Miss Listo, a stakes-winning eight-year-old Southern Halo mare, topped the second session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. fall mixed sale on Tuesday.

OBSC reported across-the-board declines on day two, which was the first of two open sessions and followed Monday’s consignor preferred session. The sale was reduced from five days, including two preferred sessions, last year to three sessions this year.

OBSC reported 150 horses as sold for total receipts of $824,100, an 18% decline compared with $1,004,400 in gross sales during the first open session last year. Average price declined 21.2% from $6,975 last year to $5,494 and median dropped 40% from $5,000 to $3,000 this year. The buy-back rate was 30.5%, compared with 32% during the first open session in 2007.

Off the Hook, agent for Agropecuraria Unida, secured Miss Listo from the consignment of Janie Roper, agent.

The Southern Halo mare is out of multiple stakes winner Regal Princess, by Royal and Regal. Winner of the 2002 Miss Houston Stakes, Miss Listo is a half sister to stakes winner Regal Approval and stakes-placed winner With a Princess, dam of Grade 2 winners The Daddy and With a City.

Miss Listo is in foal to Roar of the Tiger.

Carlos S. Moore, agent, secured the second-highest priced horse of the session when he went to $30,000 to purchase Halo Sun, a seven-year-old Southern Halo mare in foal to High Fly.

Consigned by Beth Bayer, agent, Halo Sun is from the female family of European Horse of the Year and sire St. Jovite; champion Farda Amiga; graded stakes winner L’Carriere, runner-up in the 1995 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1); and multiple Grade 2 winners and sires Salem Drive and Lac Ouimet.

Don Mattox went to $25,000 to purchase the highest-priced weanling of the session, a bay colt by Teton Forest. Consigned by Sue Vacek, agent, the colt is out of the winning Gilded Time mare Time Honored.

While the economic indicators were down during the first open session, the declines were not as drastic as in the preferred session, which closed with a buy-back rate of 52.3% and a 31.5% dip in average price compared with the two preferred sessions in 2007.

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