OBS April Final Session Ends on Strong Note
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Hip 1214, a Quality Road-Over Andover filly topped the April 22 session at $775,000.
A $775,000 Quality Road filly brought the highest session price for the final day of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s four-day spring 2-year-olds in training sale.
The filly, out of the War Chant mare Over Andover, sold three hips from the last horse sold. Trainer Linda Rice bought the filly from the Q Bar J Thoroughbreds, as agent, consigment. Rice declined to identify who she was buying for, but did say she liked the horse enough to miss her flight back to New York.
"She's pretty exceptional," Rice said.
Bred in Kentucky by South American Thoroughbred and Racing, the filly was previously purchased out of the 2014 Keeneland November breeding stock sale for $112,000 by Machmer Hall. She was offered as a yearling but failed to sell, bringing a fall-of-the-hammer price of $130,000.
Over Andover is a half sister to grade III winner Called To Serve and is out of the female family of grade I winner and sire Behrens.