Two Juveniles Post Fastest Quarter-Mile Time at OBS

There were no breakout horses during the June 7 under tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales June 2-Year-Olds in Training and Horses of Racing Age Sale, with a pair of juveniles sharing the day's fastest time of :20 4/5 for a quarter-mile.

A Majesticperfection filly and a Raison d'Etat  colt breezed early in the session when temperatures were mild and skies were cloudy following an early morning shower.

As the day wore on, temperatures rose to the high 80s, and crosswinds increased to 10-15 mph by midday.

The Majesticperfection filly consigned as Hip 524 by Ciaran Dunne's Wavertree Stables, agent, was bred in Kentucky by DP Racing and is making her first appearance in a sale.

Out of the Rahy mare Madera Dancer, the filly is a half sister to Legends of War, a Scat Daddy colt who sold for $1,350,405 at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale and then displayed his precociousness with two wins and a second in the Al Basti Equiworld Gimcrack Stakes (G2) as a 2-year-old in England last year. Returned to the U.S., Legends of War recently finished third in the William Walker Stakes at Churchill Downs.

"She is a very strong, fast filly from a family of 2-year-old runners," Dunne said.

The Raison d'Etat colt, Hip 609 from Hoppel's Horse & Cattle Co., is making his first 2-year-old sale appearance, having been bought by Patrick Hoppel for $10,000 from Vinery Sales at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale. The colt was bred in Kentucky by Calumet Farm and was produced from the winning Dynaformer mare Neith. Second dam Squall City was a stakes winner at Santa Anita Park and has produced stakes winners Lady Chace and Vindy City as well as grade 1-placed Big Tiz.

"That horse has always been fast," Hoppel said, adding the colt's original purchase price effectively excluded him from being accepted to other juvenile sales this year. "He would have been in another sale, except for the price I paid for him."

The three fastest workers for an eighth-mile in :09 4/5 were Hip 495, an Algorithms  colt from Whitman Sales, agent; Hip 515, a colt from the first crop of Bourbon Courage  consigned by Victory Stable, agent; and Hip 462, an Overdriven colt from MR Racing, agent.

The Overdriven colt, bred in Florida by William F. Murphy and Annabel Murphy, is out of Lady Buddha, a Buddha mare who is a half sister to stakes-placed runners Blakelock and Lady Cerise, the dam of grade 3 winner Wild At Heart and stakes winners Pickapocket and Northern Belle.

Produced from the multiple winning Run Away and Hide  mare Lignite, the Algorithms colt was bred in Kentucky by Gatewood Bell, Wesley Ward, Bret Jones, Wes Welker, and Drew Fleming. Initially bought by Stephen Hope for $1,200 as a weanling, the colt was pinhooked into the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, where he was picked up by Jose M. Garcia Blanco for $14,000.

The Bourbon Courage colt was bred in Florida by Martha Mallicote and is out of the unraced Louis Quatorze mare Lulu Quatorze, a half sister to multiple stakes winner Lovable Lady.

The under tack show continues through June 9, with sessions beginning at 7:30 a.m. ET daily. The sale is June 12-14, starting at 10 a.m. daily.