Fasig-Tipton 2-year-old sale zooms past $50 million mark
Three million-dollar horses sold
Frank Vespe
May 19, 2026
A record-breaking edition of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic two-year-olds in training sale came to an end at about 6:00 p.m. Tuesday with more than $52.7 million in total sales over the two days. That was up by 19.25% versus 2025.
The sale was led by a trio of million-dollar horses, and the top two were both consigned and purchased by the same people.
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A Flightline colt sold as hip 54 led the way, selling for $2.1 million. He is out of the Medaglia d’Oro mare Bar of Gold, winner of the 2017 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1). The colt is a half-brother to Grade 3 winner Coinage.
He was consigned by Sequel as agent for Chester Broman, and Pedro Lanz signed the ticket as agent for KAS Stables.
“He had a beautiful breeze,” buyer Pedro Lanz said in a release. “He’s a classy horse. Flightline was one of the best horses of all time. I didn’t want to tell (the buyer) the exact number but it’s a question mark, the price we’ll have to pay for this horse. So, be ready.”
Sequel, again acting as Broman’s agent, also sold the second-highest seller – and again to Lanz as the agent for KAS. Sold as hip 357, that was a Gun Runner filly out of the unraced Uncle Mo mare Modest Maven. Modest Maven has had two foals to race thus far: the graded stakes-placed Frosted colt Arctic Arrogance and the stakes-placed Into Mischief colt Overstep.
The filly also hails from the family of, among others, Hall of Famer Housebuster, twice the champion sprinter.
Hip 357 brought a winning bid of $1,375,000.
Selling for precisely $1 million was Hip 473. A colt by champion 2-year-old colt Corniche, whose first foals are now 2-year-olds, the colt is out of the stakes-placed Dixie Union mare Secret Union. He is a half-brother to the stakes-placed Longclaw.
The colt was consigned by De Meric sales as agent, and Lee Ackerley made the purchase.
In all 379 horses changed hands for a grand total of $52,700,500. The average of $139,789 was up by a modest 3.1% versus last year, while the median rose 16.7% to $70,000.
The buyback rate fell from 24% last year to 17.2% this year.
Four sires topped the $2 million mark: Gun Runner (3 sold for a total of over $2.4 million), Jackie’s Warrior (8 for $2.36 million), Corniche (9 for $2.25 million) and Flightline (2 for $2.165 million).
The top-selling horse bred in the Mid-Atlantic was hip 434, a Pennsylvania-bred Drain the Clock filly out of the winning Quiet American mare Quiet Inferno. A half to two stakes winners, the filly was purchased by LC Racing for $250,000 and consigned by Grade One Investments as agent.
Among Mid-Atlantic states, Maryland led the way with 15 horses sold for an average of $95,000. Fourteen Pennsylvania-breds sold, and they averaged $83,143. Seven Virginia-breds averaged $38,286, while two New Jersey-breds and one West Virginia-bred also sold.
Calling himself “relieved and pleased” after Monday’s first day of the two-day sale, Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning said, “You could feel the energy and the activity that took place in the pavilion today. We’re very appreciative of the cooperation and support we’ve received from our consignors.”
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