Don first got interested in horses as a small boy in Baltimore when he crossed the street to ride ponies at a church fair. He continued to ride as a teen into a Navy stint, then came home to gallop hunters and jumpers at several local farms before working for a veterinarian for a 3 1/2 year stint that he credits for teaching him a lot about the basics of the breeding and racing industry. He eventually purchased an old horse van and started a local vanning business, then eventually opened Litz Bloodstock Services in the early 1980’s. Don has sold horses at regional and national auctions since that time, as well as acting as an advisor to clients on their purchases and sales of horses as well as mating decisions for their mares. He consigned a Silver Deputy colt to the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale in 2004 that sold for $500,000, a record for a yearling in the mid-Atlantic auction market.

It was his concept of a new stallion operation in Maryland, located in the historic Worthington Valley, that led to the creation of the Maryland Stallion Station and its establishment on a site that was once part of Alfred Vanderbilt’s famed Sagamore Farm.

Contact Donald P. Litz 410-253-2856