TIMONIUM, MD – The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale produced strong returns at the Maryland State Fairgrounds Tuesday, with numbers up across the board from its 2024 renewal. In all, 161 yearlings grossed $4,978,100, while the average of $30,920 rose 30.4% from a year ago and the median increased 33.3% to $20,000. A year ago, 180 horses sold for $4,267,700. The average was $23,709 and the median was $15,000.“The results were very strong today,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning, Jr. “I think it demonstrates that there is a viable and legitimate market here in the Midlantic region for people to bring a quality horse to. I thought we had more buyers here than we had horses. There was more money here than we had horses that could fill those orders. A lot of people went home without buying a horse.”With 36 horses reported not sold, the buy-back rate Tuesday was 19.3%. It was 28.3% a year ago.David Scanlon made the day's highest bid when going to $370,000 to acquire a colt by Nyquist from Becky Davis's consignment. The sale topper was one of seven to bring six figures at the auction, up from six in 2024.“For decades, this location has been as reliable and consistent a marketplace as there is in the United States,” Browning said. “And that was evident again today. There was a great cross-section of participation from pinhookers, to local trainers, to owners that race throughout the region. It was very encouraging today.”With the Maryland racing circuit in transition as Pimlico Race Course is demolished ahead of a rebuild and the expected closure of Laurel Park, the catalogue for the Midlantic Fall sale has fallen over the last several years. From 526 head in 2022, the catalogue fell to 412 in 2023, 284 in 2024 and 225 this year.“We know this is a region in transition, but I think the nice thing is that there were a lot of positives to take out of the sale today,” Browning said. “Hopefully it's something we can build on going forward and it gives people some confidence to breed horses and to bring a quality horse here to sell next year and beyond.”Browning continued, “This gives us some evidence to go recruit. There were some horses who came out of this region who sold at other markets in 2025 because of some concern or trepidation. There are some horses that traditionally have come to this market from other states who may not have come this year because of that same kind of trepidation. We can look those men and women in the eye and say, 'You might have made a mistake in 2025. We hope you will come back in 2026 and we will all work together and hopefully grow the marketplace and continue to offer a viable product for buyers and sellers alike.'”The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall sale also featured the company's first female auctioneer, when Camille Booker, a third-generation auctioneer, took the microphone Tuesday.“She sold today because she is a qualified professional,” Browning said. “I think anybody that was in this crowd or watching on the internet said that's a quality professional who happens to be a female. She got in the auction stand because she's a professional and she did a professional job today. And I think the reaction from our buyers and sellers was overwhelmingly positive.”'They Weren't Going to Let Me Steal One Two Years in a Row': Another Midlantic Nyquist Colt for ScanlonDave Scanlon walked out of last year's Midlantic Fall sale with a son of Nyquist acquired for $150,000 who subsequently brought $1 million at this year's OBS March sale. The Ocala horseman had to work considerably harder to take home a son of the GI Kentucky Derby winner Tuesday in Timonium, ultimately going to $370,000 to obtain hip 18 from Becky Davis's consignment. Hip 18 c. NYQUIST o/o Lookin Dynamic sells for $370,000 at Midlantic Fall Yearlings! Congrats to the connections:B: Scanlon Training & SalesC: Becky Davis, agtBr: Bowman & Higgins Stable, R. Larry Johnson & RDM Racing Stable (MD)#FasigMD #MDbred @MarylandTB… pic.twitter.com/W2lzo5eSrb— Fasig-Tipton (@FasigTiptonCo) September 30, 2025“We obviously had huge success with a Nyquist colt here last year,” Scanlon said. “This was the same breeder, same consignor. We were hoping coming in here that he was a beautiful horse. We got here and we were really happy. He's a great walker, he had good scope to him. And he is by Nyquist.”Bred by Bowman & Higgins Stable, the late R. Larry Johnson, and RDM Racing Stable, the dark bay colt is the first foal out of multiple stakes placed Lookin Dynamic (Lookin at Lucky), a half-sister to stakes winner and multiple graded placed Another Broad (Include) and multiple stakes winner Dynamic Strike (Smart Strike).Following a strong renewal of the Keeneland September sale, Scanlon admitted he was prepared to have plenty of competition at the Midlantic sale.“I see more people here this year,” Scanlon said. “I know people didn't get horses [at Keeneland]. We didn't get as many as we hoped to get. So we knew we had to go strong here. I do think there is a huge carry over from Keeneland. I knew coming in here, if this horse is nice, they are not going to let me steal one two years in a row.”Scanlon is perennially active at the Midlantic sale and said he likes the product on offer at the Maryland auction.“I feel like you have to be a real pinhooker here,” he said. “They are not ready made. They are raised right here in Maryland, out in a field and raised properly. And you get in here and they might be a little bit hairy, maybe a little raw, but they train up and they do really well. They are raised good, so they train up nice and they turn out nice.”When the Midlantic auction house holds its 2-year-olds in training sale next May, it will only be with untimed works. Scanlon said the change won't impact his shopping this fall.“I still think they are going to go down there at a pretty good clip,” Scanlon said. “I am for it. I think what it does is it makes everybody do their homework a little bit more. I am a big fan of the whip rule–I think we need to improve perception and I think that's going to help with the whip rule. I think it was a great deal last year. Even though we were kind of forced to do it that way, I loved it. I thought the response was pretty good. I applaud Boyd [Browning] and Fasig-Tipton for doing that. I think it was a great move and I hope it catches on.”Maryland Move Pays for Kiernan, Nothing But NetOwen Kiernan, who transferred his breeding operation from New York to Maryland five years ago, acquired the mare Logic of Absurdity (Bodemeister), in foal to Corniche, for $30,000 at the 2023 Keeneland November sale. The mare's Corniche filly (hip 17) rewarded the purchase Tuesday in Timonium when selling for $200,000 to Robert Lambe. The yearling was consigned by Northview Stallion Station.Owen Kiernan (in blue) | Fasig-Tipton“To be honest with you, I was finding it kind of hard to find horses at that sale,” Kiernan recalled of the 2023 Keeneland sale. “I just saw her going through and I talked with Mick Moore and I pulled the trigger on her and I got her. It was kind of lucky. It was one of those situations where you are getting a little punchy. But, you know, sometimes it works out okay.”Logic of Absurdity is a half-sister to Grade I winner Stormy Lucy (Stormy Atlantic). With no foal reported in 2025, the 11-year-old mare was bred back to Endorsed this spring.“She really bloomed in the last few months,” Owen said of the yearling. “I wasn't really that excited about her in the early part of the year and then she really came on. This sale later in September helped her a lot.”Of the yearling's price tag Tuesday, Kiernan admitted, 'I felt like $75,000 maybe, conservatively, was in my mind before the Keeneland sales. But then Corniche started to establish a good amount of top horses.”Corniche had 43 yearlings sell at the Keeneland September sale for an average of $203,651. The Coolmore stallion, who stood this past season for $15,000, was also represented by the top-priced lot at last week's Fasig-Tipton California Fall Yearlings Sale when a filly by the juvenile champion sold for $250,000.Kiernan said he has a broodmare band of some 10 head at his Tullynally Farm. The Irishman offered five homebred yearlings in Timonium Tuesday and all but one were purchased in utero at prices from $30,000 to $4,500.“There is a shortage of mares here in Maryland,” Kiernan said of his decision to relocate from New York five years ago. “I'm trying to promote the market and get a little niche, having something that will sell without paying a lot of money.” The post $370K Nyquist Colt Tops ‘Strong’ Renewal of Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.