Nyquist Filly Sells for $2 Million to Top OBS March Sale Day 2

Wavertree Stables made a strong case for the week's best consignment performance when Hip 372, a bay filly by Nyquist out of Smooth and Savvy (by Lucky Pulpit), sold for $2 million to Killora/Linton acting as agent for Boyd Racing on March 11, resetting the top of the OBS March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale standings. Hannah Jennings of Killora Stud signed the ticket on behalf of Randy and Jenny Boyd after what was described as a protracted bidding battle.

The filly, bred by Cannon Thoroughbreds in Kentucky and catalogued as OBSMAR Hip 372, had been purchased for $300,000 at Keeneland last September. She more than justified that investment at the under-tack show, posting a co-fastest eighth-of-a-mile breeze of :09 3/5. Jennings left no doubt about why Boyd Racing went deep on the filly. "She was just an absolute queen the whole week," Jennings said. "She was super professional. Obviously her stride was fantastic on the track. And physically she's everything we could ever want. Nyquist is one of our favorites. He's an elite horse and Ciaran sold two Grade 1 winning Nyquist fillies out of OBS, so hopefully she can be the third."

Those two previous Nyquist fillies, Tenma and Cavalieri, were both Grade 1 winners consigned by Ciaran Dunne at OBS April auctions. Where Hip 372 will be trained remains undecided, with Jennings noting plans are still to be determined.

The $2 million sale was the second seven-figure transaction Wavertree turned in during the first two days of the sale. Hip 88, a Nyquist colt purchased for $170,000 at Keeneland last September, had sold for $1.2 million to Morplay Racing and Marquee Bloodstock during the opening session on March 10. That colt breezed an eighth in :09 4/5, a step behind his stablemate's co-fastest mark.

Ciaran Dunne, who operates Wavertree Stables alongside Amy Dunne and has long maintained a close partnership with Paul Reddam, the owner who campaigned Nyquist to victory in the 2016 Grade 1 Kentucky Derby, did not undersell what the week meant. "That's beyond all expectations," Dunne said. "You hope, but someone always tells me, hope is not a good strategy. She's by probably one of the top five stallions in the country, if not the top three. She's a beautiful physical, she had an unbelievable work. She vetted clean, and if you can't sell her, you just need to quit selling."

The broader sale numbers backed up the energy in the ring. Through two sessions of the three-day Ocala sale, 295 horses sold for $51,336,500, with a two-day average of $174,022 and a median of $90,000. At the same point in 2025, 269 horses had grossed $39,588,000, and the final 2025 average was $152,351 with a median of $70,000. Day 2 alone produced three seven-figure transactions, pushing the total to six horses over the sale's threshold in just two sessions.