Overdriven Colt Lights Up OBS Bid Board
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Photo: Joe DiOrio
Hip 517, an Overdriven colt, sold for $525,000.
The O’Farrell family’s Ocala Stud hit another home run at the April 20 second session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s 2-year-olds in training sale, going to $525,000 for Hip 517, a colt from the first crop of Overdriven .
The price was the highest at the time during the second session of the four-day sale.
Consigned by Ocala Stud, where Overdriven stands for 2016 fee of $3,000, the colt was produced from Back to Basics and is a half brother to grade III winner Calculator and a 3-year-old filly Gust, both of whom are trained by Peter Miller, who purchased the colt.
"I train his brother and sister, and both are lovely animals," said Miller, who declined to reveal his client. "His presence was fantastic. He had everything I look for in a racehorse. That is more than we wanted to spend, but we really wanted him."