Ocala in July

I though I was going a little crazy. I just did not find may interesting ideas in the Timonium catalog. I have maybe 5 stong ideas from the 560+ plus horses. Some of those might be too expensive looking at the yearling prices.

I looked through the Ocala catalog (about 1000 horses) this morning and found about 20 strong ideas. That is very similar to what I had for the June Ocala sale. Why the difference?

I heard a leading pinhooker, Randy Bradshaw, do an interview with Steve Byk. He hinted that consigners were nervous about how Fasig-Tipton was handling the pandemic planning, so he was keeping his better horses in Florida.

I also talked with two other partnership people who presented the idea that the Poly/Tapeta surface at Ocala was not the preferred surface of true dirt horses. Maybe my leaning toward turf and dirt pedigrees means more of those horse will be found in Ocala. Maybe it was all the Maryland and Penn bred in the Timonium sale. Most likely I an just crazy.

My ideas for Ocala:

1. Macleans Music 773, 825
2. Tonalist 972, 275
3. Ironicus 129, 521
4. Air Force Blue 252
5. Carpe Diem 106
6. Flintshire 168, 397
7. Jack Milton 474
8. Noble Mission 587
9. Orb 257, 281, 539
10. Palice Malice 77
11. Sky Mesa 674
12. Sumer Front 25, 90, 130
13. Super Saver 756
14. Tourist 162
15. Upstart 860
16. Vancouver 562, 939
17. Violence 645, 686
18. Wicked Strong 402, 544