David O’Farrell serves as manager of Ocala Stud – the farm that his grandfather, Joe O’Farrell, started in 1956 and is currently the oldest active Thoroughbred farm in Florida. The farm is among the leading stallion, breeding, and training operations in the nation and sells its entire crop each year at the two-year-old in training sales. The farm currently stands seven stallions, owns approximately 50 broodmares, and breaks approximately 100 yearlings each year for clients in addition to the farm’s crop. Ocala Stud sold its first entire crop of juveniles in 1958, a tradition that the farm continues to this day. Ocala Stud has bred and sold more than 160 stakes winners to date and was named TOBA’s 2012 National Breeder of the Year. A graduate of Erskine College, Mr. O’Farrell is involved in all aspects of Ocala Stud’s operations including breeding, training, two-year-old consignment, stallion management, stallion season sales, stallion recruitment, broodmare acquisition, advertising, etc. He is a director of Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company and Keeneland, a member of Breeders’ Cup Limited and The Jockey Club, and chairman of TOBA and member of TOBA’s American Graded Stakes Committee. He also represents TOBA on the NTRA board of directors. Mr. O’Farrell and his wife Allison have three children Maggie, Annie, and John.
