Trio Share Furlong Bullet at OBS Under-Tack Show Sunday

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Three juveniles shared the fastest furlong time of :9 4/5 during the first session of the under-tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training Sunday.

A filly by Upstart (hip 75) was first to hit the bullet mark just minutes into the day's session. The dark bay is out of Lovely Marissa (Proud Citizen), a daughter of Grade I-placed Valiant Passion (Lion Heart) and a half-sister to graded-placed Nasty (Street Sense). She was consigned by Grassroots Training & Sales, which acquired her for $60,000 at last year's OBS October sale.

“She's been a really nice filly all year, we expected her to do well,” said David McKathan of Grassroots Training and Sales. “She prepped well, so we're very happy with her. Physically, she's everything you want to look at when you look at a horse. She's very well balanced, she's just beautiful. She's been showing us all year that she's got ability.”

A few minutes later, a colt by Shancelot (hip 70) turned in his bullet drill for the Top Line Sales consignment. The juvenile was bred by Chief Stipe Arnold.

“I felt like the horse was fast, but this was beyond expectations,” Arnold admitted Sunday evening.

Arnold purchased the colt's unraced dam Loteria (Nyquist) from Godolphin for $11,000 at the 2022 Keeneland January sale. The 5-year-old mare is a full-sister to stakes-placed Snead and is out of Raffle Ticket (A.P. Indy) a full-sister to champion Bernardini.

“I liked everything about the mare,” Arnold said. “She is by Nyquist out of a full-sister to Bernardini. I was hoping I got a bargain.”

While Arnold often sells his foals as yearlings, he kept this Apr. 26 foal for the 2-year-old sales.

“He was a late foal and kind of a late bloomer,” Arnold said of the colt. “I loved him from the start. We've liked him a lot.”

The 2-year-old colt is Loteria's first foal and she produced a full-brother last year before being bred back to Speaker's Corner.

“Shancelot's first runners are three now and one thing I've noticed about all of the horses I've seen of his is that they all look extremely fast,” Arnold said. “It manifests in different ways, but they all have it. And a horse that has that is bound to have a freak.”

Completing the trio of bullet workers was a colt from the first crop of multiple graded stakes winner By My Standards (Goldencents) (hip 134). He is out of the unraced Momento (Nyquist), a daughter of multiple stakes winner Martha's Moon (Malibu Moon) and is consigned by AVP Training and Sales. A $9,500 purchase by Ramiro Salazar at the 2023 Keeneland November sale, the colt RNA'd for $19,000 at the 2024 OBS Winter sale.

A pair of juveniles shared Sunday's fastest quarter-mile work of :20 3/5. Hoppel LLC sent out a colt by Mendelssohn (hip 123) to set the bullet mark. The bay colt is out of Marvelous Spot (Archarcharch), a daughter of stakes winner and multiple Grade I-placed In Her Glory (Miswaki). Bred by Machmer Hall, the colt RNA'd for $32,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton October sale.

A filly by Battalion Runner (hip 163), consigned by Ortega Stables, also worked a quarter in :20 3/5 Sunday. The bay is out of Miss Monk (Blame), a half-sister to Grade I winner Wicked Strong (Hard Spun), and was purchased in utero for $12,000 at the 2023 OBS Winter sale. She was bred by Sherry Mansfield and Kenneth Davis.

The under-tack show continues through Saturday with sessions beginning daily at 8 a.m. The Spring sale will be held next Tuesday through Friday. Bidding commences each day at 10:30 a.m.

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