Finding Horse’s Names

After selecting 20 horses from the Ocala June sale to watch, the obvious but puzzling question was how find the new name for each Hip#. Best I can tell OBS does not report the new name for each hip# sold.

I thought I would just have to watch the PP’s for all two year old races and hope I caught each one as they entered. That seemed wildly inefficient.

Luckily, there is a better way. The trick is equineline.com. They have a free Auction Search function. Your can enter the name of any sire and will show you all the horses by that sire sold in 2020. Quickly scan down the list of dams and find your horse.

For example, I know that Dare to Dream bought a Tapiture filly (hip#162) at the Ocala sale out of a mare named Okie Blond. To find out if that horse has a name go here:

http://www.equineline.com/Free-Auction-Results.cfm?upsellReferenceNumber=&upsellHorseName=&upsellBreedType=&upsellHorseType=&upsellYOB=&lookupAuctionResults=true&tempHorseType=&tempSale=ALL&tempYear=%23form.year%23&search_type=SIRE&reference_number=9064185&horse_name=Tonalist&horse_type=2&year=2020&sale=ALL&consignor_id=&consignor_name=&buyer_id=&buyer_name=&price_range_low=&price_range_high=&submitImage=&availableConsignors=&availableBuyers=

Type in Tapiture, search for 2yr olds in 2020

The report shows a list of the 19 Tapiture offspring sold in 2020. The second name on the list reports on the mare Okie Blonde, the new name is shown as Blonde on Tap.

Of the 19 Tapiture 2 yr-olds sold, 9 have new names, and 10 remain unnamed as of June 20th.

You learn a little more each day.

Eventually I will have to become an Equineline customer. The one service they have that seems available nowhere else is a report of the results of every time a mare is bred and what the sales result was.

For example, before I buy a new horse produced by the mare Okie Blonde, I would like to know what each here children had sold for in the past.

For that privilege it seems you need to pay Equineline $347/year. Nobody said the horse business is cheap.