On a day where the rain gave way to cloudy skies and swirling winds in Ocala, Florida, two more 2-year-olds put up a sharp :9 3/5 time during Thursday's fourth under-tack preview show at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training.First of the pair was a New York-bred colt (hip 805) by Mind Control from the consignment of Grassroots Training & Sales.“He's an athletic, nice moving horse,” said David McKathan of Grassroots Training & Sales, which he co-owns along with Jody Mihalic. “We were pretty sure he was going to work fast. He prepped really well. He's a pretty straightforward horse. (Mind Control) gets a decent bodied horse and this guy is a New York bred. We like the New York breds, but this colt is really going to do well for somebody anywhere.”The time was equaled shortly after by a McKinzie filly (hip 754) for consignor Ciaran Dunne of Wavertree Stables.“We didn't go up there expecting her to work slowly,” Dunne said. “If someone had said, 'Is she going to go in :9 3/5?', you would never have know. But when she did it, we weren't surprised. She's always advertised herself as that kind. The biggest feeling is of relief that everything went right. Because there's so much that goes on [to get these horses] from here to there. For these young horses to go down there and do what they do, gallop out the way we want them to gallop out, be in straight lines and such. They're going to say there was a tailwind today and that it helped. But also, by the same token, for young horses to go down the backstretch there on their own, have the wind whistling in their ears, is a testament to the job I think all the consignors do in preparing these horses.”Dunne was complimentary of the track conditions in Ocala and how the grounds have held up with despite nearly 1.50″ of rain since Tuesday.“They're testing conditions for any horse, but especially for young horses,” Dunne said. “It's amazing that we've had this number of horses do what they've done and so professionally. It speaks volumes to the 2-year-old consignors. And that's the beauty of the safe track. If we'd had a dirt track [this week], it would've been chaos. But we had horses breeze in the first set, middle set, last set on all four days of this and I don't think we've had a horse yet that came back and we said 'that one got an unfair track.' It's been very, very fair.”Three juveniles tied for the fastest quarter-mile of the day at :20 3/5 including a filly by Nashville (hip 723), one of several speedy runners this week consigned by Omar Ramirez Bloodstock.“I've had a few amazing days,” Ramirez said. “I opened with a :9.4 and I closed with a :9.4. And I have a filly by Nashville that worked :20.3 today, she's done everything right. It's been a great, great day for me. I've been having probably the best undertack show in my life. I've had a lot of people already coming to the barn. My clients gave me an opportunity [to have a great sale] with really good horses. It's a really good group. It's tough for me to say, 'Oh, I like this one better or that one' because all of my horses are performing really well in this sale. They're doing everything right. It's going to be hard for somebody to ask me a favorite because I've got such a good feeling about so many of them.”Crude Velocity | BenoitOne of those fillies, a daughter of Airdrie Stud's first-crop stallion Highly Motivated (hip 269), picked up a timely update this past weekend when her half-brother, 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Crude Velocity (Beau Liam) won impressively at Santa Anita and will now point towards the GII Pat Day Mile at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day.The family is no stranger to OBS as Ramirez consigned Crude Velocity himself during last year's June 2-Year-Olds in Training and Horses of Racing Age Sale where he threw down an impressive quarter-mile time of :20.1 before selling for $250,000.“She's a really nice filly,” Ramirez said of that colt's younger half-sister who worked earlier in the week. “She's not as big as he was, but she's just as fast. I was expecting her to [breeze] in :10 flat or :9.4. [She] galloped out really good too. [Crude Velocity] could be a special horse and she's a nice filly too, I really like her. She has a lot of talent. A lot of this speed is coming from the mare because she was acting really fast on the farm too.”Crude Velocity was part of Beau Liam's first crop last year and Ramirez pointed out that several of his best workers Thursday have been by first-crop sires.“There are a lot of good [new] sires here,” Ramirez said. “I have a Speaker's Corner colt that's pretty exciting and an Epicenter filly that I really like too. I have a nice group of horses here. I really think those freshman sires are ones everybody likes.”The under-tack show continues through Saturday with sessions beginning each day at 8 a.m. The OBS Spring sale will be held next Tuesday through Friday. Bidding commences each day at 10:30 a.m.The post Speed In No Short Supply At OBS Thursday appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.