For Immediate Release
The first live auction of 2025 at Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company takes place Jan. 28 with 342 horses, including supplemental entries, catalogued for its January Winter Mixed Sale.
The single-session auction will begin at 11 a.m. ET and features newly turned yearlings, broodmares, and broodmare prospects. Comparison figures to 2024 will not be applicable as last year’s 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 has 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. Several of the horses will be available for inspection on the OBS sale grounds during the live sale. The OBSOnline January sale had an additional entry added to the catalogue with multiple stakes placed Dream Concert being consigned as Hip 425. Visit obsonline.com to view the sale.
Notable graduates of the Winter Mixed sale include newly minted Pegasus World Cup (G1) winner White Abarrio, Grade 1 winners Casa Creed, Medina Spirit, and Speech, and graded stakes winners Federal Judge, Midnight Stroll, and St. Joe Bay.
The 2025 OBS January Winter Mixed Sale includes mares in foals to proven sires and up and coming stallions such as Complexity, Early Voting, Girvin, Independence Hall, Khozan, Leinster, Magic On Tap, Pappacap, Simplification, The Factor, Tiz the Law, Two Phil’s, Volatile, and Win Win Win.
Among the first-crop stallions represented with yearlings in the catalogue are OBS graduate and multiple Grade 1 winner Colonel Liam, OBS graduate and champion Corniche, Drain the Clock, Epicenter, Golden Pal, Greatest Honour, Mandaloun, Mind Control, Mystic Guide, Mo Donegal, Nashville, and Roadster. The catalogue also offers yearlings by such top sires as Candy Ride (ARG), McKinzie, Munnings, Oscar Performance, Speightstown, Vekoma and Yaupon.
Francis Vanlangendonck of Summerfield, which led all consignors at the 2024 Winter Mixed Sale by gross, said he expects the discerning nature of the Thoroughbred marketplace to continue in the new year.
“Your quality stuff is going to sell very well. The mares that haven’t produced runners are going to be tough and the yearlings with vetting issues are going to be tough. But that’s the case everywhere,” Vanlangendonck said. “What Ocala has is a built-in market. A lot of people show up because they live here and they’re in the business, and that showed in October during the hurricane. A ton of people showed up to buy horses and we had a much better sale that we thought we were going to have. People poured in here even though we changed the time; we changed the date and they still showed up. We’re in a pretty good spot that way because we have people who will buy a lot of these horses who live here.”
The catalog pages for all entries are available via the OBS website at obssales.com and in printed form at the sales.
The Sale will be streamed live via the OBS website as well as the DRF, TDN, BloodHorse, Pastthewire, and Hipismo.net websites.
OBS again offers Online Bidding during the January Sale. Buyers will be able to go to the OBS website and register to gain bidding approval, then access the OBS Bidding Screen with their credentials. For complete information on registration and online bidding please go to the OBS website: obs-online-bidding.
Current information about OBS sales, consignors and graduates is now also available via social media sites Facebook and Twitter. A link on the homepage directs users to either site.
Sales results will be available on the OBS website, updated frequently during each session of the Sale. In addition, the latest news regarding OBS graduates, sales schedules, nominations, credit requests, travel information and other news relevant to OBS consignors and customers is also available. E-mail should be addressed to obs@obssales.com.
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Photos for editorial use from the OBS January Winter Mixed sale will be available here.