Hip 234, a daughter of classic winner and Horse of the Year Authentic, brought $500,000 to highlight the OBS April sale opening session Tuesday. Photo courtesy of Grassroots Training and Sales.
A filly from the second crop of Authentic sold for $500,000 and another by the late former New York-based sire Combatant brought $135,000 to highlight the New York-bred offerings during the opening session of the OBS April 2-year-olds in training sale Tuesday in Ocala.
Bill Childs and Mark Stanton secured the session’s top-selling New York-bred – Hip 234, a daughter of Authentic out of the stakes-placed Bretheren mare Onebrethatatime.
Bred by Pine Ridge Stable LLC and foaled at Waldorf Farm in North Chatham, the filly is no stranger to being a session topper. She sold for $72,000 to highlight the second session of last year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling sale.
Grassroots Training and Sales – the buyer in Kentucky – consigned the filly who breezed an eighth in :9.4 during presale workouts. She’s the fourth foal out of Onebrethatatime, a three-time winner who earned $133,283 and is a half-sister to Grade 3 winner Wonderlandbynight and Gilded Miracle, the dam of Grade 1 winner Exaulted.
The Authentic filly finished the day as one of three six-figure New York-breds. OBS reported sales on 16 of the 19 New York-breds through the ring for $1,405,000, an average price of $87,813 and median of $55,000.
Hip 179, a filly by the late former New York-based sire Combatant, sold for $135,000 out of the McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds consignment Tuesday in Ocala. Photo courtesy of McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds.
Sallusto and Kimmel, agent for Winning Move Stable, landed the second highest priced New York-bred of the day, going to $135,000 for the daughter of Combatant out of the Central Banker mare Moneybackguarantee.
Consigned and bred by McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds LLC, Hip 179 was also foaled at McMahon of Saratoga in Saratoga Springs. She’s the second foal out of Moneybackguarantee, who produced fillies by McMahon’s resident stallion Solomini in 2022 and 2024.
Grade 1 winner Combatant, a popular stallion in the Empire State in his first season at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, died suddenly from Colic while standing the Southern Hemisphere season in August 2022 at Haras Porta Pia in Chile. Combatant stood his first season for $7,500 LFSN and bred 85 mares in his initial book.
Grassroots Training and Sales also sold the opening session’s top-priced colt, Hip 155, a son of Rock Your World out of the winning Dynaformer mare Miss Blarney Stone.
Bred by and foaled at Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag, the colt was purchased by Clear Stars Stable and Mitre Box Stable. He originally sold to Grassroots Training and Sales for $50,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale. Miss Blarney Stone is the dam of six winners, including stakes-placed Irish Sweepstakes and Begginer.
Clear Stars Stable and Mitre Box Stable also landed the session’s top-priced juvenile by an active New York-based stallion. Hip 13, a colt by King for a Day out of the Into Mischief mare Kiska, sold for $50,000.
Bred by Torie Gladwell and foaled at Stonegate Stables in Fort Edward, the colt was consigned by Top Line Sales, agent. Gladwell also bred both New York-bred winners out of Kiska – the Sharp Azteca filly Perfectly Mperfect and the 3-year-old Solomini filly Bam’s Bliss Kiss, who finished sixth in last weekend’s Park Avenue division of the New York Stallion Series Stakes for Clear Stars Stable and Mitre Box Stable.
King for a Day, a 9-year-old son of Uncle Mo out of the French Deputy mare Ubetwereven, stands for $5,000 at Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC in Stillwater.
