A colt by top sire Gun Runner sold post-sale for $90,000 to Prancing Horse Farm, topping the OBSOnline March Second Chance Sale, a digital auction held March 27-31 featuring horses who breezed during the Ocala Breeders' Sales March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale and either scratched or failed to meet their reserve.
Consigned as Hip 507 by Wavertree Stables (Ciaran Dunne), agent, the colt is out of the stakes-winning, group 3-placed American Pharoah mare Willow, who is out of European champion Peeping Fawn and is a half sister to British stakes winner and grade/group 1-placed September. The colt breezed a furlong in :10 3/5 during the March under-tack show.
The second-highest-priced horse to sell was Hip 32, a filly by first-crop sire Epicenter who elicited a final bid of $70,000 from O'Neill Bloodstock. Consigned by Top Line Sales, the filly is out of the winning Mucho Macho Man mare Hurley, who is a daughter of multiple graded stakes winner Rite Moment. Hurley is a half sister to 2023 UAE Oaks (G3) winner Mimi Kakushi as well as stakes winners Moment Is Right and Laudation.
The Epicenter filly breezed in :10 during the March under-tack show.
As of April 1, a total of 10 horses sold for gross receipts of $419,500 for an average of $41,950 and a median of $37,500.
OBSOnline will also hold a "Second Chance" auction following the upcoming OBS Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training taking place April 14-17. The April digital auction will begin at noon ET April 24 and conclude at noon April 28.
