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Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred, the monthly magazine published by the Maryland Horse Breeders Association in Reisterstown, received multiple honors in the annual American Horse Publications Equine Media Awards for material published in 2025.
A colt by Nyquist purchased for $400,000 by West Point Thoroughbreds (LEB agent) from the Scanlon Training & Sales consignment on the first day of the OBS March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale on March 10, was the only Maryland-bred sold of three offered during the three-day auction in Central Florida.
Bred by Bowman & Higgins Stable, R. Larry Johnson and RDM Racing Stable, Hip #114 is the first foal out of multiple stakes-placed Lookin Dynamic, a Lookin At Lucky mare from a family developed over decades by longtime leading Maryland breeder Robert E. Meyerhoff.
A half-sister to stakes winners Another Broad and Dynamic Strike, Lookin Dynamic is out of the stakes winner Dynamic Deputy (by Deputy Minister), a full sister to graded stakes-winning two-time Maryland-bred champion Star Minister and half-sister to three additional stakes horses, including Ohio Derby-G2 winner Stellar Brush.
The son of Nyquist was the $370,000 sales topper from the consignment of Becky Davis at last fall's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic yearling sale in Timonium. He is the most expensive yearling sold at the fall sale since 2016.
Splendora recorded her second Grade 1 victory, and became racing's newest millionaire, after cruising home in the $300,000 B. Wayne Hughes Beholder Mile Stakes for fillies and mares at Santa Anita on Saturday, March 7.
With nearly two months in the books, here are a few take-aways among this year's active stallions in Maryland. . .
The Maryland Million Ltd. is proud to announce two new Maryland Million Races running March 22, 2026, each offering $10,000 in bonuses for Maryland Million-eligible horses.
Among the highlights while sifting through 2025 statistics on Maryland-bred runners and Maryland sires, which will appear in the March issue of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred magazine:
After a year that saw him win two consecutive Grade 1 contests and three graded stakes overall while earning $1,407,220, Mindframe has been named the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred of 2025.
The recommended increases in breeder bonuses, presented at today's Maryland Racing Commission meeting by the Maryland Fund Advisory Committee, were passed for the period of January 1 through June 30, 2026.
Respect the Valleys' Dazzling Dame made her first appearance in nearly three months and blew away the field in the one-mile $150,000 Busanda Stakes for sophomore fillies at Aqueduct on Saturday, Jan. 3. In the first 2026 stakes to offer Kentucky Oaks-G1 points, with 20 to the winner, Dazzling Dame now ranks third on the leaderboard with 22 points (just behind Super Corredora and Explora).
