Maryland-bred Studlydoright was set to return to his home state for Saturday’s $150,000 Laurel Futurity. The colt had a career bankroll of $152,180 entering the race and has already more than earned back his $110,000 purchase price from last year’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale, showcasing the quality of the sale’s graduates.
Just a few days after Studlydoright goes for his latest stakes win, Fasig-Tipton will conduct this year’s Midlantic sale on Tuesday. Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 274 yearlings for the single-session sale at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, but the company was continuing to review supplemental entries.
Studlydoright is among the sale graduates featured on this year’s catalog covers, along with regionally bred 2024 graded stakes winners Post Time, a Maryland-bred purchased for $85,000 in 2021 and who is nearing millionaire status; I’m Very Busy, a Pennsylvania-bred purchased for $50,000 in 2021; and Neecie Marie, a Pennsylvania-bred purchased for $25,000 in 2021.
“Midlantic fall graduates have notched nearly 60 stakes wins or placings in 2024 alone, including a bevy of quality graded stakes winners,” Paget Bennett, Fasig-Tipton’s Midlantic director of sales, said in a press release. “Yearlings from the Midlantic region are well raised, and their results on the racetrack bear that out year after year.”
Studlydoright, by Nyquist, was bred in Maryland by Glenangus Farm and was purchased out of the 2023 Midlantic fall sale by Mens Grille Racing. He won his debut at Laurel for trainer John Robb, then bested open company in the Tremont Stakes at Saratoga. He continued to compete there over the summer, finishing second in the Grade 3 Sanford, then seventh in the Grade 1 Hopeful, both with some trouble.
Studlydoright is part of a strong juvenile crop for the precocious 2015 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner and divisional champion Nyquist, who went on to win the 2016 Kentucky Derby. Now standing at Darley, Nyquist passed his precocity on to his own runners, with Juvenile Fillies winner and champion Vequist helping him become the leading freshman sire of 2020. His current juveniles represent the crop conceived after that early success, and, in addition to Studlydoright, he is the sire of Grade 1-winning fillies Immersive and Tenma from this crop.
Nyquist’s success also has led to strong results at this year’s yearling sales. He sired three seven-figure yearlings at the recent Keeneland September yearling sale and averaged $323,556 from 45 yearlings at that auction – against a conception stud fee of $55,000 – to rank among the top 10 sires at the sale.
In addition to having Studlydoright emerge from last year’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale, Nyquist sired the overall sale-topper, a $205,000 colt who has yet to race. The stallion is represented by four yearlings in this year’s edition of the sale, all closely related to stakes performers, and many eligible for regional rewards. His offerings are a Maryland-bred half-brother to stakes winners Street Lute and Alottahope; a Maryland-bred colt whose second dam is champion My Miss Aurelia; a Virginia-bred filly out of four-time stakes winner Crabcakes; and a Kentucky-bred half-sister to Grade 3-placed stakes winner Red Knobs.
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall always offers yearlings from a wide variety of statebred programs. In addition to Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky, those represented this year are Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia.
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