Horses of racing age spice up Fasig-Tipton Midlantic winter mixed sale

The North American breeding stock sale season continues with Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic winter mixed sale. For the sixth year in a row, the sale will also offer a horses of racing age supplement, giving buyers a chance to pick up racing stock for a variety of statebred programs in the region.

Fasig-Tipton cataloged 186 initial entries for the main catalog of Tuesday’s single-session sale at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, consisting of the traditional mixed sale offerings of broodmares, broodmare prospects, weanlings, and yearlings. It later announced 94 entries in the catalog for the horses of racing age section, plus seven supplemental entries for the main catalog.

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“We have a quality collection of horses of racing age from leading national stables as well as those from the Midlantic region,” Midlantic director of sales Paget Bennett said in a release. “Prospective buyers looking to augment their stables heading into 2023 will find in-form entries that fit a variety of levels, conditions, and regional programs.”

Accomplished young horses in the catalog include the stakes-winning Pennsylvania-bred 3-year-old Bazinga C; stakes-placed 2-year-olds Heldish and Riccio, both Maryland-breds; and stakes-placed 3-year-olds in Kentucky-bred Radical Right and Pennsylvania-bred Uncle Buddy.

The catalog also includes maiden special weight-winning 2- and 3-year-olds bred in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky, and unstarted young horses bred in Florida, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky.

Older horses on offer include Grade 1-placed Glynn County, graded stakes-placed Boat’s a Rockin, and Maryland-bred stakes winner Street Lute.

Among the first-crop covering stallions represented in the traditional breeding stock section is Maryland-bred Knicks Go, the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner and Horse of the Year who now stands in Kentucky. Grade 1 winner Yaupon, also a Kentucky resident, is represented as a first-year covering stallion. In his first season, he was the second-busiest stallion in North America, according to The Jockey Club’s Report of Mares Bred.

Other first-year covering sires of note in the catalog include graded stakes winners Independence Hall and Tacitus, both Kentucky residents, and well-bred young Maryland stallions Engage and Galawi. Graded stakes winner Engage is by leading sire and emerging sire of sires Into Mischief, while Galawi, a winner in his only U.S. start, is the first son of international powerhouse Dubawi to stand in the region.

Sires of weanlings include first-crop sires Gift Box, Global Campaign, and Vekoma, all Grade 1-winning Kentucky residents. Vekoma was among the commercial leaders of his class at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.

“This is a quality catalog, especially in terms of weanling sire power and covering sire power,” Bennett said.

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