Six Maryland-breds brought six-figure price tags at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's May 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale in Timonium, Md., held May 18-19.
A bay filly from the first crop of champion Corniche, purchased for $200,000 by Case Clay Thoroughbred Management from the Scanlon Training & Sales consignment, recorded the highest price from the Maryland contingent.
Bred by Owen Kiernan, Hip 603 is the fifth foal out of the winning Bodemeister mare Logic of Absurdity, a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Stormy Lucy and to the dam of graded stakes winner Big Runnuer and graded stakes-placed Shifty. The filly left the ring at last fall's Midlantic yearling sale for the same price.
At the start of the two-day sale, Hip 6, a chestnut colt from the first crop of Preakness Stakes-G1 winner Early Voting named Winklepicker bred by George Kerr out of the Lemon Drop Kid mare Wild Lemon Gal, went for $190,000 to California-based Three Amigos. He had been sold previously for $15,000 at the 2025 OBS Yearling sale in Florida.
A bay colt by City of Light out of Maryland-bred champion Majestic Reason (by Majestic Warrior) sold for $175,000 to agent Clay Scherer. Consigned by Julie Davies, Hip 325 is the third foal produced by Majestic Reason. Bred by Sycamore Hall Thoroughbreds and Ellen Charles, who campaigned his dam, the colt was an $80,000 sales yearling at last fall's Midlantic sale.
Hip 115, a dark bay filly by Bolt d'Oro, went for $160,000 to Taproot Bloodstock. Consigned by Omar Ramirez Bloodstock, she was bred by Sycamore Hall Thoroughbreds and is the first foal out of the Frosted mare Chione, a winning half-sister to Grade 1-winning millionaire Hard Aces.
The highest price for a Maryland-sired juvenile was a dark bay filly by Great Notion, purchased by R.L. Graham, agent for Denisheen Stable, for $150,000.
From the Cary Frommer consignment, Hip 545 was bred by Tom and Chris Bowman out of the Not For Love mare Talkin Smack, the dam of stakes winner Talk to the Judge. Frommer signed the ticket for the filly last fall at Timonium on a $73,000 bid.
Hip 310, a three-quarter sister to multiple graded stakes-winning millionaire and two-time Maryland-bred champion Jaxon Traveler named Of Course, sold for $115,000 to Mentz/Ryan/Robertson. The chestnut filly by Jack Christopher was consigned by De Meric Sales. Bred by the late A. Leonard Pineau and his wife Patricia, the filly is out of the After Market mare Listen Boy.
Of the 24 Maryland-breds in the catalog, 15 sold, two were RNAs and seven were withdrawn. The 15 sold grossed $1,425,000, for an average of $95,000. The median of $70,000 matched that of the overall sale.
