The primary weanling provided at public public sale in america that was sired by 2022 Horse of the Yr Flightline bought for $675,000 Nov. 4 in the course of the Fasig-Tipton The November Sale in Lexington.
A weanling son of the outstanding @LanesEndFarms stallion #Flightline sells for $675,000 on the @FasigTiptonCo November Sale. pic.twitter.com/54tN2B0KUm
— Sean Collins (@BH_SCollins) November 4, 2024
Hip 26, a colt and the primary foal out of the Medaglia d’Oro mare Star of India, bought to a partnership represented by bloodstock agent David Ingordo. The colt was bred by Ran Jan Racing and consigned by Lane’s Finish, the place Flightline stands.
“I received to look at that horse develop up on the farm, and I actually favored him,” stated Ingordo. “We wish to help the stallion. We consider in Flightline, so when there is a good one, we will attempt to purchase him, and that horse match what we wished.”
The anticipation has been excessive for the primary crop by Flightline, with a share within the stallion promoting final week throughout Keeneland’s inaugural Championship Sale at Del Mar for $2.5 million to his breeder Jane Lyon’s Summer season Wind Equine.
Star of India is out of the Irish-bred Galileo daughter and a number of group winner Up, making her a half sister to grade 2 winner Aspray (High quality Street ) and stakes-placed winners Monarch of Egypt (American Pharoah ) and Khartoum (Pioneerof the Nile).
Ingordo stated he plans to purchase extra of Flightline’s progeny, saying a few of them might come again subsequent yr, and a few might go to the races.
“All of them appear to be him,” Ingordo stated on his impression of the Flightline foals. “I am clearly a fan of him, however they’re uniform. They have loads of measurement, scope. I do not suppose they are going to be like five-and-a-half furlong horses. However they have these massive hind ends, like that horse (Hip 26) appears to be like like he’ll have some rise up and go, as do quite a lot of them.”
Flightline’s stud payment of $150,000 will stay the identical in 2025. The undefeated Tapit colt earned $4,514,800 on the monitor, along with his profession bow coming within the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Basic (G1) at Keeneland, the place he defeated prime horses Olympiad , Wealthy Strike , Life Is Good , and Epicenter .
Flightline, a $1 million yearling at Fasig-Tipton’s The Saratoga Sale, was bought by West Level Thoroughbreds. His first in-foal mares averaged $1,074,431, the very best for an incoming stallion within the final 15 years.
“All in all, I am unable to be happier,” Ingordo stated. “If we did not like them, we would not be shopping for them.”
