BY BROCK SHERIDAN
Hip 56, Last Leaf, a 6-year-old stakes-winning broodmare prospect purchased by Joe Peacock’s Senor’s Senorita’s for $140,000, topped the action at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Winter Mixed Sale Tuesday. At recent auctions, Peacock has been building his broodmare band under the Senor’s Senorita’s banner for his recently retired stallion, the multiple graded stakes-winner Senor Buscador, who earned nearly $13 million during his career on the track. Agent Marette Farrell signed the ticket on behalf of Peacock and Senor’s Senorita’s.
Consigned by Gilberto Martinez in the name of his G. Martinez Training as agent, Last Leaf is by Not This Time out of stakes-placed My Miss Kallie, by Paddy O’Prado. Last Leaf won the Hollywood Beach and was multiple graded stakes-placed.
“He really wants to support the stallion with good mares,” Farrell said of Peacock. “The mares we’ve already accumulated have all run good numbers, have good form. This filly ran in some of the top stakes races and was a graded stakes level filly. [Her pedigree] goes back to [champion] Soul of an Angel, who won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, and [Grade 1-winner] Homeboykris. It’s exactly what he needs. And she’s beautiful, just a gorgeous upper body.”
For Martinez, Last Leaf was the only horse his consignment sent through the ring at the Winter Mixed Sale, giving him a homerun of a result.
“I think she’s going to be a nice broodmare,” Martinez said. “She’s the only one [we sold] so it feels good to sell one like that. We were expecting a bit more but that’s okay.”
Selling for $97,000 to Lambholm as agent was Hip 70, a yearling filly by McKinzie from the consignment of Francis and Barbara Vanlangendonck’s Summerfield. The dark bay or brown filly is out of the Bellamy Road mare Picolata, a half-sister to stakes-placed Maegans Princesses.
The top-selling Florida-bred was Hip 233 that dropped the gavel at $95,000 on a final bid by Sea Warrior Stables LLC. By Yaupon, the bay colt is out of Catsoutofthebag, by Discreet Cat and was consigned by Richard Kent’s Kaizen Sales as agent. Catsoutofthebag is a full sister to stakes-placed Fly at Dawn the colt was bred in Florida by Helen and Joseph Barbazon.
Another Florida-bred sold well in Hip 192, a chestnut colt from the consignment of Boutte Sales as agent. By Vekoma out of Arcelor, by Telling, the colt sold for $80,000 to Kimmel and Sallusto as agent. Arcelor is a half-sister to stakes-placed Lavalette Gold and the colt was bred in Florida by Margie M. Webb.
Hip 269 lit up the money board at $75,000 on a final bid from Eduardo Soto. Consigned by Lisa McGreevy’s Abbie Road Farm as agent, the bay colt is by Candy Ride (Arg) out of Fabulous Devotion, by Tapit and his third dam is multiple Grade 1-winner and stakes-producer Society Selection.
Hip 116 went for $72,000 on a final bid from Gray A. Day. By Frosted out of Small Axe, by Dixieland Band, the filly was consigned by Afleet Equine Services as agent. Small Axe is out of Golden Mean, a full-sister to multiple Grade 1-winner Peaks and Valleys and stakes-winning, multiple stakes-producer Alternate.
Hip 26, a bay colt by Army Mule, garnered a final bid of $70,000 from SB Consulting. Out of Maisie, by Stay Thirsty, the colt was consigned by Danielle Loya’s Silver Oaks Farm as agent. Maisie is a half-sister to multiple graded stakes-winner and stakes-producer Lovely Bernadette.
Riley’s Boy went to $65,000 to acquire Hip 214, a Florida-bred colt by Vekoma out of Blue Katana, by Formal Dinner, a full-sister to Cosmo Bell, who was graded stakes placed in Japan; and a half-sister to stakes-winner Bernie Blue and stakes-place Pyrite Blue. Consigned by Richard Kent’s Kaizen Sales as agent, the dark bay or brown colt is a half-brother to stakes-winners Crafty Blue Kat and Pyrite Blue Magna. The colt was bred in Florida by Jennifer A. Johnson and Gillian K. Johnson.
Hip 152 is a Florida filly from the consignment of Lisa McGreevy’s Abbie Road Farm as agent that sold to Trivial Partners for $60,000. The bay filly by Yaupon is out of the stakes-placed mare Tea for Two, by Valid Expectations, a full sister to stakes-winner Bridesmaid and a half-sister to Grade 2-winner Postponed; stakes-placed, stakes-producer Pardonmecomingthru and stakes-producer Cuero. The filly was bred in Florida by Royal Bloodstock Sales LLC and Sandra Powers.
Arindel spent $57,000 to obtain a Florida-bred colt by first crop sire Roadster, who stands at Ocala Stud. Selling as Hip 295 from the consignment of Francis and Barbara Vanlangendonck’s Summerfield, the bay colt is out of the Florida-bred mare Hardcore Cat, by Wildcat Heir, a half-sister to Florida-bred Grade 2-winner Dorth Vader.
The one day auction produced gross sales of $3,098,700 from 212 head for an average of $14,617 and a median price of $7,500.
The 2024 January sale was held over two days with a consignor preferred session and Horses of Racing Age comprising the first day and an open session taking place the second day. This year saw the 2-year-olds and Horses of Racing Age being sold in the OBSOnline January auction, which began Jan. 23 and runs through noon ET Jan. 30. Visit obsonline.com to view the sale.
Lisa McGreevy led all consignors while selling from her Abbie Road Farm consignment with 25 head bringing $528,200. Richard Kent’s Kaizen Sales sold 16 head for $349,000.
Joe Peacock’s Senor’s Senorita was the leading buyer with his lone purchase of the top-selling mare for $140,000 while H.H. Agent bought two head for $100,000.
The next sale on the OBS calendar is the prestigious March Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training scheduled for March 11-13. Under Tack programs are slated for March 5-8.
Portions of this story were taken directly from an OBS press release.
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