Among 17 Furlong Bullets, Omaha Beach Filly Has Fastest Quarter-Mile at OBS Under-Tack Opener

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With 17 juveniles sharing the fastest furlong breeze of :9 4/5, a filly by Omaha Beach (hip 74) separated herself from the pack with a nifty pedigree update and a bullet quarter-mile work in :20 4/5 during Monday's first under-tack preview session for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale.Hip 74 is consigned by Tom McCrocklin, who signed the ticket to acquire the filly for $400,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton October sale.“She's a very nice filly, always has been,” McCrocklin said Monday. “She's a big, imposing, physical filly. She has a beautiful stride and she galloped out really, really well. I couldn't be happier with her.”The dark bay filly is out of Ready for Charm (More Than Ready), a daughter of graded-placed Deb's Charm (Silver Charm) and a half-sister to the dam of Percy's Bar (Upstart), who won the GI Ashland Stakes at Keeneland last Friday.“She's got the whole package, in my opinion,” McCrocklin said of the filly. “She's got a great physical presence and she's by a really good, up-and-coming stallion. The female family is very, very solid and she showed up on breeze day, which you need to do or else you're going to get your feelings hurt.”Omaha Beach filly selling at Fasig-Tipton last October | Fasig-TiptonConsignor Randy Miles sent out three of Monday's bullet furlong workers.Leading off the trio was a colt by Army Mule (hip 110), who turned in his :9 4/5 work just minutes into the session. Purchased by Faris Breeding for $40,000 at Keeneland last September, the bay is out of Saintly Sister (Saint Liam).“He is awesome,” Miles said of the youngster. “He is a big and lanky, really just a true professional. We've loved him for the last month or two when we started really asking him to breeze. He's been a star. We just didn't want to mess him up. And I was just so proud when the :9 4/5 came up. He came by me on the backside and he was still rolling.”Later in the set, a filly by Maclean's Music (hip 117) from Miles's consignment matched that :9 4/5 mark. The $60,000 Keeneland September purchase is out of Sarah Joe (Hard Spun) and from the family of Grade I winner Spain.“I don't even have any stories for her,” Miles said. “She doesn't get into trouble. You don't know she's in the barn. She's just what you want in a little girl. Just perfection.”Rounding out the group was a filly by Vekoma (hip 26). Purchased for $125,000 at Fasig-Tipton last October, she is out of Pink Cashmere (Eskendereya).“She is just a really fast, immature kind of filly who is still going to take some time to grow up,” Miles said of the juvenile. “Just like Vekoma, she is very eager and willing to train and leave it all on the track. She got a little bout of sickness in January, so she was a little behind, so it was always a question of whether we would make April. But she was always so dirty fast, we decided to just go ahead and take her and she didn't let us down.”Miles added, “All three of those horses are back in their stalls and they came out of the breeze in good shape.”Ciaran Dunne's Wavertree Stables sent out a pair of bullet furlong workers Monday. A colt by Practical Joke (hip 14) set the mark early in the day. Out of Pearl Pendant (Mineshaft), the dark bay is a half-brother to multiple stakes winner Pearl Tiara (Majestic Harbor). Purchased by Dunne and Paul Reddam's Red Wings pinhooking partnership for $115,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale, hip 14 is named Be a Clown. Dunne said the youngster was “aptly named.”“We bought him off of Shawhan Place and they just raise a good horse,” Dunne said. “They raise them the old way. They raise them sort of tough. He came into the sale and he'd just run through a fence. He had cuts and scrapes all over him and he's been pretty much that way since we got him. If you can get in trouble, he's going to find a way to do it.”Dunne continued, “He's a lovely horse. He's happy and inquisitive. We went up there with high hopes and he delivered.”Matching the bullet mark for Wavertree later in the day was a filly by Charlatan (hip 175). Out of Sociable (Run Away and Hide), she is a half-sister to GI Gamely Stakes winner Keeper ofthe Stars (Midnight Lute). Sociable is a half-sister to multiple Grade I winner The Factor (War Front).The juvenile was purchased by Mike Akers, as agent for Bregman Family Racing, for $130,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale.“She was a little bit parts and pieces,” Dunne said of the filly as a yearling. “When they bought her, they said if she does all the things we think she can do physically, she will be a beautiful 2-year-old. And she really has. She has grown up and filled out. Everything has come together. And it's a fabulous pedigree. There will be horses that breeze faster or gallop out faster, but there won't be many in there that are a sister to a Grade I winner from the immediate family of a stallion. For my mind, she is a bit of a collector's item at a 2-year-old sale. She is a filly who looks like she can have a big future and when she's finished on the racetrack, you'd imagine she's a filly that anybody would love to have in their broodmare band.”Also sharing the furlong bullet Monday were: a colt by Life is Good (hip 15) consigned by de Meric Sales; a colt by Nashville (hip 16) consigned by Envision Equine; a filly by Roadster (hip 17) consigned by Top Line Sales; a filly by Central Banker (hip 20) consigned by Omar Ramirez Bloodstock; a colt by Tale of Silence (hip 32) consigned by Lucan Bloodstock; a colt by Good Magic (hip 38) consigned by McKathan Bros. Sales; a colt by Liam's Map (hip 43) consigned by Scanlon Training & Sales; a filly by Yaupon (hip 75) consigned by Julie Davies LLC; a colt by War Front (hip 122) consigned by Camelot Acres Racing and Sales; a filly by Yaupon (hip 123) consigned by Niall Brennan Stables; a colt by Honor A. P. (hip 133) consigned by Bryan Ford Training Stable; and a filly by Authentic (hip 151) consigned by Kings Equine.Wavertree had three horses work throughout Monday's session and Dunne said conditions over the OBS synthetic surface remained consistent throughout the day.“Whatever people want to say about the synthetic, I think it is the most consistent surface from start to finish that we've ever dealt with,” he said. “When I hear people saying, I wish we could go back to dirt, they are not old enough to remember what the dirt was like about 1:00 on an afternoon in the April sale. You had no chance. Once it started to dry out and get loose, it was over. Right before our filly worked :10 1/5 [Monday at 12:47 p.m.], one worked :9 4/5. I think it's as consistent and fair as you're ever going to get for a breeze show.”With rain coming down late in the afternoon and forecasted into Tuesday, Miles is hoping conditions remain consistent throughout the week.“It's raining here now,” he said. “So we hope we have a fair track the rest of the week. But today was a great day. It was kind of cool for an April sale and conditions seemed good.”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 begins each day at 10:30 a.m.The post Among 17 Furlong Bullets, Omaha Beach Filly Has Fastest Quarter-Mile at OBS Under-Tack Opener appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.