$10.5M Flightline colt arrives at Baffert's barn after record sale

The Flightline colt who sold for an eye-popping $10.5 million Friday at the Ocala Breeders' Sales spring sale of 2-year-olds in training in Florida arrived at trainer Bob Baffert's barn at Santa Anita late Saturday, shortly before 9 p.m. PDT.

"He's a specimen," Baffert said Sunday morning. "A man among boys really. And with his pedigree, you know why he cost so much."

Bloodstock agent Donato Lanni signed the sales ticket for the colt on behalf of owner Zedan Racing, whose principal is Amr Zedan. The purchase price shattered the all-time Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. record of $3 million, which Zedan paid for Grade 1 winner Brant at the 2025 OBS March 2-year-old sale. The price also ranks as the second-highest ever paid for a 2-year-old in North America. In 2006, The Green Monkey commanded $16 million at the Fasig-Tipton Florida select sale.

Baffert said the colt handled the cross-country trip to Santa Anita so well he likely will go to the track Monday morning for light exercise.

"He's a handful. He's jumping out of his skin," Baffert said.

The bay colt comes from the first crop of Flightline, the brilliant 2022 horse of the year who retired a perfect 6-for-6 with four Grade 1 wins, including the 2022 Breeders' Cup Classic. His dam, two-time stakes winner and Grade 2-placed Lucrezia, is a daughter of perennial top stallion Into Mischief.

Edward Seltzer, Beverly Seltzer and W.S. Farish bred the colt in Kentucky. He first sold at auction as a weanling for $575,000 at the 2024 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds consigned him to the OBS sale. At the under-tack show, the colt wowed onlookers, blazing a furlong in 9.6 seconds.

John Sadler trained Flightline throughout his racing career at Santa Anita. The stallion now stands at Lane's End Farm in central Kentucky, commanding a stud fee of $125,000.