OBS sales topper Tracker Jacker headed to Churchill Downs

Tracker Jacker, who sold Wednesday for a sales-record $525,000 at the OBS

June two-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale, is scheduled to

leave Ocala, Florida, on Thursday afternoon and should arrive at trainer Mark

Casse's barn at Churchill Downs on Friday.

The colt from the first crop of Pioneerof the Nile was one of six horses

bought by the sale's leading buyer, Ernie Semersky and Dory Newell's Conquest

Stables.

"We liked his looks, how he went and his pedigree," Casse said. "We liked

everything about him."

Casse advised on a total of eight purchases at the sale and said five of them

will join his string at Churchill Downs.

"When you spend that kind of money, you're looking for a Kentucky Derby or

Kentucky Oaks-type horse," Casse said. "That's one of the reasons they're going

to Churchill. You can't do enough training there and we love Churchill because

it's a safe track and is good for young horses."

Casse said Tracker Jacker and the other purchases could debut during

Churchill Downs' new September Meet.

"One or two could be ready before and we'd run at Arlington or Woodbine or

Ellis, but we are looking at September," Casse said. "We'll have horses at

Churchill and Arlington this summer and we'll send the occasional horse to

Saratoga, but we're not going to have a string there this year."

Casse, via phone from his barn at Arlington Park, said he will be at

Churchill Downs on Friday to saddle Conquest Stables' Conquest Two Step for his

debut in the fourth race. A two-year-old colt by Two Step Salsa, Conquest Two

Step was purchased at the OBS April Sale for $420,000.

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