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For Camille Booker, A Fasig-Tipton Auctioneering First Years In The Making

(cover photo)Camille Booker at the Fasig-Tipton Fall Yearlings Sale | Fasig-Tipton

By Jessica Martini, thoroughbrdailynews.com

TIMONIUM, MD – Camille Booker, who first made her presence known in the Thoroughbred industry as a bidspotter at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale in 2023, became the first woman to auctioneer for the sales company when she took to the rostrum Tuesday at the Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale in Timonium. While it may have been a first for Fasig-Tipton, it was far from a first sale for Booker, a third-generation auctioneer from Washington.

“It was fun. It was great,” Booker said in between stints on the stand Tuesday. “I think it took a little bit to understand some of the little differences that are at a horse sale versus other events that I work at. But once I processed all of that, it went smoothly.”

Booker's roots in auctioneering go back to her grandparents and father, who started Booker Auction Company in Washington in 1980.

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