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US: OBS March concludes in style with $1 million Yaupon colt
A colt by Yaupon (Uncle Mo) took the number of seven-figure purchases at the OBS March Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale to seven when selling for US$1 million during Thursday’s third and final session. Consigned by King’s Equine, the bay colt was secured by bloodstock agent Donato Lanni on behalf of the Three Amigos partnership of Michael Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman. “He was beautiful, fast and sound,” Lanni told BloodHorse. “These horses that bring this kind of money have to do everything right, and he did.” The colt is out of the well-related Lemon Drop Kid (Kingmambo) mare Balbina and had previously sold for US$235,000 to Jose D’Angelo at last year’s Keeneland September Sale. King’s Equine’s Raul Reyes said the colt had generated strong interest throughout the sale. “There was a lot of interest in the horse, so we thought he might reach seven figures,” Reyes said. The three-day sale concluded with 443 horses sold for US$72.05 million, surpassing the previous March record of US$71.47 million set in 2023. The average rose to US$162,641 up from US$151,992, while the median increased to US$85,000, up from US$70,000 last year.
US: $2 million Nyquist filly steals the show at OBS
A filly by Darley America’s leading sire Nyquist (Uncle Mo) topped the second day of the OBS March Sale when selling to Killora/Linton, agent for Boyd Racing, for $2 million (AU$2,821,490) on Wednesday. Consigned by Ciaran and Amy Dunne of Wavertree Stables, the two-year-old was the second progeny of Nyquist to have sold for seven figures by Wavertree at the sale. They consigned a $1.2 million (AU$1,692,900) colt to Morplay Racing and Marquee Bloodstock during the opening session on Tuesday. Ciaran Dunne told Bloodhorse: “That’s beyond all expectations. You hope, but someone always tells me, hope is not a good strategy. “She’s by probably one of the top five stallions in the country, if not the top three. She’s a beautiful physical, she had an unbelievable work. She vetted clean, and if you can’t sell her, you just need to quit selling.” She added: “He’s put a lot of meals on the table. We were very lucky that we were associated with Mr [Paul] Reddam, and he raced him, so obviously we were exposed to a lot of them, and from day one they were just good horses. We kind of got a little bit of a leg up on everybody else, and for us he’s just the gift that keeps on giving.”