Ten days ago, Scott Kintz of Six K's Training & Sales watched Further Ado crush the Blue Grass Stakes (G1) at Keeneland by 11 lengths, making him the consignment's first grade 1 winner, after they sold him for $550,000 in April at the 2025 Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale.
"It's our first one, and what a first one to have," Kintz said. "And on the Derby trail, it's not like we got it in a four-horse, rained-off-the-turf race. It's just cool."
Further Ado is expected to be one of the favorites when the field enters the starting gate in the Kentucky Derby (G1) May 2 at Churchill Downs. Kintz opened Six K's Training & Sales in 2019 after serving as the farm manager for Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm and spending nearly 30 years in the Thoroughbred industry.
In the middle of their Kentucky Derby excitement, they have shifted their focus to the OBS Spring sale. On April 15, they will send three fillies into the ring that worked a furlong in :10.
Hip 320, already named Flirty Minx, is by grade 1 winner Mitole and out of the Noble Mission mare Top Mission, who has had two racing-age foals, and both are winners. Most notable of the two is the Vekoma filly, Vixen. She was the winner of the Herecomesthebride Stakes (G3T), and was second in the Natalma Stakes (G1).
"She came out of her work tremendously, and she actually trained this morning and went really well," Kintz said. "She's a very nice filly and very fast."
Hip 375 is a daughter of Jackie's Warrior and is the first foal out of the Nyquist mare, Well Remembered. Her second dam, Unforgotten, was graded stakes placed and is the dam of Audrey's Time, who was third in the Falls City Stakes (G2), and Silverpocketsfull, who was third in the Ashland Stakes (G1).
Hip 485 is by Maxfield out of the Runaway Groom mare Autumn Wedding. She has had nine winners on the track, including listed stakes winners Tony's Tapit and Autumn's Blitz.
"She's actually the best horse I've got in the barn," Kintz said of Hip 375. "She's a beast of a horse. She's not huge, but she's big. She's definitely got a little Nyquist in her. She got a little size to her. She's very pretty. She's really just exceptional."
Uniquely, in the days following the under-tack show, Kintz will send his horses back to the track.
"The one thing I do that most others don't is they go back to the track for me after the breeze show," Kintz said. "I give them a couple of days off, and then they go right back into their normal routine. I won't train them the day they actually sell, just because I know they've a big day ahead of them, but we train them up until then. I think they show better. I think they just do better staying in their routine."
The Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale begins at 10 a.m. ET and goes from April 14-17. More information on the sale can be found here.
