(4-17-26) Hip No. 1056 was sold by Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds LLC. to Zedan Racing Stables, Inc., for $10,500,000 during the final session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale on Friday, April 17.
FUN FACT:
With $10.5 million you could buy 105 horses at $100,000
Zedan buys Flightline colt for $10.5-million
A colt from the first crop of Horse of the Year and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Flightline sold for $10.5-million on Friday, April 17, at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. two-year-olds. Amr. Zedan purchased the colt from the consignment of Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds, and Racing Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert will condition the colt. Donato Lanni, agent, signed the ticket.
ROYAL BREEDING
By Flightline the undefeated 2022 Horse of the Year by Tapit, out of graded stakes winner Feathered by Indian Charlie. Dam is Lucrezia, a multiple stakes-winning and graded-placed daughter of Into Mischief (currently a top broodmare sire). Bred in Kentucky by Edward and Beverly Seltzer and W.S. Farish. Flightline’s own elite dirt speed, class, and deep Phipps-family female line (tracing to Fantastic Find/Blitey) give this colt modern commercial appeal plus proven racetrack pedigree depth.
Flightline – Lucrezia – Pedigree —– $125,000 Stud Fee
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Did you know?
Hip# 1056 is the second-highest price ever paid for a 2-year-old at a public auction (behind only The Green Monkey’s $16 million in 2006).
The Record-Breaking Sale
In January/February 2006, at the Fasig-Tipton Calder sale of selected two-year-olds in training …The Green Monkey became a sensation. He breezed an eighth of a mile in a time of 9.8 seconds.
A bidding war erupted between representatives of Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley (Godolphin) and Coolmore Stud (via bloodstock agent Demi O’Byrne, representing Michael Tabor, Susan Magnier, and Derrick Smith). Coolmore won with a record breaking price of $16 million—the highest price ever paid for a Thoroughbred at a public auction (surpassing the previous record of $13.1 million for Seattle Dancer in 1985).
Seattle Dancer was a bay colt sired by Nijinsky II (the 1970 English Triple Crown winner, by Northern Dancer). His dam was My Charmer (by Poker), who also produced Seattle Slew, as well as other stakes winners like Lomond (1983 English 2,000 Guineas winner) and Argosy. He was bred in Kentucky by Warner L. Jones Jr., William S. Farish III, and William S. Kilroy.
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