Because of high entry volume, the Fasig-Tipton fall yearling sale in Timonium will take place over two days rather than the one originally scheduled.
The Fasig-Tipton mixed sale will switch back to its traditional December date after having been held in January the last two years.
The market for two-year-olds has been strong so far in 2017, and expectations are high for this week’s Fasig-Tipton juvenile sale.
Saturday’s edition of “Off to the Races on The Racing Biz Radio Network” will feature Preakness-winning jockey Don Miller, Fasig-Tipton’s Paget Bennett, and MJC head Sal Sinatra.
The Fasig-Tipton two-year-old sale has nearly 600 catalogued for the post-Preakness event.
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.”
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.
Sunday’s Fasig-Tipton mixed sale has a much larger book than in 2016, and consignors are hoping for the best even as the national market has lately struggled.
Part 2 of 4 of our 2016 in review, in which we take a sometimes happy, sometimes sad, and most often bemused look at the year that was in the mid-Atlantic.
The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Winter Mixed Sale, coming in January in Timonium, has 37 percent more entries than last year’s edition.