FLIGHTLINE

Multiple Eclipse Champion Flightline was bred by Jane Lyon’s Summer Wind Farm and raced by Summer Wind in partnership with Hronis Racing, Siena Farm, West Point Thoroughbreds and Woodford Racing. A $1-million Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase from the Lane’s End consignment, Flightline was trained by John Sadler and was ridden in all six of his starts by Flavien Prat.

Flightline’s victory in the $6-million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland was the culmination of an historic career in which he won all six starts— by a combined 71 lengths -- including four Grade 1s. Flightline was the world’s highest-rated racehorse in 2022, having been assigned a mark of 139 following his 19 1⁄4-length victory in the Pacific Classic (G1) . He is the highest-rated dirt horse in history. Facing the strongest field he had ever met in the Classic, Flightline stalked four-time Grade 1 winner Life Is Good through hot fractions before collaring that rival at the quarter pole and drawing clear under a hand ride. He earned triple-digit Beyers in all six starts - 121, 126, 112, 118, 114, 105.

Flightline's first-crop yearlings made a splash at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. With the highest priced colt and filly for a first-crop sire - $1,800,000 and $1,100,000 respectively. The success continued into Keeneland September with the book one topping filly, selling for $2,200,000, along with seven other seven-figure sales. His commercial success continued in 2026 at the 2-year-old in training sales. He shattered the OBS juvenile sales record with a colt out of Lucrezia bringing $10,500,000.