The Ocala Breeders’ Sales October Yearling Sale ended October 8 with wins across the board. A total of 309 horses changed hands during the two-day sale, with gross proceeds of $7,267,700, including private sales – a 27% increase over last year’s gross $5,724,600, from 297 horses sold. The average price was $23,520, with a median of $15,000, an increase of 22% and 50% respectively. The RNA percentage was 26%, representing the 106 horses that failed to meet their reserve.
A colt from a yearling sire from the first harvest Jackie’s warrior shipped as Hip 482 topped the final day of the October sale when it sold to Arroyo Bloodstock for $180,000.
“Donato Lanni pulled me aside this year and he said, ‘Nelson, stick to buying good horses and get that kind of name.’ So that’s what we’re trying to do,” Nelson Arroyo said. “We try to strive for what I really believe in.
“I loved the horse. He has a lot of substance,” said Arroyo, who runs his bloodstock operation with his son Elijah. “He has all the right parts. For me, he was my favorite horse at the auction. I told my boys we might have to pay the most, but thank God we got him for less than we thought. His page of course (is excellent), but his physicality and his spirit touched me.”
Hip 482 is the son of 2021 champion male sprinter Jackie’s Warrior and the winning Broken Vow mare Broken Dreams. She is the mother of four winners, including multiple stakes winner Caribou Club . The colt was bred and consigned by Glen Hill Farm.
Arroyo said the plan for the colt is to bring him back next spring for the OBS March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training.
“He’s a good family and he’s a nice colt,” Tom Proctor, who trained Broken Dreams and directs the Glen Hill mission, said of the Jackie’s Warrior colt. “I think the family goes back (to Glen Hill) about seven to eight mothers. He is a big, beautiful colt who is well balanced. I hope Nelson will do well with him.”
Glen Hill Farm sent another homebred Hip 506, a colt by Army mule who brought home $125,000 from Breeze Easy. The colt is out of the multiple stakes winner Closeout, who is a full sister to the graded stakes winner Capital Request, stakes winner Bricks and Ivy and the stakes-placed Family Foundation and Final Discount.
Hip 549 was the most expensive filly of the day, selling for $100,000 to Mustang Farms from the Sennebec South Farm consignment. The daughter of the leading freshman father Jaap is out of the In mischief mare Champagne Girl, a half-sister of the grade 1 stakes winner Light the City.
“She is a classy filly and she has never put a step wrong since she has been here,” said Sandi Dorr of Sennebec South. “She has everything you expect from a beautiful filly: a great body, she moves very well. She is difficult to take apart. I am happy for the opportunity to sell her.”
Yearling father of the first harvest Roadster the grade 1-winning son of Quality road located at Ocala Stud, was well received by the Florida market; a colt by him (Hip 480) brought $120,000 from Sean S. Perl Bloodstock from the Blue Sapphire Stables consignment. He was bred in Florida by Diana Flores and Jorge Diaz.
The Roadster colt was consigned as Hip 480 at the OBS October Sale
Another Florida-bred Roadster yearling – Whole Lotta Rosie, referred to as Hip 319 – was the second most expensive filly of the day when she sold to Champion Equine for $80,000. The filly is out of the stakes producing mare Shotdowninflames and was bred by Castle Gate Farm and consigned by Abbie Road Farm, agent.
Kaizen Sales sold 34 units totaling $1,133,000 to be the top consignor of sales; and West Coast Equine was the top buyer with 13 purchases totaling $287,000.
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