Joseph O'Farrell Memorial Award

Joseph O'Farrell Memorial Award was presented to consignors
Stuart Morris and Rubin M. Sanchez’s
Really and Truly Thoroughbreds, who sold
Grade I Florida-bred stakes winner Speed Boat
Beach.
Consigned by Stuart Morris to the 2021
Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company October yearling
sale, Speed Boat Beach was bought for
$12,000 by Rubin M. Sanchez. Really and Truly
Thoroughbreds then consigned the colt to the
2022 OBS March 2-year-olds in-training sale,
where Three Amigos bought him for $200,000.
Bred by Richard Heysek’s Caperlane Farm,
Speed Boat Beach won the Malibu Stakes (G1)
and was second in the Santa Anita Sprint
Championship Stakes (G2).
Raced by Michael
E. Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman,
Speed Boat Beach won $320,000 on the season.
The Bob Baffert trainee was named the
2023 Florida-bred champion 3-year-old colt
and champion male sprinter.
The Joseph M. O’Farrell Memorial Award is
presented annually by OBS to the consignors
of the year’s best Florida-bred racehorse
offered at an OBS auction. The award is named
after Joseph M. O’Farrell, who was part of the
nine-man syndicate that established Ocala
Stud in 1956. O’Farrell was also a pioneer in
establishing public Thoroughbred auctions in
Florida and was a founding member of OBS.