Hip 766, a filly by Munnings bred by Triumphant Trio, sold for $170,000 Thursday at the OBS March sale. Photo courtesy of Pick View.
A pair of New York-breds – a filly by Munnings and a colt by Goldencents – elicited six-figure final bids during Thursday’s final session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s March 2-year-olds in training sale.
Those two added to the others from the prior to sessions, including a $700,000 colt by Justify out of champion New York-bred Pauseforthecause, to bring the sale total to 11 New York-breds that brought $100,000 or more.
Hip 766, a daughter of Munnings out of the winning Tizway mare Tizsomethingroyal, led the way Thursday on a bid of $170,000 ffrom Gary and Janet Anderson.
Bred by Triumphant Trio, foaled at Edition Farm in Hyde Park and consigned by Pick View LLC, agent, the filly originally sold to Stock Thoroughbreds for $130,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale. She’s the third foal out of the $103,067-earner Tizsomethingroyal, who is also the dam of the New York-bred 3-year-old Practical Joke colt Yo Banana Boy who is placed in three starts and sold for $160,000 at last year’s OBS April sale.
Triumphant Trio also bred a yearling colt by New York-bred classic winner and Horse of the Year Tiz the Law out of the mare.
Hip 825, a daughter of Goldencents bred by Patricia Generazio, sold for $150,000 Thursday at OBS. Photo courtesy of Cesar Loya Training & Sales.
Ken McPeek, agent, signed for the top-priced New York-bred colt Thursday, going to $150,000 for Hip 825, a son of Goldencents out of the stakes-placed Midshipman mare Wave of Glory.
Bred by Patricia Generazio, foaled at River Valley Farm in Gansevoort and consigned by Cesar Loya Training & Sales, agent, the colt previously sold for $80,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale. He also brought $85,000 during the Generazio dispersal at the 2023 Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.
Wave of Glory, a debut winner at 2 in 2015 and third in that season’s Furlough Stakes at Aqueduct for Generazio, is the dam of stakes winner and $154,058-earner Treasure King and the winner Glorious Wave. Wave of Glory sold for $40,000 at last year’s Keeneland January sale.
OBS reported sales on 10 of the 14 New York-breds through the ring Thursday for a total of $695,500, an average price of $69,550. Overall, 41 New York-breds sold for a total of $3,907,500, an average price of $95,305.
A colt from the first crop of New York-based stallion King for a Day brought the third highest price Thursday when J U Racing Stables went to $80,000 for Hip 731. Bred by Our Blue Streaks Stable and S G V Thoroughbreds, foaled at Irish Hill Century Farm in Stillwater and consigned by Steven Venosa’s S G V Thoroughbreds LLC, agent, the colt is the first foal out of the winning Freud mare Swayed.
King for a Day, an 8-year-old son of Uncle Mo, stands for $5,000 at Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC in Stillwater.
Hip 539, the first foal out of Pauseforthecause, landed the sale’s top price for a New York-bred during the second session. Donato Lanni, agent for Zedan Racing, signed for the colt offered by Pick View LLC, agent. Bred by Chester and Mary Broman and foaled at their Chestertown Farm in Chestertown, the colt is the first foal out of the Giant’s Causeway mare Pauseforthecause, a multiple stakes winner and earner of $546,093.
Pauseforthecause, campaigned by the Bromans, earned champion New York-bred older dirt female and female sprinter championship honors in 2019. She went 3-2-2 in nine starts that season, including victories in the Iroquois Stakes at Belmont Park and Garland Of Roses Stakes at Aqueduct. She placed in six other stakes during her career and retired with seven wins in 25 starts.
