The Ocala Breeders Sales Company's Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, featuring a catalogue of over 1,200 horses, opens its four-day run Tuesday in Central Florida with bidding beginning at 10:30 a.m.“I think it is the 2-year-old sale of the world,” OBS Director of Sales Tod Wojciechowski said of the Spring sale. “That's what it is looked at as. The amount of international traffic, the amount of domestic traffic, has just been tremendous and continues to branch out.”Carrying on from last fall's record-setting yearling auctions, the juvenile sales season opened on a high note of its own with the OBS March sale a month ago. That auction produced a record-tying seven million-dollar 2-year-olds, as well as its highest-ever gross and increases in both average and median.Asked if he expected to see those positive trends continue this coming week, Wojciechowski said, “We are optimistic. We feel good about the horses that are on the grounds and we hope that the momentum that we had in March will carry forward.”The Spring sale has lofty standards of its own to live up to in 2026. The auction with the catalogue that perennially has “something for everyone” has set new record averages during its last three renewals. A year ago, 637 horses sold through the ring for a gross of $88,761,500. The average was $139,343–up 7.1% from the record figure set in 2024–and the median was $65,000.“The reason the sale continues to get better and better is because the quality of horses that the consignors bring just step up year after year,” Wojciechowski said. “I could see us taking another step in that direction this year. Here we sit with four horses on the Derby trail–three of them out of the April sale. The quality of the horses that continue to come out of the 2-year-old sales here just continues to get better.”The trio of April graduates heading to Louisville for the first Saturday in May include GIII Tampa Bay Derby winner and GI Curlin Florida Derby runner-up The Puma (Essential Quality), who was purchased for $150,000 out of the 2025 Spring sale; GI Toyota Blue Grass Stakes winner Futher Ado (Gun Runner), acquired for $550,000; and GIII Southwest Stakes winner and GI Arkansas Derby runner-up Silent Tactic (Tacitus), purchased for $500,000 last year.OBS hosted a six-session under-tack preview of the Spring sale last week and, despite dodging some raindrops, the show was a success, according to Wojciechowski.“All in all, we got extremely lucky,” he said. “It could have been worse. Places that were only a couple of hours away got five and six inches of rain and we had some light drizzle most of the time. There were short periods of time where it rained a little harder. But we truthfully got lucky with the weather and we are happy that we were able to dodge that weather bullet.”Through the six sessions, six juveniles shared the furlong bullet time of :9 3/5, while five had the fastest quarter-mile time of :20 2/5.“The grandstand was full for the under-tack show and the barn area is full now,” Wojciechowski said. “It's been very active. We have been getting plenty of phone calls from people planning to arrive soon. We are looking forward to a good sale.”The Spring sale will be held Tuesday through Friday with sessions beginning each day at 10:30 a.m.The post ‘The 2-Year-Old Sale of the Year’: OBS Spring Sale Starts Tuesday appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.