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The under-tack show for next week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training reached its midway point Wednesday, with a colt by Blame (hip 430) and a filly by Bee Jersey (hip 495) sharing the session's quarter-mile bullet time of :20 3/5.

Hip 495 was among the first horses to work Wednesday morning when she turned in her bullet quarter-mile drill. Consigned by Triple J Equine Sales, the chestnut filly is out of Tale of La Comete (Tale of Ekati). Her third dam is La Comete (Holy Bull), who is the dam of Munnings.

Bred by Charles Fipke, the filly RNA'd for $4,500 at last year's Keeneland September sale.

Hip 430, who also turned in his :20 3/5 work early in Wednesday's first set, is consigned by Wavertree Stables. The dark bay colt is out of Soul Spirit (Quality Road), who is a daughter of multiple Grade I-placed Soul Search (A.P. Indy) and a half-sister to graded winner Journey Home (War Front).

“We expected he would work really well, but I can't say we were expecting :20 3/5,” said Wavertree's Ciaran Dunne. “It was a really good work because on the backside, clocking it, it wasn't like he threw in a really fast sixteenth and then just kind of found his way home. He was even the whole way and kind of kept at it around the turn, which is what he is going to be. He's going to go long. The fact that he has that kind of speed makes you think he could be really dangerous going long.”

Of the decision to work the colt a quarter-mile Wednesday, Dunne explained, “I find if you go an eighth in June, you spend the next week explaining why he was only ready to go an eighth. Especially with this horse, he's not supposed to go an eighth of a mile. We wanted to give him a bit of room to get himself uncorked and into a rhythm.”

Dunne admitted the June sale wasn't his first choice for the juvenile.

“April would have been ideal, but he just had a few bumps in the road,” he explained. “Nothing serious, but more growing pains than anything else. Given that he was so big, we just backed off and took our medicine and figured we would wait for here. The general consensus was if he's a nice horse, he'll be a nice horse in June, too. Hopefully we will be rewarded for our patience.”

The June sale has become less a liability and more of an attractive option for horses who needed the extra time.

“I think the same guys that shop all of the other sales will shop June,” Dunne said. “There are horses in here that were in March and April and maybe caught an unfavorable racetrack or just something didn't go to plan. If there are legitimate reasons why they are here, I don't think there is any negative to them being here.”

Dunne purchased the Blame colt for $210,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale.

“The trend, I think, in the 2-year-old market is they want big, two-turn horses,” Dunne said. “If you can get a horse who looks like he will go long and shows the kind of speed that he's got, then you're going to get paid. More so than with the ready-made spring 2-year-old types. So it was a lot of money for him [as a yearling], but he was a beautiful horse. He's always been a beautiful horse.”

The proliferation of high-power partnerships in search of those two-turn type colts at the yearling sales last year pushed most pinhookers out of that segment of the market. That has led to a dearth of those well-pedigreed colts at the 2-year-old sales this spring.

“The most common thing we heard when we were in Timonium [at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale] was that there was a lack of two-turn colts,” Dunne said. “It seemed to be that it was strong on fillies, but light on colts. Hopefully those guys that were shopping colts there and couldn't find them will be here [at OBS].”

Dunne continued, “Some of the colts that were bringing the bigger money [at previous 2-year-old sales this year] were by stallions that the majority of yearling buyers would have turned their noses up at,” Dunne said. “Whereas the fillies that were selling well, by and large, had pedigree. There is just been a shortage of good colts. If you were lucky enough to have one, you got paid.”

A filly by Kantharos (hip 431) turned in Wednesday's fastest furlong of :9 4/5. Consigned by Brayhan Cruz's Cruzin' Thoroughbreds, the bay filly is out of Souper Colket (Ghostzapper) and from the family of multiple graded stakes winner Blofeld. She was purchased for $17,000 by Laura Kelton at last year's Keeneland September sale.

The under-tack show continues through Saturday with sessions beginning daily at 7:30 a.m. The June sale will be held next Tuesday through Thursday. Bidding commences each day at 10 a.m.

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The under-tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training, twice delayed by weather, concluded Sunday in Central Florida with six juveniles sharing the fastest furlong time of :9 4/5 and three equaling the day's fastest quarter-mile time of :20 4/5.

The under-tack show opened as scheduled last Thursday morning, but the day's final set was pushed back by severe thunder storms in the area. The show's final session had been set for Saturday, but more bad weather caused sales officials to push the session back to Sunday.

“I think they did the best they could. A lot of it was out of their control,” said Wavertree Stables' Ciaran Dunne. “I think they did the right thing the first day by calling the last set. When people put a year's work into something, you don't want to go breeze in a rain storm. We get one chance and that's it. So I think they did the right thing. Given the fact that we had tornadoes yesterday, it was another good call. I think they did the best they could under the circumstances.”

Despite the delays, Dunne said the track played fairly throughout the three sessions of the under-tack show.

“From our point of view, I think the track was consistent all three days based on how they trained at home and how they prepped in there,” he said. “They all pretty much worked to expectations. I don't think anybody worked worse than we expected because of the track condition.”

Wavertree sent out its sixth juvenile of the under-tack show to work in :9 4/5 when hip 437, a colt from the first crop of GI Met Mile winner Mor Spirit, hit that mark Sunday morning. Out of Follow My Tail (Indian Charlie), the chestnut was purchased by the Redwings pinhooking partnership for $160,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton July sale.

“He's always been a highly regarded horse,” Dunne said. “He is a beautiful physical, a lovely horse. He always has been. It wasn't unexpected that he would work really well. But you are always pleasantly surprised when they go that well.”

Dunne also pinhooked Mor Spirit, purchasing him for $85,000 at the Fasig-Tipton October sale in 2014 before reselling him for $650,000 the following year at the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream sale.

Asked if he saw similarities between the two, Dunne said, “None whatsoever. They are both fancy movers who cover a lot of ground, but physically they are a lot different.”

Another first-crop sire represented by a :9 4/5 work Sunday was Bolt d'Oro. Hip 438 was the third colt by the multiple Grade I winner to hit that mark during the under-tack show. Out of Foolish Cause (Giant's Causeway), the dark bay colt is consigned by Top Line Sales and was purchased by the Gladwells' Exclusive Equine Investments for $200,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale.

Hip 534, a daughter of Midshipman out of Kalistoga Girl (Tapit), covered her furlong in :9 4/5 for Cruzin' Thoroughbreds and hip 631, a colt by Goldencents out of Ms Hallie (Stormy Atlantic), worked in :9 4/5 for consignor Jose Munoz.

A pair of juveniles equaled Sunday's furlong bullet during the day's final set. Hip 544, a filly by Shackleford out of Key is to Win (Dixie Union) consigned by Longoria Training & Sales, completed her :9 4/5 work just before 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon. Hip 545, a son of Uncaptured out of Keyvacious (Teuflesberg) consigned by Hawk's Rest LLC, turned in his :9 4/5 work some 15 minutes later.

Among the bullet :20 4/5 quarter-mile breezers Sunday was hip 446, a colt by Violence out of graded stakes winner Freedom Star (Street Cry {Ire}), who is consigned by Eddie Woods. Hip 456, a first-crop colt by multiple graded stakes winner Awesome Slew out of Genau (Into Mischief), turned in his :20 4/5 work for Ocala Stud.

Golden Rock Thoroughbreds sent out hip 521, a colt by Into Mischief out of Jellicle Song (Street Cry {Ire}), to work in :20 4/5.

A colt by Bayern (hip 139) turned in the under-tack show's fastest furlong of :9 3/5 during Thursday's first session, while a filly by Adios Charlie (hip 213) had the week's fastest quarter-mile work of :20 2/5 Friday.

The OBS March sale will begin Tuesday with a session which has been pushed back to a 1 p.m. start time to compensate for the delayed breezes. The auction's second and final session begins Wednesday at 10:30 a.m.

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