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OBS Winter Mixed Sale Supplemental Catalog Now Online

The supplemental catalog to the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2021 Winter Mixed Sale is now available in the company's website in the sale's main page.

Six horses have been supplemented to the Preferred Session, for a total of 183 horses cataloged as Hip No.'s 1 – 183. The session will begin Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 10:30 a.m.

The addition of 26 supplements swells the Horses of Racing Age Session to a total of 121, cataloged as Hip No.'s 251 – 371, beginning immediately following the Preferred Session.

Thirteen horses have been added to the Open Session, which gets underway Wednesday, Jan. 27at 10:30 a.m. with a total of 351 horses cataloged as Hip No.'s 451 – 803.

The Racing Age section's optional Under-Tack Show is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 25 at 9 a.m.

The supplemental catalog will be available in print at the sales grounds.

To view the auction's full online catalog, click here.

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Lone Star Special To Holly Hill Farm In Louisiana

Lone Star Special (Malabar Gold-Sunshine Special) has moved to Dr. Robert Hewlett's Holly Hill Farm in Benton, La. for the 2021 breeding season.

Benton Salmon has acquired 50 percent interest in the stallion who stood at Cherokee Ridge Farm in Carencro, La. for the previous two seasons for Irwin Olian's Tigertail Ranch. Tigertail Ranch has retained 50 percent ownership.

Salmon, a successful businessman with growing interest in the horse racing and breeding industry, is excited about his venture into stallion ownership and is planning on breeding a number of high quality mares to the stud.

“Lone Star Special has demonstrated remarkable success producing a number of high class runners from a very small number of foals,” Salmon said. “Notable among his offspring are Mobile Bay, Wheatfield and Trevilion. Lone Star Special has never had a fair chance and I intend to give him that. We are looking to gain the support he deserves from the Louisiana breeding community.”

Lone Star Special is an Unbridled-line stallion who is among an elite number of stallions that moves his mare up. Only 32 percent of all sires have a lifetime AEI higher than their mares CI. Lone Star Special has an AEI of 1.49 vs his mare's CI of 1.11. His statistics of 57 percent winners, $56,228 average earnings per starter, 11 percent blacktype horses and 19 percent 2-year-old winners, compete with leading national sires.

Lone Star Special is the sire of two graded stakes horses, both accredited Louisiana-breds.

Grade 2 Super Derby winner Mobile Bay ran from ages three to six, hitting the board in 21 of 29 lifetime starts. He won eleven stakes, often showing speed in route races of 1 1/16 to 1 1/8 miles, including the Grade 2 Super Derby, open company stakes such as the Sunland Park Handicap, the Maxxam Gold Cup and the Zia Park Derby, as well Louisiana-bred Stakes including the Louisiana Champions Day Classic at the Fair Grounds twice. He placed in another five stakes including the G3 Oklahoma Derby. His lifetime earnings of $1,246,440 rank him fourth among all-time leading accredited Louisiana-bred runners. A multiple accredited Louisiana bred champion, Mobile Bay was named 2015 3-year-old colt or gelding and Horse of the Year, 2016 older male and Horse of the Year, and 2017 older male.

Multiple stakes winner, Wheatfield ran second in the 201717 G2 Inside Information Stakes at Gulfstream. She was named 2016 4-Year-Old and up Louisiana-bred champion filly or mare. She earned black type in 11 stakes events, many against open company, and currently has $394,603 in lifetime earnings.

“I am delighted that Benton Salmon is enthusiastic about the prospects for Lone Star Special and is now my partner in this outstanding stallion. He will be breeding a number of top quality mares to him this season. Together we are building a strong book of mares for 2021,” says Tigertail Ranch's Irwin Olian. “At a fee of $2,000, he compares favorably to many stallions in Kentucky and Louisiana which stand for substantially higher fees. His ability to move up his mares puts him in very rare company among Louisiana sires and suggests there will be a lot more good things to come from him in the future”

Lone Star Special will stand the 2021 season for a fee of $2,000 live foal payable when foal stands and nurses.

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‘Great Presence’: First Foal Is A Filly For Airdrie Stud’s Preservationist

Preservationist, a Grade 1-winning millionaire son of Arch was represented by his first reported foal, with the arrival of a filly produced by the Giant's Causeway mare, Win Crafty, on Jan. 8 in Ocala, Fla.

A daughter of the graded stakes winner, Win Crafty Lady, Win Crafty is a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Harmony Lodge, Grade 2 Arkansas Derby winner Graeme Hall and to the stakes-winning and graded stakes-producing mare, Win's Fair Lady. Win Crafty is also a full-sister to Win McCool, herself a graded stakes-producer and granddam of the Grade 1-winning millionaire, Magnum Moon.

Breeder, Dominique Damico of Fly By Breeding, described her Preservationist filly as “a beautiful filly with great bone, a super shoulder and great presence,” and indicated that she will be retained to race.

A $485,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Centennial Farms, Preservationist was trained by Jimmy Jerkens. He vanquished top-class rivals including Catholic Boy, Yoshida and Tom's d'Etat when winning the G1 Woodward Stakes and G2 Suburban Stakes in 2019 en route to earning $1,084,550 and becoming one of 18 graded stakes winners under his first three dams.

Preservationist stands at Airdrie Stud for $10,000 SN.

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Tattersalls To Stage February Sale As Live Virtual Sale

Owing to the increasingly stringent lockdown measures in place in Britain and Ireland, Tattersalls will be staging the forthcoming February Sale exclusively as a live virtual sale taking place on the scheduled dates of Thursday, Feb. 4 and Friday, Feb. 5 with no horses, vendors or purchasers on site. Tattersalls will also hold an additional conventional fixture at its Park Paddocks base in Newmarket on Wednesday, March 31 and Thursday, April 1st.

All bidding at the live virtual February Sale will take place either online through the well – established Tattersalls live internet bidding platform or telephone bidding through members of the Tattersalls team.

Announcing the change of format to Europe's premier midwinter sale, Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said;

“The decision to stage the Tattersalls February Sale in a live virtual format has been taken in the best interests of all concerned and reflects our commitment to providing the best possible working environment for participants at all of our sales, in whatever capacity they may be attending. The decision also recognizes the increased difficulties surrounding domestic and international travel and it was felt that the prudent option was to stage the February Sale in a manner which allows vendors and purchasers alike to participate with confidence and in full compliance with prevailing rules and regulations. Our live internet bidding platform proved to hugely popular with buyers throughout last year, particularly at mixed sales similar to the February Sale, and we are confident that this live virtual format is the best option under the current difficult circumstances which we all continue to endure. In addition to promoting the February Sale to as many prospective buyers as possible our bloodstock sales team will liaise with vendors with regard to the requirements of the live virtual sale model.”

Details of the revised Tattersalls February sale format are as follows:

Thursday, Feb. 4 – Friday, Feb. 5, sale starting at 10 a.m. both days.

* All lots to be offered live as cataloged but without being present at Tattersalls Park Paddocks.
* No horses, vendors or purchasers will be present at Tattersalls Park Paddocks.
* All bidding to be conducted live to auctioneers through the Tattersalls live internet bidding platform or telephone bidding via Tattersalls personnel.
* The Tattersalls February Sale catalog can be viewed online at www.tattersalls.com and on the Equineline iPad App.
* All buyers must register for online or telephone bidding prior to the February Sale. Full details can be found at www.tattersalls.com.

Commenting on the additional Tattersalls mixed sale planned for March 31 and April 1, Edmond Mahony added;

“We already have an Ascot fixture scheduled for April 1 which almost certainly will have to be relocated to Newmarket and we felt it best to offer an extra day in recognition of the changes we have had to make to the forthcoming Tattersalls February Sale. As ever our priority is to respond to the requirements of all of our clients as best we can while continuing to provide a safe and vibrant market place.”

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