Fasig-Tipton yearling sale “gets you runners”
Frank Vespe
September 30, 2025
When Live Stream prevailed by a head in the Fitz Dixon, Jr. Memorial Juvenile Stakes Sept. 19 at Presque Isle Downs, Paget Bennett was paying attention.
Bennett, the sales director for Fasig-Tipton Midlantic, had a rooting interest. The Maryland-bred Live Stream, by Long River, sold at the company’s fall yearling sale last October, and while the winning bid was just $2,000, the gelding’s victory made a point Bennett likes to emphasize.
“The sale has been good to so many people,” Bennett said. “Not only do we find people that have success pinhooking out of this sale into the two-year-old sales, we’ve also got people that buy and race them. We get runners out of there.”
Runners like, well, Live Stream, who has earned $79,500 in three starts, which is a pretty nice return on a $2,000 initial investment.
And also runners like 2022 Grade 1 Spinaway winner Leave No Trace and the victors in the last two runnings of the Grade 2 Carter, Post Time (2024 winner) and Crazy Mason (2025).
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This year’s yearling sale takes place Sept. 30 at the sales pavilion on the Timonium fairgrounds.
It has 225 numbered hips prior to outs, down from 284 catalogued a year ago and over 400 in 2023. Of last year’s 284, 180 found new homes.
“We wish we had more to offer,” Bennett acknowledged. “But the buyers are here. Every year we see more faces here that we haven’t seen in past years.”
The sale is much heavier on Mid-Atlantic flavor than the company’s May two-year-old sale. Of the 225 catalogued, 115 are Maryland-breds, and another 39 are Pennsylvania-breds.
At the same time, she said the company sees this as a sale catering to both end users – trainers and owners – and pinhookers, who will buy horses here and sell them again later. To that end:
“We’ve got a lot of Kentucky sires, which a lot of our out-of-town folks like,” she said. “So we have that, and I think that’s a big plus.”
With so many Maryland-breds, along with a lot of Maryland-sired horses, there’s one key group Bennett hopes to see.
“We’re just hopeful that our Maryland trainers, which we’ve seen a bunch of, are finding horses they will put in their barns and race in Maryland and earn those bonuses,” she said.
SOME HIPS TO WATCH
Here’s a wildly subjective list of some hips of interest.
| NUMBER | NOTES |
| 18 | This Nyquist colt is out of a very good female family familiar to Midlantic racing fans that includes Cotillion winner Star Minister, multiple graded-placed runner Another Broad, and his dam, the stakes-placed Lookin Dynamic. |
| 45 | This filly by exciting young sire Yaupon is a half to stakes winner Special Aviator. |
| 100 | This Global Campaign colt is a half to the millionaire Grade 3 winner Cordmaker, along with multiple stakes winner Las Setas and Maryland Million Nursery winner Corvus |
| 107 | Practical Joke stands for $100,000, and this filly’s a half to a stakes winner |
| 148 | A Great Notion filly, this miss is a half to Grade 2 winner Still Having Fun and stakes winner Too Many Kisses |
| 158 | This filly by Kentucky sire Upstart is out of the popular three-time Maryland Million winner Crabcakes. |
| 193 | With four winners and a stakes-placed horse already in his first crop, new stallion Engage is off to a solid start, and this filly’s dam is a half to a stakes producer and four stakes winners, including $900,000 earner Malibu Beauty. |
| 202 | Sire Army Mule is picking up steam, and this filly is a half-sister to multiple stakes winner Hello Beautiful, as well as the stakes winner Hello Hot Rod. |
| 205 | This colt by Weigelia is out of Honor Achieved, a 10-time winner by Stephen Got Even, but of more interest: Honor Achieved’s half-sister Emblem of Hope (by Dynaformer) is the dam of Zee Zee, who is the dam of Zeezee Zoomzoom, who in turn is the dam of Caravel and Witty. |
| 216 | You’ll have to stick around almost all day to see him, but this Hard Spun colt is a full brother to Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Aloha West. |
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