. Tuesday’s median price was $136,034 and the median price was $87,000. Sixty horses fell short of the reserve, representing a buyback rate of 29.3%. By comparison, a total of 175 horses were sold in last year’s opening session for a total of $22,746,000. Last year’s average for the corresponding session was $129,977 with a median price of $70,000.
Todd Wojciechowski, director of sales at OBS, commented on the first day of sales: “I thought it was very good.” “A lot of things are right. A good horse sells very well and I think we have a lot of nice horses today. Staying true to last year is a great start to the new week. Obviously, there are a lot of good horses left.” will come, and I’m looking forward to the next three days.”
Horses in the walking ring at the OBS Spring Sale
The first trading session was a bit slow but trading picked up as the afternoon progressed.
“I think maybe some of the sales are just getting started,” Wojciechowski said. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see some of those horses made in a post-sale context. I think a little bit of that is about buyers getting their feet wet, getting their feet wet. April (Spring Sale) begins as a mid-market sales and has evolved into premium and mid-market (sales). It’s fair to say in March we did a good job of getting middle-market horses into the bracket that time.
“This is still the first sale of the year and it’s easier for buyers to say, ‘I’ll wait and see what happens in the next few months.’ Again, this is a 2 year old sale, a little bit of everything for everyone.”
The spring sale continues on April 17 with hips 303-604 expected to enter the ring starting at 10:30 a.m. ET. As of Monday evening, 73 horses had been withdrawn from the second session on Wednesday.
