Lanni Leads Day 2 With Two Purchases at OBS June Sale
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Day 2 at the OBS June Sale
Led by a $725,000 Uncle Mo filly, the second day of selling at the Ocala Breeders' Sales June 2-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age Sale June 8 saw 217 horses change hands of the 271 on offer for gross receipts of $9,414,000 to show a 10% increase year-on-year, at an average price of $43,382 and a median of $25,000. The 54 horses who failed to meet their reserve represent an RNA rate of 19.9%.
In 2021, Day 2 saw 205 horses sold of the 245 through the ring for final figures of $8,472,600, creating an average price of $41,330 and a median of $17,000. Forty horses failed to meet their reserve to record an RNA rate of 16.3%.
Nineteen 2-year-olds commanded six figures, selling to 18 separate buyers.
Cumulatively for the past two days of selling this year, 421 horses sold of the 546 through the ring for gross receipts of $16,883,500, establishing an average price of $40,103 and a median of $25,000. There were 125 juveniles who failed to meet their reserve price to represent an RNA rate of 22.9%.
At this point in 2021, the sale saw 401 horses sold of the 485 on offer for final figures of $16,229,000. Good for an average price of $40,471 and a median of $18,000. A total of 84 horses failed to meet their reserve to represent an RNA rate of 17.3%.
Agent Donato Lanni purchased the top-priced juveniles of the day: the filly by Uncle Mo consigned as Hip 525, and a $625,000 filly offered as Hip 560 by the late Flatter —both purchases for separate non-disclosed clients.
The Flatter filly consigned as Hip 560 breezes an eighth-mile in :09 4/5 during the under tack show at the OBS June Sale
Omar Ramirez Bloodstock sold Hip 525, a $117,000 pinhook sourced from the Paramount Sales draft at last season's Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale, hitting it out of the park for the home team. The Kentucky-bred filly is out of Ultralight Beam, a half sibling to multiple grade 3 winner His Race to Win , and from the family of multiple graded winner El Tormenta and to graded stakes winner Zero Tolerance .
Last week, the precocious bay breezed a bullet during the under tack show. In his second year selling at public auction, Ramirez recorded Day 2 as the leading consignor after selling nine horses for final figures of $911,500.
Lanni led Day 2 as the leading buyer by gross ($1,350,000) with his two purchases destined for trainer Bob Baffert on the West Coast.
Sam Cripps and Donato Lanni at the June OBS Sale
The June Sale concludes June 9 beginning at 10 a.m. ET with Hips 749-1167 on offer. The sale will be live-streamed via the OBS website at obssales.com and is also available on BloodHorse.com.