Zedan Racing, with bloodstock agent Donato Lanni, zeroed in on one horse during the April 16th second session of the 2025 OBS Spring sale and went to $1.15 million to land him.
“He’s the horse we wanted to go home with,” said Lanni about Hip 508, a powerfully built chestnut son of Ashford Stud’s second-crop sire Tiz the Law. “He was one of the top colts. It’s hard to separate them all, but this is the one we gravitated to. He comes from a deep family. He’s just a cool dude, really cool, real quiet, really, really, fast.” The colt worked a quarter-mile in a sparkling :20 3/5 during the under tack show. “He had a great work, came back really good. We were really happy with that,” Lanni said.
So far, Lanni said the trade has been good at OBS. “The top end of the market is always tough,” he said. “The middle market is a buyer’s sale. Prices have been very good in the middle market for buyers. It’s a good market, good horses rise to the top, and this colt was one of them.”
Tom McCrocklin consigned Hip 508, who he bought for $150,000 during Fasig-Tipton’s The Saratoga Sale out of the Bluegrass Thoroughbred Services consignment. The colt was bred in Kentucky by Merriebelle Stable out of Taboo , a winning daughter of Forestry and multiple stakes producer. The mare has already produced stakes winner Let My People Go (Pioneerof the Nile), grade 3-placed winner Der Lu (Orb ), and stakes-placed winner Smartly Agree (Smart Strike). Taboo is a half sister to grade 1 winners Creative Cause and Vexatious .