Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. stretched to $140,000 Wednesday to secure a session-topping colt (hip339) by Pappacap on the final day of the OBS October Yearling Sale.On the second day of the two-day sale, OBS sold 129 horses for a total of $3,093,500 with an average of $23,981 and a median of $15,000. Last year, the same session saw 149 horses changes hands for $3,947,100 with an average of $26,491 and a median of $19,000.“Before [hip 339] we bought some horses that were inexpensive,” Joseph Jr said. “We like those prices because you can never go wrong with those prices. This one we had to reach on. But it's all over the place. I always feel like this October sale is a good sale for the buyer. You walked away–this one we had to press on–but I feel like you walk away like it's on the buyers' side.”Bred and consigned in Florida by Summerfield Sales Agency (Francis and Barbara Vanlangendonck), he is the fourth foal out of a young winning Uncaptured half-sister to SW It's High Time (Gone Astray), a mare who produced a three-time Venezuelan champion in Special Element (Copper Bullet). Two more of the mare's half-siblings are stakes horses in Let Them Watch (Maximus Mischief) and Wiggle An' Wine (Awesome Slew).“I buy them all and then sell them after,” Joseph Jr. said. “We had to reach for this one. This one is the most expensive one I've bought this sale. We liked him a lot, really wanted to get him and obviously there was competition to get him. Deservedly so because this horse is a really nice horse, very smooth, the way he carried himself. It seems like he's going to continue to get better.”Pappacap, who sold the day's second highest-priced yearling during Tuesday's opening session at $120,000, stood for $12,500 this year in Kentucky at Walmac Farm. He also sired the day's third-highest priced hip Wednesday with another colt who brought $80,000.Pappacap | Sarah Andrew“Obviously Pappacap was precocious, he won at Del Mar (the Best Pal) and was second in the Juvenile and then he carried on to run in the Florida Derby against White Abarrio so we're very familiar with the horse,” Joseph Jr. continued. “He was a solid horse and you feel like he'll make a stallion. We're banking on it because we've bought a lot of them. We bought them because to the eye, the fit the look that we want.”The Vanlangendoncks, who breed and consign under their Summerfield name, were involved in this colt from the start.“We knew that people liked him but you never know what people are going to pay,” Francis Vanlangendonck said. “Obviously, we're very happy with what he brought. There were a lot of people interested in him and he looked just like his mother, and she could really run. We were going to sell him as a weanling but decided to wait and put him here, hoping he would stand out and that they would like the Pappacaps. I've seen a lot of (the Pappacaps). I did the breeding and bought the mare for Rustlewood Farm (which owned and bred Pappacap). Very involved with him, went to all his races with his owners. But people really like Pappacaps because they're all really athletic. I thought he could sell well. He brought more than we thought, which is fabulous. We're thrilled.”The day's top filly, a daughter of Oscar Perforamnce (hip 311) who is a half-sister to SW/GSP Aspenite (Constitution) and out of a half-sister to MGSW/G1SP Keertana (Johar) and MGSW/G1SP Snow Top Mountain (Najran), also brought six figures from Gary Barber. Bred and consigned by Glen Hill Farm, Craig Bernick indicated that she would be kept and sent to trainer Mark Case.“I thought she was a nice filly,” Bernick said. “Tom Proctor has trained most of the black type winners in the family, Snow Top Mountain, he trained Keertana …they were all different shape and sized horses. This horse, the mother couldn't run, but her first foal was good and then she picked up another winner at Belmont on Sunday in the 2 year old race. It's a good family. I thought she was a nice horse. Other than the Uncle Mo, every horse we brought were by stallions we have shares in and Oscar Performance is a great stallion. I thought more people would want to see her. Mark Casse saw her for the first time today and loved her. I told a few people the reserve was $100,000 and he bought her. I would have thought she would have made more but the main thing is she's going to a very good trainer and a very good owner. We still have the mother, we have the sister and a lot of the family. For us, the main thing is that they go and run. I know $100,000 is a lot for this sale, but I didn't think it was a lot for that horse. But they made a good buy and she's going to a good person.”Saffie Joseph Jr finished as the day's leading buy with eight secured for $384,000 while Abbie Road Farm (Lisa McGreevy) was the day's top consignor, selling 24 for $407,000.The post Pappacap Shines As OBS October Yearling Sale Concludes appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.