OCALA, Fl – Following its third of four sessions Thursday, the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training needed just north of $14 million to secure its highest-ever gross. That amount was almost entirely secured Friday through the sale of one horse when Donato Lanni, bidding on behalf of Saudi businessman Amr Zedan, went to all-time high $10.5 million to acquire a colt by champion Flightline from the Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbred consignment. By the close of business Friday, the Spring sale had set records for gross, average, and median, as well as recording both its highest-ever priced filly and colt.
Through four sessions, 632 juveniles grossed $113,393,000 for an average of $179,419 and a median of $80,000. The auction’s previous record gross of $92,129,000 was set in 2022, while the April average has set records the previous three years, most recently landing at $139,343 a year ago. The previous record median of $70,000 was set in 2024.
“I think at the top, and we saw it in March as well, there were multiple players at the top end and that is healthy for what we do,” OBS President Tom Ventura said. “Day one in March when we sold three horses for a million and none of them were heading to [Bob] Baffert, that was a sign the top is pretty strong. And that repeated itself here in April.”…