IFHA World's Best Racehorse (2022)

American Champion Older Dirt Male Horse (2022)

American Horse of the Year (2022)

Sire Tapit

Grandsire Pulpit

Dam Feathered

Damsire Indian Charlie

Sex Stallion

Foaled March 14, 2018[1]

Country United States

Colour Bay

Breeder Summer Wind Equine

Owner Hronis Racing, Siena Farm, Summer Wind Equine, West Point Thoroughbreds & Woodford Racing

Trainer John W. Sadler

Record 6: 6-0-0

Earnings US$4,514,800

Major wins: Malibu Stakes (2021), Metropolitan Handicap (2022), Pacific Classic Stakes (2022), Breeders' Cup Classic (2022)

March 14 - Flightline

This is a very special horse from the moment he was born at Summer Wind Farm. I remember Jane Lyon showing me his dam, Feathered, when she still had a few months to go before delivering him. Jane adores all her horses, but you could sense two things right away, how much Jane loved this new mare and also her hope wrapped around her great expectations for this mare carrying her first foal by one of her favorite stallions, Tapit.

I was fortunate to see him several times as a weanling. I made it a special point to see Feathered and her foal as often as I could. I had promised my friend, Charlie Pigg, that I'd send him photos from time to time of Feathered as he had been a partner of hers during her racing career with Eclipse Partners. Feathered is by Indian Charlie the sire of the great stallion Uncle Mo. Feathered’s dam line goes back to the great Roberto via another big dark stallion, Dynaformer, the sire of Barbaro. I guess every pedigree has tasty morsels, but this big dark mare just had a magnetism as you looked at her, she took you in, studying you closer than you could study her. There are athletes and then there are competitors, Flightline has all of that and more. Yes, He's Tapit but he's Indian Charlie, he's Dynaforner, and he's Roberto . . . four of the great stallions of their eras. They've combined to create possibly the most amazing horse we've seen on the track with his races being complete domination. Now, it's time to see if his greatness will continue those breed shaping sires on both his sire and dam lines. One thing we learned about Flightline at the races - never NEVER bet against FLIGHTLINE!