For Immediate Release
Multiple stakes placed Dream Concert elicited a final bid of $110,000 from Tiger Racing to top the OBSOnline January Sale for 2-year-olds and Horses of Racing Age.
The January digital auction was conducted from Jan. 23-30. It marks the third auction held under the OBSOnline banner.
Consigned as Hip 425 by trainer Kathleen O’Connell, agent, Dream Concert is out of the stakes-winning Concerto mare Spanish Concert, who has two winners from as many foals to race. The 5-year-old daughter of Jess’s Dream has four wins from 19 career starts with $202,930 in earnings.
Bred by James Michael Chicklo, Dream Concert is nominated to the Grade 3 Endeavour Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs Feb. 1. She most recently finished third in the $100,000 Wayward Lass Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs Jan. 11 where she was beaten just a nose for place honors.
The top selling newly turned 3-year-old was Hip 403, a daughter of Practical Joke who sold for $46,000 to Daniel McGreevy. Consigned by Wavertree Stables, the filly is out of the Quality Road mare Happy Road and is from the female family of Grade 1 winner Bustin Stones. She breezed in 32.1 during the optional under tack show.
As of Jan. 31, the OBSOnline January sale generated $273,200 in gross receipts from 12 horses sold. The average was $22,767 with the median coming in at $7,500. Nine horses failed to meet their reserve.