2022 Horse of the Yr Flightline ‘s first crop of weanlings entered the Keeneland gross sales ring for the primary time throughout the Keeneland November Breeding Inventory Sale Nov. 5. They had been met with nice curiosity and intrigue amongst patrons.
“We simply needed a Flightline,” stated Basic Equine’s Randy Hartley. “I’ve seen him since he was being broke and he was simply such a lovely animal.”
Hartley went to $575,000 to accumulate the costliest of the 4 weanlings, a colt consigned as Hip 241 by Lane’s Finish. The son of the two-time stakes-winning Into Mischief mare Lucrezia was a part of the dispersal of Ed Seltzer’s Solera Farm. Ed and Beverly Seltzer bred the colt in partnership with W.S. Farish.
“I see lots of the stallion in them, however I additionally see lots of the mares within the infants,” Hartley stated. “This one regarded rather a lot like Into Mischief. … We’re tremendous completely satisfied to have one.”
The 4 weanlings offered, three colts and a filly, introduced a complete of $1.65 million.
Hartley stated the market appeared aggressive for the weanlings and stated the colt price about what he was anticipating. He plans to carry him again as a yearling in both Fasig-Tipton’s The Saratoga Sale or the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.
“It looks like they have been very effectively acquired they usually’re bringing some cash. I really feel like they are going to be robust this yr,” he stated. “(Hip 241) is a pleasant child, however we all know that there might be some that come via in September that might be monsters. We have to have good infants to promote, so we stretch once we see one thing.”
Additionally a part of the Solera Farm dispersal was Hip 190, a Flightline half brother to grade 3 winner Bluebirds Over (English Channel) out of the Big’s Causeway mare Big Assessment . He was bought for $140,000 by First Finds Farm.
The primary Flightline colt via the ring Tuesday, Hip 147 consigned by Eaton Gross sales, drew $500,000 from J.S. Firm and Japanese coach Yoshito Yahagi.
The Flightline colt consigned as Hip 147 within the ring
“Flightline could be very widespread in Japan,” Yahagi stated in feedback translated by J.S. Firm’s Keisuke Onishi. “I actually needed to buy a Flightline weanling this time.”
Yahagi and Onishi stated that Flightline actually impressed them once they went to go to him at Lane’s Finish Farm, the place he’ll stand the 2025 breeding season for a $150,000 price. Their new buy, bred in Kentucky by Barronstown Stud, is out of the stakes-placed successful Uncle Mo mare Champagne Girl , a full sister to grade 1 winner Mo City .
Yahagi will prepare the colt in Japan.
Hip 178, a filly out of the stakes-winning Into Mischief mare Feeling Mischief , was bought for $435,000 by Tarpon Stables. She was bred in Kentucky by Orpendale and was consigned by Paramount Gross sales.
Flightline’s breeder and co-owner, Jane Lyon of Summer time Wind Equine, was busy on the sale discovering mares to breed to her “dream come true” stallion, however she took time to admire the reception his foals had been receiving.
“(I really feel) greater than pleasure. It is like watching your little one graduate,” Lyon stated. “I need a lot for him to breed only a fraction of his capacity and his coronary heart.”