The 2022 sale year is coming to an end December 6 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Midlantic December Sale of Mixes and Race Horses for Race Age in Timonium, Md. In a single day sale 286 horses will be offered to various shows, including Jim McKay’s Maryland Millions, which takes place in the fall at either laurel park or Racecourse Pimlico.
The last US live sale is sure to cap off a great year of deals across all regions.
In the 2021 edition of the one-off sale, 261 of the 332 horses through the ring were sold for a total value of $3,905,100, matching the median price of $14,962 and a median of 10,000. dollars. Seventy-one horses failed to meet their reserves, representing an RNA ratio of 21.2%.
This year, the catalog offers 73 stallions, seven prospective stallions, 76 race-age horses, 24 racehorses or prospective stallions, 18 ponies a year and 88 weaners for consideration. The first part of the catalog will introduce mares, one-year-old foals and weaners, followed by racehorses.
“It is very important for ranchers to display, if you will, their stallions,” said Paget Bennett, sales manager for Fasig-Tipton Midlantic. “To help people participate in future breeding seasons by showing people what they produce. It’s a way to market their stallions, putting them in front of people at the sale. .”
Shoppers shop before the December sale
Of the mares, the majority carry ponies of interesting stallions from the area while a few are ponies from famous Kentucky-based studs, along with a few first year stallions. scattered everywhere.
The three mares offered are stock production dams and sell with attractive matings: Northview Stallion Station offers She’s Flattering, by Flatter (Hip 12) in ponies for Eclipticalspraline on the cover of early April. The mare, daughter of the late Flatter, made a score of 3 Please flatter me via Munnings .
Smoke Glacken’s mare, Smeauxkininthelane (Hip 18), will be sold with one Tapwrit pony on the March cover. her second pony by man can , man in can won the Arkansas Brethren’s Champion Share in 2020 and placed in the same race in 2021 and 2022. Harry L. Landry Bloodstock will see her through the ring.
The third black manufacturer, Stolen heart of Ecton Park (Hip 25), selling ponies to Engagement on the cover March 3. The mare herself has been wagered on the Mesa Handicap twice and has produced stake winners Princess Henny and Do not pour lightning .
A five-time stake winner, Red Round Table (Hip 164), will sell from Dark Hollow draft; the Cuvee mare boasts an 8-3-1 record in 19 starts with $268,780 in earnings. She will go through the ring as a pony with a new stallion of 2022, 2nd place winner Engage, son of a longtime leading stallion into naughty .
Maryland stake winner Celtic Katie via own , will be sold as a Hip 65 with Bill Reightler, agent of Lewis Family Racing Stable. While not yet mated for the 2022 breeding season, she boasts an exhaustive list of offspring to watch.
The Maryland sale offers pups from the state’s breeding program, other surrounding states, and two from Kentucky. This will be the first trip through the ring for all but two of the hatchlings. Hip 173, a kid by Long river who originally went through the Fasig-Tipton Mideast Fall Annual Mid-Autumn Sale, kept at $9,500 with her shippers Lady Olivia at North Cliff and Sally Thomas consigned Hip 180, a pony of Urge who failed to meet his reserve at $27,000 during Keeneland’s September Annual Sale.
“We have a lot of boar weaners in the area; a lot of them are Maryland hybrids, which makes them eligible for the Maryland Million and is a big plus for the region,” said Bennett. “It’s a big deal. It helps them qualify for that big race day, but not just that day. The Maryland bulls have plenty of races and opportunities available to them throughout the year. .”
With 88 weaners to sort through, there’s always something for everyone to buy, especially six siblings to bet winners to consider.
Turning Point Bloodstock deposit a inspect colt, Hip 21, winner in class 3 The Alone Survivor and full siblings with Hip Hop N Jazz Houston Distaff Stakes winner and placed in Delaware Oaks (G3).
Bazinga B’s active family will be up for grabs; she Uncle Lino the pony (Hip 53) will enter the ring, as will his half-brother Bazeda C (provided as Hip 286), a stake winner added another black type finish to his resume recently in Stalled Safely on Nov 26. Northview Stallion Station will saw both ponies through the ring.
Other offerings with a winning sibling include Hip 66, certified Maryland Millions outside pony named Chimney Sweep from Bill Reightler and Hip 109’s shipment, a Pennsylvania cross Uptowncharlybrown provided by Sally Thomas as agent for Danielle Marie.
The two living families can be found in Hip 111, a pony of the late Lord Nelson consigned by Gracie Bloodstock, and Hip 152, a Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Cloud computing . Hip 111 is half brother to this year’s Miracle Wood Stake winner, local engine as well as current runner Unilateral Love while Hip 152, named Ona Proud Note, shares a dam with 2022’s Robert G. Leavitt and West Virginia Lottery Breeder’s Classic Stakes winner Free boat ride .
Bennett added: “We also have some first year weaned males, which sold very well during the previous mixed sale in Kentucky. We are fortunate to have a number of such males here and hopefully they’ll be just as appealing to buyers as they are in Kentucky.”
Paget Bennett
The Horse of Racing Age section of the catalog, which has been accepting entries so far this week, offers a great opportunity for buyers to select horses that are ready to run for the winter meeting and for trainers who trade these Horses may not fit their owner’s outline.
The current pool of horses in shape will once again be noticed by 25 offerings from respected owner/breeder Joseph Besecker, who is responsible for selling toppers in 2020 and 2021. During last year’s sale, he saw the 2-year-old Safalow’s Mission horse being gelled for $130,000 to trainer Linda Rice making Thelma and Louise Stable the highest bid of the day.
“The racehorses are being trained and could go to Florida, New Orleans, or oak lawn“We’ve had interest from people in California for some of these racehorses,” said Bennett. Racehorses will do well because people, as we all know, are always looking for useful racehorses and there are plenty of places where they can run in the winter here or elsewhere. “
Top shipper Northview Stallion Station sold 107 of their 145 horses offered for sale last year to become the top shipper, with a total of $1,774,600 in sales, with an average price of $1,774,600. 16,571 dollars.
Bennett commented: “Thanks to everyone who deposited their horses with us, we feel like we have a great chance to close successfully. “We have a lovely pony to Bolt d’Oro (Hip 86—Ever Awesome) and one to justification (Hip 151—Northern Beauty); Just having what the buyer wants, it just gives us great hope that we can achieve high results.”
Charles Zacney closed the sale last year, making six purchases totaling $159,000 to become the top buyer in terms of sales by total revenue.
Next year, a fun addition of 2-year-olds on June 28 in the training sale will be added to the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic calendar, with a technical preview held on June 26. 6 on dirt road at the Maryland State Fairgrounds.
The sale goes on Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. ET at the Maryland State Fairgrounds. As of Monday evening, 54 horses had been withdrawn from the sale.
