Zedan Racing Stables pays sale-record $10.5 million for Flightline colt

A $10.5 million bid from Zedan Racing Stables, with Maverick Racing acting as agent, turned Hip 1056 into the most expensive 2-year-old ever sold at Ocala Breeders’ Sales and put a towering price on Flightline’s first-crop promise.

The colt by the unbeaten champion drew the kind of attention that only comes when speed, scope and pedigree line up in one package. He had already flashed that appeal in the under-tack show, when he worked a furlong in :09 3/5, and the final hammer price on Friday, April 17, at the close of the four-day OBS Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale showed how far buyers were willing to stretch for a colt with major upside. Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds consigned the colt, and OBS said he was bought as a weanling for $575,000 at the 2024 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

The number reset the benchmark in a hurry. It shattered the previous OBS auction record of $3 million, set by Brant at the March 2025 sale, and it also made Hip 1056 the second-highest-priced 2-year-old ever sold in North America, behind only The Green Monkey’s $16 million price at the 2006 Fasig-Tipton Florida Select Sale. Against that backdrop, this colt’s $10.5 million tag was not just a sale topper. It was a statement about the Flightline brand and about a market still willing to chase elite dirt talent at any cost.

The rest of the week had already pointed toward a strong market. A Jackie's Warrior filly brought $2.3 million on Day 2, and an Epicenter colt sold for $1.95 million on Day 1, but neither came close to the final-session shock wave. OBS cataloged 1,220 horses for the sale, and the biggest money landed late, after the colt had already become one of the show’s most talked-about breezers.

Randy Hartley described the colt as one of the smartest horses he had ever been around, while Bob Baffert was among those impressed by what he saw. That kind of praise, paired with the :09 3/5 breeze and the Flightline connection, helps explain the gamble. To cash a $10.5 million ticket, the colt will need far more than a fast breeze in Central Florida. He will need to look like a colt built for the best races in America from the first starts onward.