A Candy Ride colt brought a sales-record $680,000 from Charles Chu at
Friday’s final session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June Two-Year-Olds
and Horses of Racing Age Sale. The bid eclipsed a mark of $575,000 set by a Scat
Daddy colt at Tuesday’s first session, which was equaled later in the week by
sons of Into Mischief and Super Saver.
Eddie Woods, agent, consigned the Candy Ride colt, who was offered as Hip No.
932. He is out of Spooky Minister (Deputy Minister), who has already reared the
juvenile’s Grade 3-placed full brother Holy Candy. Spooky Minister is herself a
daughter of Grade 1 winner Lunar Spook (Silver Ghost).
The April 21 Kentucky-bred gray worked one furlong in :9 4/5, co-fastest of
the day at the distance, at last week’s under tack show.
At the conclusion of the juvenile portion of the sale on Friday, 127 horses
had sold for $5,248,100, an increase of 9.4 percent over the corresponding 2014
session when 146 two-year-olds sold for $4,798,300. The session average jumped
25.7 percent, from $32,865 to $41,324, while the median declined 9.1 percent,
from $16,500 to $15,000.
The four-session juvenile sale ended with 591 horses selling for $23,475,500,
a rise of 4.2 percent from last year when $22,539,500 was grossed from the sale
of 712 head. The average was up 25.5 percent, from $31,657 to $39,722, while the
median was down 10 percent, from $20,000 to $18,000.
Leading the Horses of Racing Age portion of the sale was an unraced
three-year-old colt by Super Saver, which brought $230,000 from trainer Lynn
Whiting, agent for owner Charles Cella. Hip 1127 was consigned by Stephens
Thoroughbreds, agent.
The Kentucky-bred is out of Sharp As a Whip (Successful Appeal), a
half-sister to stakes winner Ballynoe (Distorted Humor). Both are by stakes
winner Dynasharp (Dynaformer), a half-sister to Grade 3 winner Two Months Rent
(Purim).
The Super Saver colt’s fourth dam was Argentinean Group 1 winner Nice
Tradition (Search Tradition), a full sister to Argentinean Group 1 winner Nice
Bijou and a half-sister to Argentinean Horse of the Year New Dandy (New Noble).
Business was up across the board for the Horses of Racing Age session. Twelve
horses sold for $564,000, an increase of 115.3 percent over last year when 26
horses grossed $262,000. The average jumped 366.4 percent, from $10,077 to
$47,000, while the median was up 146.2 percent, from $6,500 to $16,000.
Full results can be found at obssales.com.