Justify Filly Sells to Speedway for OBS June Record $1.4 Million

Justify filly sells for $1.4 million at OBS 2-year-olds sale

Even before he left the sales pavilion Wednesday afternoon amid well wishes and congratulatory declarations, consignor Jesse Hoppel carried with him a heightened level of sentiment regarding the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. June 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale. “Growing up in this industry, there have been times where this sale is what turned our family from red to black for the year,” Hoppel said in the midst of trying to abs…

Daughter of Justify Sells for $1.4 Million to Set OBS June Record

Even before he left the sales pavilion the afternoon of June 17 amid well wishes and congratulatory declarations, consignor Jesse Hoppel carried with him a heightened level of sentiment where the results of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. June Two-Year-Olds in Training and Horses of Racing Age Sale were concerned. “Growing up in this industry, there have been times where this sale is what turned our family from red to black for the year,” Hoppel s…

Justify Filly Sells to Speedway for OBS June Record $1.4 Million

Marette Farrell outbattled Donato Lanni in a war of phone bids at opposite ends of the pavilion to acquire a filly by Justify (hip 428) for an OBS June record $1.4 million on behalf of Peter Fluor and K.C. Weiner's Speedway Stable. Farrell did her bidding on the phone with OBS's Andrew Fernung sitting in the back of the pavilion, while Lanni was on the phone with Wade Cunningham in the auction stand. Justin Holmberg, sitting directly next to Cun…