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Feb
  • Bill Reightler
  • Carrie Brogden
  • Fasig-Tipton
  • Fasig-Tipton Mixed Sale
  • Larry Johnson
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Mike Pons
  • Paget Bennett

Analysis: Box-checkers and buybacks at Fasig-Tipton Mixed

  • Frank Vespe / 10 years
  • 0
  • 7 min read

Good horses found buyers Sunday at the Fasig-Tipton mixed sale, but the market remains “polarized” — and there’s a need for regional “sire power.”

Hip 174.
29
Jan
  • Bill Reightler
  • Fasig-Tipton
  • Fasig-Tipton Mixed Sale
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Mike Pons
  • Paget Bennett

Fasig-Tipton Mixed Sale inches up from ’16

  • Frank Vespe / 10 years
  • 1
  • 5 min read

Buybacks were up and the average, down, but the good news was that the gross at today’s Fasig-Tipton Mixed Sale was up 2.7 percent from last year.

Fasig-Tipton
03
Oct
  • Andrew Motion
  • Bill Reightler
  • Fasig-Tipton
  • Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale
  • Larry Johnson
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Mike Pons
  • Rick Abbott

Some hips to watch at Fasig-Tipton yearling sale

  • Frank Vespe / 10 years
  • 0
  • 8 min read

Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton Yearlings sale brings together some with leading sires and flashy pedigrees and some with more regional bloodlines. A few to watch.

30
Sep
  • Andrew Motion
  • Bill Reightler
  • Fasig-Tipton
  • Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale
  • Larry Johnson
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Mike Pons
  • Rick Abbott

Cautious optimism as Fasig-Tipton yearling sale nears

  • Frank Vespe / 10 years
  • 0
  • 7 min read

Fasig-Tipton’s Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale takes place Tuesday, and several market participants said they were cautiously hopeful about the event.

Mosler
10
Sep
  • Ben's Cat
  • King Leatherbury
  • Laurel Dash
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Mike Pons
  • Mosler
  • Trevor McCarthy

Mosler posts Laurel Dash win; Ben’s Cat fifth

  • Press Release / 10 years
  • 0
  • 6 min read

Fan favorite Ben’s Cat couldn’t get it done today, finishing fifth behind Mosler in the Laurel Dash.

17
Oct
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  • Jim Steele
  • Larry Murray
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Million
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  • Maryland Million Ladies
  • Mike Pons
  • My Sweet Nenana
  • Surf Light

Maryland Million Ladies: Bombs away!

  • Doug McCoy / 11 years
  • 0
  • 6 min read

No race has been less kind to favorites than the Maryland Million Ladies, where longshots routinely prevail. We catch up to three of those outsiders.

20
May
  • Fasig-Tipton
  • Fasig-Tipton 2 year-olds in training sale
  • Jamie Ness
  • Michael Trombetta
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Mike Pons
  • Paget Bennett

Million-dollar horse spurs “great” Fasig-Tipton sale

  • Frank Vespe / 11 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

The Fasig-Tipton 2-Year-Olds in Training sale which concluded yesterday showed across-the-board gains. Plus, breadowns of each of the mid-Atlantic states.

08
Oct
  • Cigar
  • Country Life Farm
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Thoroughbred Hall of Fame
  • Mike Pons

Hall of Famer Cigar passes

  • The Biz / 12 years
  • 2
  • 2 min read

Cigar, the Maryland-bred colt whose 16-race win streak captivated the nation, has died at age 24.

14
Mar
  • Allen Paulson
  • Cigar
  • Ellen Pons
  • Maryland breeding
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland Thoroughbred Hall of Fame
  • Mike Pons

Maryland Thoroughbred Hall of Famers: Cigar

  • The Biz / 13 years
  • 0
  • 1 min read

With the Maryland Thoroughbred Hall of Fame poised to announce its second class of inductees, we revisit interviews with connections from the first class.

27
Dec
  • Country Life Farm
  • Cricket Goodall
  • Josh Pons
  • Maryland Horse Breeders Association
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Mike Pons
  • Orb

Favorite things: Orb’s Maryland story

  • The Biz / 13 years
  • 0
  • 9 min read

Over the next couple of weeks, The Racing Biz will celebrate the holidays by sharing a few of our favorite things: pictures, articles, and videos from 2013.

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