Tapit

Tapit
Sire Pulpit
Grandsire A.P. Indy
Dam Tap Your Heels
Damsire Unbridled
Sex Stallion
Foaled 2001
Country United States
Colour Gray
Breeder Oldenburg Farms, LLC
Owner Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC & Colleen Boyd
Trainer Michael Dickenson
Record 6: 3–0–0
Earnings $557,300
Major wins
Laurel Futurity Stakes (2003)
Wood Memorial Stakes (2004)
Awards
Leading sire in North America (2014, 2015)

Tapit (foaled February 27, 2001, in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Out of the Unbridled mare Tap Your Heels, he was sired by Pulpit.

Lightly raced at 2, Tapit won a 7 3/4-furlong maiden special weight and the Grade II Laurel Futurity Stakes. He made his 3-year-old debut in the Florida Derby on March 13 and finished sixth in the Grade 1 race, but his poor finish was later explained by the discovery of a lung infection. He bounced back in April, coming from last to win the Grade I Wood Memorial Stakes by half a length over Master David.

Tapit was the 5–1 second choice in the 2004 Kentucky Derby and finished ninth behind Smarty Jones. He was scheduled to race in the 2004 Belmont Stakes but was scratched due to a return of the lung infection. In his last race, the Sept. 6, 2004, Pennsylvania Derby, he finished ninth.

His progeny includes 2008 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Champion Stardom Bound; 2009 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Tapitsfly;Hansen, winner of the 2011 Breeders' Cup Juvenile); 2012 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner Tapizar; 2014 Kentucky Oaks winner Untapable; and 2014 Belmont Stakes winner Tonalist. His recent progeny of note include a chestnut colt out of Zenyatta foaled April 1, 2013, later named Ziconic.

He stands 16 hands (64 inches, 163 cm) high.[1]

Tapit was the leading U.S.- based sire by gross, average and median earnings in 2014 and 2015, with his yearlings selling for an average of $402,243 and a median of $317,500. He stood at Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, for a fee of $150,000 stands and nurses for the 2012 breeding season. This fee was increased to $300,000 for the 2015 breeding season.

Pedigree

Pedigree of Tapit, gray or roan colt, 2001[2]
Sire
Pulpit (USA)
1994
A.P. Indy (USA)
1989
Seattle Slew Bold Reasoning
My Charmer
Weekend Surprise Secretariat
Lassie Dear
Preach (USA)
1989
Mr. Prospector Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Narrate Honest Pleasure
State
Dam
Tap Your Heels (USA)
1996
Unbridled (USA)
1987
Fappiano Mr. Prospector
Killaloe
Gana Facil Le Fabuleux
Charedi
Ruby Slippers (USA)
1982
Nijinsky II Northern Dancer
Flaming Page
Moon Glitter In Reality
Foggy Note

Tapit is inbred 3×4 to Mr. Prospector and 5×3 to Nijinsky II

References

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