One day after putting on one of the greatest racing performances in Breeders' Cup Classic history, Flightline has been retired from the races for a lucrative stud career, it was reported.
He didn’t race very often, but Flightline ended his career lauded as one of the greatest thoroughbreds to ever hit the racetrack — earning comparisons to the likes of Secretariat after an astonishing 19-length victory in the Pacific Classic at Del Mar Race Course in San Diego back in September.
In doing so, Flightline likely cemented his status as Horse of the Year, as he beat a Classic field that also included Travers Stakes champion Epicenter, who did not finish and was vanned off due to injury; Olympiad, who won the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga and finished second; and Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike, who wound up finishing a distant fourth.
“We would like to thank trainer John Sadler and his team for the incredible work they did with Flightline,” Bill Farish of Lane’s End Farm told the Thoroughbred Daily News in announcing Flightline’s retirement. “His historic performances are a credit to their expertise and unwavering efforts to bring out the very best in the horse.”With Flightline’s racing career at an end, the conversation turns to where he ranks among the greatest thoroughbreds of all time.
And Flightline put those doubts to rest with a jaw-dropping showing in the Pacific Classic, destroying five other competitors and pulling away through the stretch in a scene that eerily resembledFlightline ran the 1 1/4 miles at Del Mar in a near-record time of 1:59.28; by comparison, Secretariat won the 1973 Kentucky Derby, at the same distance, in a time of 1:59.4.
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