Maryland State Fairgrounds

An additional 60 horses have been supplemented to the upcoming Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed and Horses of Racing Age Sale. The sale will be held Dec. 5 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium. Horses of racing age are catalogued as hips 161-220 in a separate supplemental catalogue. Daily Racing Form past performances, Ragozin speed figures, and race replays for all horses of race age entries are now available online. "We have a variety of in-form entries to suit various racing circuits and conditions," said Midlantic Director of Sales Paget...

The Maryland State Fair meet at Timonium concluded Monday with increases in on-track and total handle. Total wagering at the fair, including money wagered at Timonium on live and simulcast races and simulcast handle on Timonium racing, totaled $7,827,083, up 11.11% from last year. A total of $716,384 was wagered on-track on Timonium racing, up 11.25% from last year, while export handle jumped to $4,103,198, a 39.66% rise from last season. For the second consecutive year, 63 races were conducted, with more than $2 million in purse money distributed. A...

A total of 392 yearlings have been catalogued for the upcoming Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale to be held at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium Oct. 2 and 3. Hips 1-124 will be offered during the Monday session, which will begin at 3 p.m. and hips 125 through 392 will be offered during the Tuesday session, which will begin at 11 a.m. "This year's catalogue features nearly 400 yearlings representing a wide variety of national and regional sires and state-bred programs," said Midlantic Director of Sales Paget Bennett. "Each...

The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic June Two-Year-Olds-in-Training Sale is now online. The sale is scheduled for Wednesday, June 28, at 3 p.m. at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Maryland. The under-tack show is scheduled for the day prior, Tuesday, June 27, beginning at 8 a.m. The breeze-up had previously been scheduled for Monday, June 26, but that date has been moved. A new auction for 2023, the sale represents is the last two-year-old sale of the season and is the only sale in June to be conducted over a dirt race track....

The three-day under-tack show for the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale begins Tuesday morning at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium. The first 200 catalogued juveniles are slated to work Tuesday, followed by hips 201 through 400 on Wednesday and hips 401 through 603 on Thursday. Each session of the under-tack show begins at 8 a.m. The May sale, which produced this year's GI Kentucky Derby winner Mage (Good Magic), will be held next Monday and Tuesday with bidding beginning each day at 11 a.m.

TIMONIUM, MD - The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale opens Monday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium with a session of 200 catalogued hips beginning at 1 p.m., and concludes with a further 326 catalogued yearlings for a session beginning at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Despite persistent rain throughout the weekend, shoppers were making the rounds at the sales barns Sunday and consignors are hoping the looks continue to build up to Monday's later start time. "We are cautiously optimistic," said Vinery Sales' Derek MacKenzie. "It seems like the traffic...

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...

Edited Press Release Jonathan Thomas, trainer of the versatile multiple Grade I winner Catholic Boy, will judge the 88th annual Maryland Horse Breeders Association Yearling Show. Open to all yearlings eligible for Maryland-bred registration, the show will be held Sunday, July 24 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds' Horse Show Ring in Timonium. Entries are due by June 24. Thomas was born in Virginia and raised at Paul Mellon's famed Rokeby Farm, where his grandfather, father and mother all worked. Growing up around quality horses, Thomas was 13 when Mellon's homebred...

The under-tack show ahead of next week's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale gets underway Tuesday morning at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium. The show continues through Thursday with sessions beginning each day at 8 a.m. A total of 636 juveniles have been catalogued for the Midlantic sale, which will be held next Monday and Tuesday. Bidding commences each day at 11 a.m.  

Running from Aug. 27 through Sept. 6, this year's seven days of racing held during the Maryland State Fair at Timonium will offer purses of over $287,000 daily, the Maryland State Fair and Agricultural Society announced Tuesday. The meet will feature the $125,000 Timonium Juvenile S. for 2-year-olds, going 6 1/2 furlongs Aug. 29. A $40,000 trainers' bonus will be offered this year and grooms' awards to the best turned out in each race will also be awarded. Annual College Day at the Fair will take place Aug. 27, with...

A celebration of the life of Steve Dance will be held at the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium June 16 at 1 p.m. Dance, who passed away May 25 at the age of 78, spent over half-a-century as an auctioneer, both at Fasig-Tipton and at his own Milton J. Dance Company. The sales pavilion may be accessed through the Marquee (South) Gate on York Road, near its intersection with Timonium Road. In lieu of flowers, donations are suggested as follows: Baltimore County 4-H Fair, c/o...

TIMONIUM, MD - Four juveniles shared the co-fastest furlong time of the week during the third and final session of the under-tack show for next week's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale at the Maryland State Fairgrounds Thursday. A colt by Midnight Storm (hip 477) was the first to record the :10 flat bullet time Thursday when working early in the day's first set for consignor James Layden. "I was really pleased with that," Layden said of the work. "He's been doing good all year and I just wanted him...