{"id":1059332,"date":"2026-06-30T09:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1059332\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:27:21","slug":"bob-baffert-delays-zedan-debut-as-10-5m-colt-is-pointed-to-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1059332\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Baffert Delays Zedan Debut As $10.5m Colt Is Pointed To Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bob Baffert has said Zedan, the record $10.5million Flightline colt, is unlikely to be rushed into an early debut after arriving in his California programme without a published workout.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two-year-old was bought by Amr Zedan for a record price at the OBS April Sale and has immediately become one of the most watched unraced juveniles in the United States. But Baffert has made clear that the colt\u2019s price tag will not dictate his timetable.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoroughbreddailynews.com\/baffert-taking-his-time-with-10-5-million-purchase-zedan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thoroughbred Daily News<\/a>, Baffert said he was \u201cgoing easy\u201d with Zedan and viewed him as \u201cmore of a fall horse\u201d, adding that the youngster\u2019s talent was already obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Zedan timetable puts patience ahead of hype<\/p>\n<p>The update matters because Zedan is not just another expensive breeze-up purchase. He is by Flightline, the unbeaten Horse of the Year whose first crop is being tracked closely by breeders, buyers and racing fans on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>Baffert also gave a positive report on Faran, another Amr Zedan-owned prospect, after the $3.4m Not This Time colt won on debut at Los Alamitos on Saturday despite still being green.<\/p>\n<p>That comparison underlines the approach with Zedan: raw ability is not the issue, but timing is. For now, the sport\u2019s most expensive juvenile is being trained with an autumn target rather than an immediate public unveiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob Baffert has said Zedan, the record $10.5million Flightline colt, is unlikely to be rushed into an early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1059333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4107],"tags":[290869,34542,115909,288,290870,1071,79,16,15,290871],"class_list":["post-1059332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-amr-zedan","tag-bob-baffert","tag-flightline","tag-horse-racing","tag-obs-april-sale","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-zedan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116838351118673120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1059333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}