The average was up slightly and the median unchanged from last year during Tuesday’s revamped Fasig-Tipton fall yearling sale in Timonium.
The Fasig-Tipton Eastern fall yearling sale will offer a $500,000 bonus connecting this year’s sale to the 2028 Preakness Stakes.
This year’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-old sale went past $50 million in total sales, blowing past last year’s record event.
Fasig-Tipton’s fall yearling sale in Timonium will get a revamp, the company announced, with a focus on regional breeding and racing.
Despite a considerably smaller catalog, Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic yearling sale showed strong across-the-board gains, including the gross.
Under changes announced Tuesday, breezes at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s 2-yearr-old sale will be untimed and riders’ use of the crop restricted.
Fasig-Tipton’s upcoming two-year-old sale will conclude its under-tack show today as gallop-only, and all horses will sell Tuesday.
The average value of Maryland-breds sold at Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton yearling sale was up over 8% from 2023, helping the sale to hold its own.
Maryland-breds accounted for about half the total sales volume at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale, plus how other states fared and more.
A trio of Maryland-breds, including a Nyquist colt, topped the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic yearling sale which saw declines amid uncertainty.