OBS August Yearling Sale Catalog Online

There are 1,043 yearlings cataloged for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. August yearling sale Aug. 23-25. The catalog is now available via the OBS website. 

Conformation photos of the 273 selected yearlings, to be offered Aug.23, will be available on the website and the iPad version beginning  Aug. 5.

The two-day open sale features 770 yearlings. Hip No.'s 275-660 sell Aug. 24 and Hip No.'s 661-1047 will be offered Aug. 25.  

The sale is set to begin at 10:30 a.m. EDT each day.

Long a source of quality horses, the OBS August sale has produced 24 international millionaire graduates, including the recent Japanese graded stakes winner A Shin Bullseye. Fifteen August sale graduates have won graded stakes since the beginning of 2015. Their combined hammer price was $842,500 and they have earned $6,863,812 to date. The latest August graduate in the headlines is Anthony Fanticola and Joseph Scardino's unbeaten 3-year-old filly Coppa, three-for-three and a graded stakes winner after recently taking Belmont Park's Victory Ride Stakes (gr. III).

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The sale features a strong stallion roster, with yearlings by upper-echelon sires Bernardini  , City Zip  , Congrats  , Flatter  , Ghostzapper  , Kitten's Joy, Mineshaft  , More Than Ready  , Scat Daddy  , and Uncle Mo  . Proven sires Awesome Again  , Broken Vow  , Distorted Humor  , Elusive Quality  , First Dude  , Into Mischief  , Kantharos  , Midnight Lute  , Mizzen Mast  , Super Saver  , Tale of the Cat  , Twirling Candy  , Two Step Salsa  , and Wildcat Heir are also represented.

Always a showcase for newcomers to the stallion ranks, the 2016 August sale features the offspring of classic winning first-crop sires Animal Kingdom  , Orb  , and Oxbow  , as well as Data Link  , Flat Out  , Fort Larned  , Graydar  , Justin Phillip  , Liaison  , Morning Line  , Paynter  , Point of Entry  , Prospective  , Rattlesnake Bridge, Shanghai Bobby  , Soldat  , Take Charge Indy  , Treasure Beach, Violence  , and Winslow Homer   are also represented.

Classic winnersShackleford   and Union Rags   head the roster of the sale's promising second-crop sires, along with Astrology  , Biondetti  , Bodemeister  , Maclean's Music, Mission Impazible  , Stay Thirsty  , Tapizar  , The Factor  , and To Honor and Serve  .

The sale will be streamed live via the OBS website, as well as Blood-Horse at bloodhorse.com/obs.