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The Coolmore partnership repeatedly flexed its muscles at the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Selected 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale, buying four of the day’s six most expensive horses in whole or in partnership. Chief among them was a Curlin colt bought in tandem with bloodstock agent Donato Lanni on behalf of an unnamed client for $3.65 million, which […]

Since Fasig-Tipton relocated its Florida select juvenile sale to Gulfstream Park in 2015, the pre-sale under-tack show has been relatively free of outliers on the stopwatch. That changed Monday when two pairs of horses turned in the fastest respective times at an eighth-mile and quarter-mile in the five editions that the Gulfstream Selected 2-Year-Olds In […]

In an effort to expand racing opportunities for 2-year-olds and to make a larger number of top quality juveniles available to horsemen in California, Santa Anita Park has announced it will be offering maiden special weight races for 2-year-olds beginning April 18 & 19 and that it will present a pair of 2-year-old stakes on […]

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 185 entries for The Gulfstream Sale of Selected 2-Year-Olds in Training, to be held on Wednesday, March 27 in the racetrack’s walking ring. The sale will begin at 2 p.m. The under tack show is scheduled for Monday, March 25, beginning at 9 a.m. “2019 marks our fifth year at Gulfstream Park, […]

The North American mixed sale calendar closed on a high note Tuesday, with the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter posting gains in average and median sale price. The two-day auction finished with 327 horses sold for revenues of $9,659,400, down 7 percent from last year’s sale when 364 offerings brought $10,436,800. Growth was seen in the marketplace […]

The final auction of the 2018/2019 North American mixed sale season started on strong footing Monday, with the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale showing across-the-board gains in its first session. A total of 146 offerings brought $4,677,200 on Monday, up 13 percent from last year’s day-one gross of $4,134,200 from 181 horses sold. The average sale price […]

Leading bloodstock agent and yearling buyer Tom McGreevy will join the Fasig-Tipton yearling inspection team this spring for the company’s 2019 selected yearling sales. McGreevy will continue to serve as the exclusive agent and advisor for client Michael Stinson. “We are delighted to have Tom join our yearling inspection team for 2019,” said Fasig-Tipton president […]

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 429 entries to date for its Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale, to be held on Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 4 and 5, in Lexington, Ky. Sessions will begin daily at 10 a.m. Eastern. The sale will also feature a supplemental catalog that will be available online and on the sales grounds. Fasig-Tipton will […]

Gulfstream Park announced today that Fasig-Tipton will be the title sponsor for the $350,000 Holy Bull (G2) and the $150,000 Hurricane Bertie (G3). The Fasig-Tipton Holy Bull, to be contested at 1 1/16 mile Saturday, Feb. 2, is a major prep for 3-year-old classic contenders. The race has been won in the past by Audible, […]

Fasig-Tipton announced that Jesse Ullery has joined the company as an account executive and sales announcer.  He will be actively involved in the recruitment of both sellers and buyers for all Fasig-Tipton sales as an account executive. Ullery brings extensive experience in the Thoroughbred industry to Fasig-Tipton. He has served as director of racing at […]