All Equine All The Time

Tapit When Tapit retired in October of 2004, it’s doubtful his level of success was expected by anywhere but his connections’ wildest dreams.   A Grade 1 winning son of Pulpit (A.P. Indy), he was a $625,000 yearling with strong bloodlines standing at an introductory fee of $15,000.   However, even the bluest blooded horses in the stud book aren’t expected to become the sire that Tapit has become.   Tapit’s first foal crop hit the ground running in 2008, with his first champion, Stardom Bound, headlining that group.  Since then he has sired five other champions, including 2011 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Hansen and Distaff winner Untapable.  His first United States classic winner came in 2014 with Tonalist winning the Belmont Stakes, and the colt later went on to win two editions of the Jockey Club Gold Cup.  With 875 northern hemisphere foals of aged 3-years-old or older and 535 winners as of Jan. 1, Tapit has sired 43 graded stakes winn...

Tapit's Book 1 topper out of Silver Colors ‘And you get a Tapit and you get a Tapit and you get a Tapit …’ seemed to be the theme of the first week of the Keeneland September Yearling sale if you were willing to open up your wallet wide enough during the first four sessions of the sale. It seemed early in the week that Claiborne Farm’s War Front might finally get the upper hand on Tapit in the sales ring as he had three of the top five priced horses to go through the ring during the opening session and one of the top five during the second day. But Tapit wasn’t far away from the top of the list either day, with one of his colts RNAing for $1.2-million on Monday (the second highest price of the session if he would have sold) and at least one horse each day in the top 10 highest priced yearlings. But on day three, Tapit was ready for the games to end and handily took over the top of the standings as we’ve come to expect from the stallion. While War Front had three of t...