Record breaking event

Hip 1056, a son of champion Flightline, sold for an all-time Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. record $10.5 million on the final day of the April sale. [Photo courtesy OBS]

The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s spring sale of 2-year-old thoroughbreds in training, from April 14 to 17, ended with a record $10.5 million paid for a son of Flightline.

Hip number 1056, out of Lucrezia, was consigned by Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds LLC and was bought by Zedan Racing Stables, Inc.

“With one record already in their pockets after selling a record-priced filly earlier in the week, Randy Hartley and Dean DeRenzo helped orchestrate the biggest moment in the sales company’s history when Hip 1056 justified his paparazzi-like following by selling for an all-time OBS record of $10.5 million to agent Donato Lanni on behalf of Zedan Racing on the final day of a spring sale that set new highwater achievements across-the-board,” an OBS news release stated.

“Before a capacity crowd that overfilled the pavilion and erupted in cheers when the final bid was cemented, the Flightline colt shattered the previous record OBS price of $3 million established when Zedan Racing purchased future Grade 1 winner Brant at the 2025 March Sale. He also ranks as the second-highest priced horse to sell at any 2-year-old sale, a fitting milestone for a horse that had every major buyer in the marketplace clamoring to claim him, especially in the wake of his effortless :9 3/5 breeze during the under-tack show,” the release noted.

Even before Friday’s session got underway, the April auction had already seen its share of highlights including Hip 570, a dark bay or brown filly by Jackie’s Warrior consigned by Hartley/DeRenzo that became the highest priced filly to sell at OBS when she elicited a final bid of $2.3 million from Dermot Farrington on behalf of Mrs. Fitriani Hay during the sale’s second session.

The 2026 OBS April Sale gross receipts of $113,823,000 from 637 head sold surpassed the previous record mark of $92,129,000 established in 2022 and the $88,496,500 generated by 638 head sold in 2025. The cumulative average of $178,686 bested last year’s record mark of $138,709 with the median of $80,000 finishing ahead of last year’s number of $65,000 and toppling the prior record figure of $70,000 set in 2024, the release noted.

Full results can be found at obssales.com