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TIMONIUM, MD - Midway through Monday's first session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale in Timonium, one bloodstock agent quipped, "Turns out untimed works, work." The final figures of the auction's opening session--conducted a week after the company's first untimed under-tack preview show--seemed to bear the sentiment out, with the session's average and median concluding well ahead of last year's sale record-setting figures. "It was a tremendous start to the Fasig Midlantic May 2-Year-Olds in Training sale," Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning said Monday evening. "There were pretty...

"As a baby, he was mean," recalls Vickie Hewitt. "When we were prepping him for sale, as a short yearling, he would charge the door, ears back, rearing up." How they handled him on Cambrey Farm, back then, may have a lot to do with the fact that Trendsetter (Modernist) heads to the GIII Peter Pan Stakes on Saturday as a breakout winner of the GIII Lexington Stakes. "We didn't step in there and start yelling at him, or raise our hands," Hewitt recalls. "We'd be very patient. You don't...

Fasig-Tipton has added 26 supplemental entries to its upcoming Midlantic May Two-Year-Olds in Training sale. The latest entries, catalogued as hips 594-619, include 2-year-olds in training by Army Mule, Bolt d'Oro, Constitution, Corniche, Curlin, Girvin, Golden Pal, Highly Motivated, Justify, Liam's Map, Mandaloun, Maxfield, Mitole, Nashville, Not This Time, Olympiad, Pinehurst, Practical Joke, Tapit, Vekoma, and Yaupon. Supplemental entries may be viewed online and will also be available in the equineline sales app. Print versions will be available on the sales grounds. The Midlantic May Two-Year-Olds in Training sale will...

The catalogue for the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale of 2-Year-Olds In Training, to be held at the Maryland State Fairgounds in Timonium, Maryland, Monday and Tuesday, May 18 and 19 and featuring 593 juveniles, is now available at www.fasigtipton.com. "Our consignors have shown tremendous support for Midlantic May this year, resulting in an outstanding catalogue," said Paget Bennett, Midlantic Director of Sales. "Growth in both numbers and sire power makes this one of our strongest editions to date." There will be a series of three under-tack previews ahead of the auction...

For 2026, Maryland's racing calendar will look more or less like this year's schedule after the Maryland Racing Commission on Wednesday approved a slate of 120 dates for Laurel Park. That's the same number of racing days that the non-profit Maryland Jockey Club had been awarded for this season, with the only difference being that in 2025, six programs were run at Pimlico Race Course as part of the GI Preakness Stakes meet. Pimlico has since been demolished and is being rebuilt with the goal of all commercial-track Thoroughbred racing...

TIMONIUM, MD - Camille Booker, who first made her presence known in the Thoroughbred industry as a bidspotter at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale in 2023, became the first woman to auctioneer for the sales company when she took to the rostrum Tuesday at the Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale in Timonium. While it may have been a first for Fasig-Tipton, it was far from a first sale for Booker, a third-generation auctioneer from Washington. "It was fun. It was great," Booker said in between stints on the stand Tuesday. "I...

220 yearlings have been catalogued to the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings sale, the company announced Tuesday. The sale will be held  Tuesday, September 30 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Maryland beginning at 11 am. "Yearlings from the Midlantic region are well raised and that translates to results on the racetrack," said Paget Bennett, Midlantic Director of Sales. "With 55 stakes wins or placings throughout the country so far this year, Midlantic Fall continues to produce quality racehorses that can take you to the winners circle on a national...

A Great Notion colt owned by Ann Merryman was selected as grand champion at the 91st annual MHBA Yearling Show at the Timonium Fairgrounds June 29. The show's champion is out of Sista, a winning Two Punch mare Merryman co-bred and trained, then retired to her broodmare band. Sista is the dam of four named foals, including Maryland Million Sprint Turf winner Fiya, who Merryman sold the 3-year-old gelding for $400,000 at the Wanamaker's sale in 2020. The son of Great Notion took the blue ribbon in the first class...

TIMONIUM, MD - The under-tack show for the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, delayed a day and an hour by rain storms, opened under gray skies and an intermittent drizzle Wednesday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds as seven juveniles splashed down the lane in co-fastest :10 1/5 furlong breezes. First to hit the :10 1/5 time was a colt by Tiz the Law (hip 189), who worked early in the second of the day's seven sets. Consigned by Wavertree Stables, the bay is out of stakes-placed Janis's Joy...

Dave Rodman, announcer at Maryland's racetracks since 1991, has been named recipient of a Special Award of Merit for his contributions and positive impact on the racing industry. Rodman will be presented with the award at the May 15 Alibi Breakfast at Pimlico Race Course. A native of New Orleans, Rodman worked as a deejay at various radio stations before calling his first race at Jefferson Downs in 1981. He moved to Louisiana Downs in 1985 before becoming the track announcer for the Maryland Jockey Club, calling races at Pimlico,...

The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May Two-Year-Olds In-Training sale has supplemented an additional 36 entries to the catalogue, highlighted by a Gun Runner half-brother to multiple champion MGISW Monomoy Girl (Tapizar). The May 15 colt, consigned by Hoppel LLC as agent, counts not only the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff heroine as a half-sister but GSW Mr. Monomoy (Palace Malice) as a half-brother as well. Their dam has produced six winners from seven to the races. The Florida-bred is set to go as HIP 559. Juveniles by major stallions like Constitution, Maxfield, Munnings,...

How did we get hooked on this sport? We all have stories about how our love affair developed and blossomed. The TDN will be reaching out to numerous notable people in the industry to get their stories to find out how they got hooked and stayed hooked on the sport. Larry Collmus, racecaller It really started for me at Timonium, where my father put in the sound system. I would work for him in the summers, monitoring the sound in the grandstand while he was monitoring all the fair exhibits...