Jackie's Warrior Filly Sells for Record $2.3 Million at OBS Spring Sale

A :09 3/5 work turned Hip 570 into the sale’s headline act, and the hammer came down at $2.3 million. That price set a new high-water mark for fillies at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale and pushed the Jackie's Warrior filly into the top tier of April juvenile-sale history.

Dermot Farrington bought the filly on behalf of owner Fitriani Hay near the end of the second session, paying for the kind of prospect buyers spend seven figures on only when the clock and the body both flash. She was the first juvenile to cover an eighth-mile in :09 3/5 during the April under-tack show, and only six horses in the entire session hit that time. Add a sharp physical to that move, and the market did what it often does with a fast filly by a fashionable sire: it went all the way up.

That sire profile matters. Jackie's Warrior was a five-time Grade I winner, the 2021 Eclipse champion male sprinter, and the kind of horse breeders still trust when immediate dirt speed is the goal. He stands the 2026 breeding season at Spendthrift Farm for $25,000, a stud fee that suddenly looks modest next to what his stock can bring when they show serious zip at public auction. This filly looked like the sort of horse buyers think can be on the track early and on the front end right away.

The pedigree behind the speed is just as convincing. Hip 570 is out of Brazen Persuasion, a graded stakes-winning Indian Charlie mare who dead-heated in the 2013 Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. Brazen Persuasion has produced six winners from six starters, including stakes-placed Ruggs, and her own broodmare record had already reached $62,000 at Keeneland in November 2024. The filly was bred in Kentucky by Fred W. Hertrich III and John D. Fielding and bought as a yearling for $140,000 at Keeneland September 2025, so this was a massive return on a horse that has done nothing but strengthen with every step.

For Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds, the result landed close to home. Dean DeRenzo had every reason to treat the sale as a statement piece, and the market agreed. OBS cataloged 1,224 horses for the April 14-17 auction, but this one was the loudest number on the board. It came against a backdrop that already favored quality, after OBS said its 2025 Spring Sale produced nine seven-figure horses and a record average of $138,709, while the 2025 March Sale set a gross record of $72,050,000 including private sales. The message from this ring was plain: if a filly can fly and finish the job physically, buyers will pay like she might be the next major juvenile star.