OBS Concludes Record-breaking Season
BY CYNTHIA MCFARLAND
As the 2026 juvenile sale season wraps up in the Sunshine State, the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company June 2-Year-Olds in Training and Horses of Racing Age Sale is set for June 16-18. Under tack dates were June 9–13.
A total of 982 horses, including supplements and horses of racing age, will be offered.
All top ten stallions on the 2026 list of First Crop Sires by progeny earnings are represented by horses in the sale, including Life is Good, Golden Pal, Early Voting, Corniche, Roadster, Epicenter, Keepmeinmind, Nashville, Drain the Clock, and Mind Control.
The sale also includes horses by the top four Leading Florida Sires–Awesome Slew, Khozan, Neolithic, and Adios Charlie.
“This isn’t your father’s June sale,” said Tod Wojciechowski, OBS director of sales, noting that the pedigrees represented in this sale are a testament to the quality of horses their consignors are bringing.
“We’ve demonstrated that good horses come out of the June sale,” said Wojciechowski. “It’s become an upward spiraling event that gets better horses and more buyers.”
Graduates from the 2025 June sale have been making an impression at the racetrack.
Among them is CSLR Racing Partners’ Crude Velocity, who already has $622,820 in earnings. With three wins in four starts, including the Grade 2 Pat Day Mile, the Bob Baffert-trained Beau Liam colt just ran second in the Grade 1 Woody Stephens Stakes on Belmont Day at Saratoga.
A $250,000 purchase by Bill Childs out of the Omar Ramirez Bloodstock consignment in 2025, Crude Velocity turned heads with his :20 1/5 breeze at the sale, which equaled the OBS track record for the distance.
Black-type winner and graded stakes-placed Solitude Dude has just under $300,000 in earnings. The Yaupon colt has won four of his five starts to date and ran third in the Grade 2 Coolmore Fountain of Youth Stakes earlier this year.
Solitude Dude was a $300,000 purchase out of the Julie Davies consignment last June for for owner Chris Fountoukis by Joseph Saffie, Jr., who trains the colt.
The year’s June sale follows a historic OBS April sale, which saw a Flightline colt sell for a record $10.5 million.
In 2025, the June sale set records of its own.
On behalf of Gus King, consignor Randy Miles paid a June record price of $975,000 for the sales topper, a Curlin filly from the Caliente Thoroughbreds consignment. Trained by Steve Asmussen, that filly named Feminism, broke her maiden in her first start this year.
The overall average and median from last year’s sale established new June records.
Additionally, Miles sold the second-highest priced horse at the 2025 June sale, a $525,000 Gunner Runner filly purchased by MyRacehorse.
Randy Miles currently ranks No. 5 among two-year-old consignors for 2026. Through May, Miles has sold 70 head this year for $12,249,510 for an average of $174,993.
A Virginia native, Miles has been in the Thoroughbred industry for about three decades. He moved to Florida and worked as farm trainer for Charlotte Weber at Live Oak Plantation for several years before establishing his operation out of Crupi’s New Castle Farm in Ocala.
Miles has 25 horses in his June consignment this year.
“It’s been a big year. June has become an important sale now. Most of these horses have not been in another sale. We have a Vekoma colt we’ve always had pointed to this sale; he was always on the June list,” said Miles of his hip no. 788 by the 2024 champion First-Crop Sire in North America. “We had (several) Vekomas this year and you don’t want them on top of each other at one sale, so we spread them out between the sales.”
Miles says he’s been impressed by the quality of horses he’s watched in the breeze shows, while training his own.
“Last year when we sold in June, I said it was a good year, and this year seems like it’s a carbon copy,” he said. “Every sale has been good this year and has broken records. It’s great how the business is evolving. From what I hear, I hope this sale will continue along the same lines as the other three we’ve had this year. If we continue to have strong 2-year-old sales, it means the industry is healthy. I’m an industry person, not a ‘me’ person. I want the whole thing to be healthy. It makes it hard when you go buy yearlings, when everybody’s had a great year, but that’s okay, it just means the market is healthy.”
Sale sessions begin at 10:30 a.m. EDT each day of the sale.
Hip numbers 1 through 302, plus supplemental entries 303 through 327, sell on Tues., June 16 and Wed., June 17 will see hip numbers 351 through 652, and supplements 653 to 671. The final session on Thurs., June 18 features hip numbers 701 to 1002. Supplemental entries are hips 1003 to 1028. Also on Thursday, horses of racing age with hip numbers 1051 to 1053 and supplements 1054 to 1056 will be offered.
The full catalog, photos and videos can be viewed at obssales.com.
Online bidding is offered during the live sale. Buyers can register for bidding approval at obssales.com/obs-online-bidding-2.
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