Paget Bennett

TIMONIUM, MD - The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, whose graduates have been hitting on all cylinders on the racetrack recently, begins Monday morning at the Maryland State Fairgrounds. A total of 603 juveniles have been catalogue for the two-day auction and bidding begins at 11 a.m sessions Monday and Tuesday. "There has been a lot of interest and we have the right people here--either they have been here or their agents have been here to watch the horses breeze," Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sales Director Paget Bennett said at...

An additional 28 supplemental entries have been added to the upcoming Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training. These entries, which are catalogued as hips 576-603, include 2-year-olds by Blame, Candy Ride (Arg), Good Magic, Hard Spun, Into Mischief, Munnings, Nyquist, Quality Road, Tapit, Twirling Candy, and Uncle Mo. "Many of the sport's current leading sires are represented in the supplement, as well as a number of exciting first and second crop 2-year-old sires," said Paget Bennett, Midlantic Director of Sales. "It's a high quality group that adds additional...

Fasig-Tipton Midlantic concludes its 2022 calendar of auctions with the one-session December Mixed and Horses of Racing Age Sale Tuesday at the Maryland Sate Fairgrounds in Timonium. Bidding for the first of 286 catalogued horses begins at 11 a.m. The auction opens with an offering of weanlings and broodmares and continues with a selection of yearlings before concluding with horses of racing age. "We have had a lot of interest," Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's sales director Paget Bennett said ahead of Tuesday's sale. "We have a bunch of weanlings by Kentucky sires...

The catalogue containing 186 entries for the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed Sale is now online. The sale is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 11 a.m. and will be held at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium. In addition to broodmares and broodmare prospects, the catalogue also has a number of weanlings and yearlings. A Horses of Racing Age supplement will be included for the sixth consecutive year, with horses of racing age entries accepted for another week. "This is a quality catalogue, especially in terms of weanling sire power...

A total of 512 yearlings have been catalogued for the upcoming Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale, which will be held at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium Oct. 3 and 4. Hips 1-200 will be offered during Monday's session, which begins at 1 p.m., and hips 201-512 will be offered Tuesday with bidding commencing at 10 a.m. "This year's catalogue features over 500 yearlings and our strongest sire power in recent memory," said Midlantic Director of Sales Paget Bennett. "Quality yearlings representing a wide variety of state-bred programs will be...

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 636 entries for its upcoming Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, to be held on Monday and Tuesday, May 23-24, at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Maryland. "This is the strongest catalogue we have ever had for Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training," said Midlantic Sales Director Paget Bennett. "It is the largest in size in recent memory, and there is tremendous quality that will suit both leading national stables as well as the various regional circuits in our area." Bennett added, "Just about every current leading sire is...

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 232 entries for the main catalogue of the Midlantic December Mixed Sale, to be held on Tuesday, Dec. 7 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Maryland. The sale will begin at 11 a.m. The main catalogue consists of broodmares, broodmare prospects, weanlings, and yearlings. Fasig-Tipton will also offer a Horses of Racing Age supplement for the fifth consecutive year. There are currently more than 150 entries in the supplement, which will be posted online in the next seven to 10 days. "This year's catalogue is larger...

TIMONIUM, MD - The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale streamrolled to its conclusion Tuesday, ending its two-day run in Timonium with figures up across the board and six-figure transactions right through the very last horses through the ring. Through the sale's two sessions, 381 yearlings sold for $11,269,400 for an average of $29,578 and a median of $20,000. With 75 horses reported not sold, the buy-back rate was 16.4%. In 2020, 379 yearlings grossed $9,120,700 for an average of $24,065 and a median of $14,000. The buy-back rate was 21.7%....

TIMONIUM, MD - The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale returned to its traditional May spot on the calendar with an ebullient session topped by a $1.5-million son of Quality Road at the Maryland State Fairgrounds Monday. The seven-figure purchase was the co-highest priced colt ever sold at the Timonium auction, tying the price of a Curlin colt sold in 2017. "It was unbelievable," Midlantic Sales Director Paget Bennett said at the close of business Monday. "The activity in the barn area over the weekend was strong and all of...

TIMONIUM, MD - The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, which was pushed back to late June in 2020 due to the pandemic, returns to its traditional mid-May spot on the calendar with bidding at the first of two sessions getting underway at 11 a.m. Monday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds. "We are very optimistic about the sale," Fasig Midlantic Sales Director Paget Bennett said at the sales barns Sunday morning. "We have a great group of horses here and there is a lot of interest. We were very busy...

The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed and Horses of Racing Age Sale will be held Tuesday in Timonium. The one-day sale is comprised of 287 horses of all ages--including broodmares, yearlings and weanlings--as well as 76 horses of racing age. "I think we are like no other sale," said Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Director of Sales Paget Bennett. "We are just happy to be having a sale under these conditions. We have something that will peak everybody's interest. The beauty of this marketplace is we usually have something for all levels of buyers....

The catalog for the upcoming Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed & Horses of Racing Age Supplement is now online at www.fasigtipton.com. The sale is scheduled for a single session to take place Tuesday, Dec. 8, at the Maryland State Fairgrounds at Timonium beginning at 11 a.m. Hips 205-210 in the supplemental catalog consist of yearlings, weanlings and in-foal mares, while hips 211-283 are all horses of racing age. "This sale's supplemental catalogue annually offers one of the largest groups of horses of racing age on the North American Thoroughbred auction calendar,"...