Fast Colts Top OBS Horses to Watch List

If the speediest horses bring the highest prices, then the June 14 first session should get the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s June sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age off to a fast start.

Being offered during the first session are two of the three horses breezing the fastest during the six days of under tack pre-sale workouts. Hip 215, a Gemologist   colt who zipped an eighth-mile in :09 4/5, and Hip 93, an Into Mischief colt who worked a quarter-mile in :20 4/5, which, co-fastest at that distance.

From his sire’s first crop, the Gemologist colt consigned by Jim and Torie Gladwell’s Top Line Sales as agent was produced from the winning Storm Cat mare Distant Storm and descends from the female family of champion Outstandingly, grade I winner and sire Sky Mesa, along with a host of other black-type winners. Bred in Kentucky by the Gemologist Syndicate and Millennium Farms, the colt was bought by agent Julio Rado for $47,000 from the Millennium Farms consignment to last year’s Keeneland September yearling sale.

“We knew that horse was really fast and if everything went right he could go in :09 4/5,” said Torie Gladwell, adding the colt was scratched out of the OBS March sale after working an eighth-mile in :10.

Consigned by Thoroughbred Champions Training Center, the Into Mischief colt is out of a half sister to Canadian grade III winner Honolua Storm and his third dam, stakes winner Won’t She Tell, is a half sister to Triple Crown winner and top sire Affirmed.

Bred in Kentucky H. Allen Poindexter, the colt was bought by Thoroughbred Champions’ Jaime Mejia for $40,000 at the Keeneland yearling sale.

Hip 29 is the only juvenile to be offered on the first day sired by leading sire Tapit  , whose legacy grew even stronger over the weekend when his sons Creator and Lani finished first and third in the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (gr. I).

Consigned by Eddie Woods, agent, the colt bred in Kentucky by Gainesway Management Corp. Gainesway Thoroughbreds, Brian Graves, and Michael Hernon, was sold as a weanling for $420,000 to Sandridge Stable as part of the Gainesway consignment to the 2014 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. The colt was bought back for $520,000 when offered by Woods at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Florida March sale of 2-year-olds in training at Gulfstream Park.

Horses to Watch, OBS June sale, June 14

Hip, Description, Consignor

7—Colt, Stay Thirsty  —Baltic Flyer, by Fusaichi Pegasus  /Top Line Sales, agent

29—Colt, Tapit  —Beloveda, by Ghostzapper  /Eddie Woods, agent

46—Filly, Rule—Blue Hennessy, by Hennessy/de Meric Sales, agent

63—Filly, Bodemeister  —Steel Bliss, by Navarone/Tom McCrocklin, agent

93—Colt, Into Mischief  —Casa Lima, by Limehouse  /Thoroughbred Champions Training Center

108—Filly, Gemologist  —Charlie’s Legacy, by Indian Charlie/Southern Chase Farm, agent

125—Colt, Malibu Moon  —Cintaroas, by Grand Slam/Omega Farm, agent

179—Shoop, filly, Uncle Mo  —Dance for Dixie, by Unaccounted For/Turning For Home Racing Stables, agent

215—Colt, Gemologist  —Distant Storm, by Storm Cat/Top Line Sales, agent

218—Colt, Bodemeister  —Dixie Crisp, by Dixieland Band/Eddie Woods, agent

The Tapit colt is out of the grade III-placed Ghostzapper mare Beloveda, a half sister to grade III winner Golden Mystery, a nine-time winner who earned $540,223.

With daily sessions at 10:30 a.m., the OBS June sale runs from June 14-17.