Bob Baffert names record $10.5M colt Zedan after it joins his Santa Anita stable
The colt joined Bob Baffert’s stable at Santa Anita after arriving from Florida, where he was purchased at a sale for 2-year-olds in training by Amr Zedan, one of Baffert’s prominent clients.
ARCADIA, Calif. — A colt that sold for a record $10. 5 million has been named Zedan by Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert.
The colt joined Baffert’s stable at Santa Anita after arriving from Florida, where he was purchased at a sale for 2-year-olds in training by Amr Zedan, one of Baffert’s prominent clients. “He’s a specimen,” Baffert said. “A man among boys.
” It’s the second-highest price ever paid for a 2-year-old thoroughbred in North America. The record is $16 million in 2006 for The Green Monkey, a descendant of Northern Dancer and 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat. But money couldn’t buy success.
Trained by Todd Pletcher, The Green Monkey was retired two years later after failing to win in three career starts. He wasn’t a success as a stallion either. He was euthanized at age 14 in 2018 because of laminitis, a painful condition involving inflammation and damage to the tissue connecting the hoof wall to the coffin bone.