Never televised in primetime and hardly known outside racing circles, 4-year-old Flightline is favored for a grand opening, and grand finale, in today’s Breeders’ Cup, ByPatForde writes
Outlined against an orange-pink October sky, the horseman rode again. Juan Leyva, the only exercise rider for perhaps the greatest American racehorse of the 21st century, spurred his mount from a trot into a gallop at the five-eighths pole on the Keeneland Race Course backstretch and was gone.
When that workout was complete, it was all systems go in the Breeders’ Cup Classic for Flightline, the best horse you’ve never heard of. A 4-year-old who missed the Triple Crown campaign of 2021, he’s produced five victories of mythic proportion. Now the moment is at hand Saturday in Lexington, Ky., for both his grand introduction and final validation. Hello and goodbye, perhaps, all at once.
“They’re the benchmark you’d compare horses with,” Beyer continues. “I picked Flightline [in the Classic] and expect to have his name mentioned in the same breath with some of those legendary horses.” Ghostzapper did back that up with a 124-speed rating in winning the Breeders' Cup Classic later that year, marking him as the one horse in the last two decades that some will rank ahead of Flightline . Recent Triple Crown winners American Pharoah and Justify ? Nope. Neither of them touched Flightline’s Pacific Classic number in any of their races.
“Because I know better,” the 66-year-old says. “If you take care of the horse, they take care of you. … We let the horse lead us. We try to be good stewards with him, because he’s got such talent.”In Flightline’s case, the biggest reason for moving slowly is visible on his right hind end. A large, L-shaped scar traces where stitches were needed to sew up a gash suffered when he backed into a stall latch at age 2—a wound that took about three months to heal.
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