OCALA, FL (352today.com) – It’s a thoroughbred farm where previous owners produced Classic winners, winners of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes, Breeders’ Cup winners and Eclipse Award winners or national champions, and the new owners have produced Classic winners, Breeders’ Cup winners and Eclipse Award winners.
Watching Park Farm, a 244.5-acre facility in Ocala formerly owned by Eddie and Angela Woods, was acquired by D&B Scanlon Holdings, LLC, for $6.5 million last August.
Eddie Woods, who retired in April 2025, and David Scanlon have both enjoyed tremendous success as 2-year-old consignors, and the sale means that the storied thoroughbred facility will remain just that, under the Scanlon banner, for years to come.
The right place at the right time
David Scanlon and his wife Blair King had been in the market for a place of their own, having been based at the Oak Ridge Training Center, in Morriston. However, with their continued success, which included the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Sierra Leone, who was also named champion 3-year-old male of 2024, it was time for them to act on one of their primary goals and buy their own facility…