{"id":1628,"date":"2017-07-10T17:19:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T17:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linda-rice.com\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2017-07-10T17:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T17:19:55","slug":"colt-sells-for-400000-at-ocala-breeders-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/colt-sells-for-400000-at-ocala-breeders-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Colt sells for $400,000 at Ocala Breeders\u2019 Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\">Ocala Breeders\u2019 Sales continued its string of successful sales this past week with the OBS June Sale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Once again, buyers were willing to open their wallets and sales broke records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The sales-topper was sold Tuesday, the opening day of the sale, when a First Dude colt brought the hammer down at $400,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The seller was Top Line Sales, LLC, and the buyer was David Dizney Racing Syndicate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hip No. 199 was out of the mare Natalie\u2019s Moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The sire First Dude was a homebred that ran under the colors of Dizney\u2019s father Donald Dizney.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Wednesday\u2019s session-topper was Hip No. 631 \u2013 a filly by Astrology \u2013 sold by Tom McCrocklin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The filly was purchased for $300,000 by Mandy Pope\u2019s Whisper Hill Farm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">McCrocklin purchased the filly from Pope for $50,000 at the 2016 OBS August Yearling Sale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pope seemingly wanted the filly back paying the $300,000 price tag.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 2-year-old sessions of this year\u2019s sale had 424 horses sell for $15,216,900 compared to last year\u2019s four-day sale 619 horses selling for $17,930,900. This year\u2019s cumulative average rose 23.9 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe OBS June Sale wrapped up another good 2-year-old sales season. It is nice to see a broader buying base active at different price ranges,\u201d said OBS president Tom Venturi. \u201cThe June Sale has grown in stature over the last several years thanks to horses like multiple Breeders\u2019 Cup winner Goldencents. The consignors have complete confidence in bringing their top horses to the June Sale, which has been a big boost to the sales results.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Venturi praised the track\u2019s artificial racing surface for its performance during under-tack shows, which were plagued by inclement weather. The facility has a SAFETRACK surface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe racetrack was incredible throughout the under-tack shows and handled the heavy rains extremely well. It would have been difficult to hold an under-tack show on a traditional dirt surface and it certainly wouldn\u2019t have been consistent. Our track crew, led by Bob Baron, did a tremendous job under very trying conditions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Eddie Woods was the top consignor with 18 head sold for $1,599,500.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The top buyer was Linda Rice, who purchased seven horses for $1,190,000. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The next sale on the OBS schedule is the prestigious Selected Sale of Yearlings on Oct. 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That will be followed by the Open Sale of Yearlings on October 11 and 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">TOP FIVE PRICES (Hip number, sex, sire, mare, consignor, buyer) price<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1 \u2013 #199, colt, First Dude, Natalie\u2019s Moment, Top Line Sales, David Dizney Racing Syndicate) $400,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">2 \u2013 #335, colt, Midnight Lute, Screen Giant, Timber Creek, agent, Linda Rice, agent) $320,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">3 \u2013 #317, colt, Twirling Candy, Saint Knows, Eddie Woods, agent, Bradley Thoroughbreds, agent) $310,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">4 \u2013 #631, Astrology, filly, Dreamingly, Tom McCrocklin, agent, Whisper Hill Farm, agent) $300,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">5 \u2013 #138 (Times Square), colt, Tapit, Magical Feeling, Eddie Woods, agent, Calumet Farm) $250,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Original Article &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.villages-news.com\/colt-sells-400000-ocala-breeders-sales\/\">https:\/\/www.villages-news.com\/colt-sells-400000-ocala-breeders-sales\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocala Breeders\u2019 Sales continued its string of successful sales this past week with the OBS June Sale. Once again, buyers were willing to open their wallets and sales broke records. The sales-topper was sold Tuesday, the opening day of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}