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Shackleford Filly Swiftest at OBS Saturday

A filly by Shackleford (hip 573) worked the fastest quarter-mile of the week when covering the distance in :20 3/5 during Saturday's fourth session of the under-tack show ahead of next week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June Sale of 2-Year-Olds. Consigned by Jonathan Navas's Navas Equine, the bay filly is out of Moondancer (Cuvee) and from the family of Grade I winner Kitten's Dumplings.

“She was always training well and has a good mentality,” Navas said. “But last week when she prepped at OBS, she went :21 1/5. I usually prep at 70%, nothing crazy. So that was a very good solid preparation and she just kept improving from there. She was eating good and feeling better every single morning getting closer to the breeze show. Fortunately enough, this morning she just repeated or improved what she had been showing me.”

Navas purchased the youngster for $7,500 at last year's Keeneland September sale.

“You just have to be in the right place at the right time,” Navas said of the bargain purchase. “I just happened to be lucky–maybe a few people had already purchased their horses and I was lucky to be there at the right time when the ring was a little lonely and there wasn't too much competition. I fell in love with her right away. I liked her body, her conformation and her size–she's got to be taller than 16 hands. It seemed like the right price, so I just went for it.”

From a racing family in Venezuela, Navas has been in the U.S. since 2005.

“I've always been around the racetrack,” he said. “I've been an assistant trainer for a few people and I exercise horses.”

Navas launched his consignment last year and his first group of graduates includes Windy City Red (Chitu), who sold for $54,000 at last year's OBS June sale and went on to finish third in last year's Speakeasy S. before competing in the GII Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint.

“I like competition and I don't get comfortable doing just one thing,” Navas said of the decision to start Navas Equine. “I like challenging myself. And that's one of the things that led me to try to open my own consignment and go and do great things if it's possible. At least to try it out.”

Based in Ocala, Navas aims to pinhook between 10 and 15 yearlings a year.

“I have clients, but not a lot of clients, so most of them are my horses,” Navas said. “But I've been doing breaking and training and getting good feedback. I have Marc Tacher, which is Sonata Stables. I am the one who is doing all of his breaking and training and then we send them to another consignment for them to finish the preparation and go to sales and racing. I've been fortunate to have good people supporting me.”

Seven horses worked the furlong in a co-bullet :10 flat Saturday: hip 570, a filly by Neolithic consigned by Hidden Brook on behalf of Patricia Generazio (video); hip 603, a colt by Central Banker consigned by RiceHorse Stable (video); hip 648, a filly by Bal a Bali (Brz) consigned by Little Farm Equine (video); hip 660, a colt by Bal a Bali consigned by Harris Training Center (video); hip 661, a gelding by Neolithic consigned by Two Oaks Equine (video); hip 697, a filly by Klimt consigned by Sugar Hill (video); and hip 713, a filly by The Big Beast consigned by Envision Equine (video).

The under-tack show concludes with a final session beginning at 7:30 a.m. Sunday. The June sale will be held next Wednesday through Friday with bidding beginning daily at 10:30 a.m.

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Top Line Juveniles Shine at OBS

Jimbo and Torie Gladwell's Top Line Sales claimed the fastest furlong and quarter-mile breezes of Friday's third session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's under-tack show ahead of the June Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training, with a filly by Frosted working the second :9 4/5 furlong of the week and a colt by Arrogate setting the new quarter-mile mark of :20 4/5.

When hip 447, a daughter of Frosted out of graded stakes winner Jody Slew (Slew City Slew), turned in her :9 4/5 breeze Friday, it was actually the filly's second bullet work of the spring. She also worked in :9 4/5 ahead of the OBS March Sale, but ultimately had to be withdrawn from the auction.

“She went :9 4/5 in March,” Torie Gladwell said. “So we knew she was really fast, but we weren't sure she could do it again. Because you never really ask a horse to go that fast twice. We don't ever ask our horses to go that fast on the farm. So the only time they do it is for the breeze show.”

Gladwell continued, “In March, she came up with a little vet issue, so we had to scratch her and we ended up doing a little quick surgery and took care of it. We gave her some time off and brought her back here and she did do it twice. So we are really happy with her.”

The filly was purchased by Jimmy and Martha Gladwell for $65,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase.

“They trained her and they get all the credit for the work on that filly,” Gladwell said of her in-laws. “They've done everything to get her ready.”

Gladwell added of the filly, “She's grown since March. She's a little bigger and stretchier now. She looks really good.”

Hip 393, a colt by the late champion Arrogate, became the first juvenile of the week to shade :21 when he worked his quarter-mile in :20 4/5 Friday in Ocala.

“I can't take credit for that colt either,” Gladwell said. “He was at Miami with the de Merics and he's owned by Marc Tacher. We only had him for maybe three weeks on the farm prior to coming over here. So we really just test drove him a little bit on the farm. We knew he was fast, everybody told us he was fast, he worked good in Miami. We came over and were just kind of easy with him going into it and he showed up.”

The dark bay colt is out of stakes winner Hero's Amor (Street Hero), a full-sister to multiple graded placed Threefiveindia. He was purchased by Tacher for $200,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton October Sale and RNA'd for $240,000 following a :10 2/5 work at the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale.

“He is average-sized and put together really well,” Gladwell said of the colt. “He's a gorgeous, gorgeous horse.”

Both of Friday's bullet breezers are making their second sales appearances of the spring. It's a recipe that has already worked this year, with a colt by Into Mischief RNA'ing at the Gulfstream sale for $750,000 before bringing $875,000 at the OBS Spring sale.

“If they can show up and do it twice, I think it actually shows these buyers that they are good sound horses who like their jobs,” Gladwell said.

The Top Line Sales consignment was also represented by a Practical Joke filly who earned the quarter-mile bullet and a Maclean's Music filly who shared the furlong bullet Thursday.

“Extremely well,” Gladwell said when asked how the consignment's horses were performing on the track. “They seem to be coming out of it, as far as X-rays go, in pretty good shape. They are coming back and they're not just jaded coming back to the barn. They try hard, they are blowing, but they are not ready to just fall over. So that's nice.”

The under-tack show continues through Sunday with sessions beginning daily at 7:30 a.m. The June sale will be held next Wednesday through Friday with bidding starting at 10:30 a.m. each day.

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Midnight Storm Filly Zips Bullet at OBS

A filly by Midnight Storm turned in the fastest furlong work of the day and a pair of juveniles shared the day's fastest-quarter mile breeze during Wednesday's first session of the under-tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June Sale of 2-Year-Olds.

Consigned by Scanlon Training & Sales on behalf of breeder Alex Venneri, the Midnight Storm filly (hip 107) zipped her furlong in :9 4/5 shortly after 10 a.m. Wednesday morning.

“She's a pretty nice filly, but you never know until they actually get out there,” Venneri said. “We were optimistic, but we thought she probably needed another two or three weeks to get to be where they thought she needed to be. So it was a little surprising that she did it for us before that time. She is a late-bloomer, which is kind of typical with that family.”

Venneri has plenty of experience with the family. He co-bred and raced the filly's first-crop sire Midnight Storm, who has gotten off to a hot start in the juvenile sales ring this spring.

“He was just such a sound horse, which is just unheard of, and he was correct,” Venneri said of Midnight Storm. “I've always been high on him and I always thought his offspring were going to do well. I didn't think they would come out as 2-year-olds the first two months and be extremely precocious, but I am expecting pretty big things from him.”

Midnight Storm hit the board in 17 of 27 starts and earned $1,233,250. He won seven graded races over four seasons, including the 2016 GI Shoemaker Mile and he was third in that year's GI Breeders' Cup Mile and second in the 2017 GI Awesome Again S. and GI Santa Anita H.

In the sales ring, Midnight Storm has been represented by four juveniles to sell for over $300,000, topped by a $550,000 colt at the OBS April sale.

Venneri and partners claimed hip 107's dam, Ava G (Afternoon Deelites), for $25,000 in 2007. The mare produced Miss My Rose (Magician {Ire}), whose career was cut short by injury after she won a 2019 stakes race in just her second start.

“Her half-sister ended up getting hurt and we thought she was a Grade I horse,” Venneri said. “So we were high on this one.”

Venneri has another filly by Midnight Storm (hip 595) in the June sale with Scanlon Training & Sales and, looking further ahead, the breeder is excited about a yearling by the stallion out of Skittle Bomb (Giant's Causeway) he will offer at the Keeneland September sale.

“I have a Midnight Storm yearling that we are selling in September and that horse is pretty awesome,” Venneri said. “From the reports that we've heard, we expect him to do some really good things.”

A filly by Uncaptured (hip 5) worked the co-fastest quarter-mile of :21 1/5 during Wednesday's under-tack show. Bred and consigned by Ocala Stud, the chestnut is out of Valid Concorde (Concorde's Tune) and is a half-sister to stakes winner Seismic Jolt (Kantharos).

A colt by Candy Ride (Arg) (hip 18) also worked the quarter-mile in :21 1/5. Consigned by Wavertree Stables on behalf of breeder Joe Minor's JSM Equine, the bay is out of Viva Malala (Malibu Moon), a half-sister to multiple stakes winner and Grade I placed Icabad Crane (Jump Start).

Minor purchased Viva Malala, with this colt in utero, for $100,000 at the 2018 Keeneland November sale. The juvenile worked a furlong in :10 3/5 before RNA'ing for $30,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale in March.

The OBS June under-tack show continues through Sunday with sessions beginning daily at 7:30 a.m. The June sale will be held next Wednesday through Friday with bidding starting at 10:30 a.m. each day.

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OBS Under-Tack Show Begins Wednesday

The five-session under-tack show ahead of next week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June Sale of 2-Year-Olds gets underway Wednesday morning at 7:30 a.m.

Hip numbers 1-185 will breeze Wednesday. Hips 186-370 will go to the track Thursday; hips 371-554 breeze Friday; hips 555-738 work Saturday and hips 739-927 will go to the track Sunday.

The under-tack show will be streamed live on TheTDN.com.

The June sale will be held next Wednesday through Friday with bidding beginning each day at 10:30 a.m.

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