Fasig Midlantic Sales Area | Fasig-Tipton / Eclipse Sportswire
Via Jessica Martini
TIMONIUM, MD – The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings sale opens Monday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium with a 200-person session that begins at 1 p.m. and ends with over 326 birds hello crest is cataloged for a session starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Despite persistent rain throughout the weekend, shoppers hit storefronts on Sunday and shippers hope looks will continue to improve through a later start time on Monday.
“We are cautiously optimistic,” said Derek MacKenzie of Vinery Sales. “It seems that the traffic is heavier today. Yesterday was really slow, but now they are coming. And they will have more time tomorrow. We’ll see some coaches who won’t be coming today, who I’m sure will be here in the morning. “
Delivery man Bill Reightler found a silver pad in the bleak weather.
“We’ve been busy with all the shows,” said Reightler. “But I think knights are opportunists. I can remember here a few years ago we had a sale in December where we had 4 or 5 inches of snow and I think we had the best sale we’ve ever had. because people think no one shows up and they can buy something.”
After a record September sale in Keeneland, Reightler expects demand to continue to be high in Maryland this week.
“I think everything will be fine,” he said. “It will be like an old story. It will be polarized. I think some buyers are not able to buy horses in Keeneland and that drives more people to the next sale.”
A total of 381 crested birds were sold at auction last year with a total value of $11,269,400. The median is $29,578 and the median is $20,000. A pony of Mendelssohn brought in a top selling price of $235,000 from Scanlon Training and Sales before reselling for $1.3 million in this year’s OBS April sale. David Scanlon was one of a number of satirists looking at the horses through the raindrops at the stalls selling on Sunday.
Last year’s auction also produced the winner of the GI Spinaway S. Leave No Trace (Machining), who sold for $40,000 from the Vinery shipment. According to MacKenzie, such a result would keep shoppers eager to return to the Maryland auction.
“This sale was really good last year and I doubt it will happen again,” he said. “A lot of people didn’t get what they wanted in Keeneland and there are a lot of nice horses here.”
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