Average, median drops significantly at OBS Winter Mixed sale

Average, median drops significantly at OBS Winter Mixed

sale

NOBLE EXCHANGE (Exchange Rate), a yearling colt consigned by Janie Roper,

agent, sold for $87,000 to lead all offerings at Tuesday's opening session of

the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2009 Winter Mixed Sale in Ocala, Florida.

Touring the ring as Hip No. 155, the gray Florida-bred was taken home by Eisaman

Equine.

Out of the Tabasco Cat mare Social Scene, a half-sister to the stakes-placed

Winsome Charm (Silver Charm), Noble Exchange descends from the stakes-winning

producer Jump With Joy (Linkage), the dam of multiple Japanese stakes winner

Washington Color (Black Tie Affair [Ire]), the Group 3-placed stakes winner Kew

Green (Brocco) and the Grade 3-placed Little Hans (Hansel).

The session's highest-priced broodmare, the seven-year-old ELENA'S DREAM (El

Prado [Ire]), brought a final bid of $62,000 from McKathan Brothers. Consigned

by Broken Back Farm, the unraced Elena's Dream, in-foal to Scat Daddy on an

April 23 cover, was offered as Hip 206.

Out of the stakes-winning A Dream Above (Great Above), Elena's Dream, Elena's

Dream is a full sister to the Grade 3 winner Nite Dreamer and a half-sister to

the multiple stakes-placed Up and Above (Mt. Livermore).

On Tuesday, 168 horses sold for $1,450,200, a decline of 43 percent from last

year's opening session when 109 head sold for $2,544,700. The average plummeted

63 percent, from $23,346 to $8,632, while the median was off sharply, from

$16,000 to $4,100, a rate of 74.4 percent.

The Winter Mixed Sale concludes Wednesday with the Open session beginning at

11 a.m. (EST). For more information, visit obssales.com.