Tapit

Pulpit - Tap Your Heels, by Unbridled 2001 gr/ro - Submit Mare
Entered Stud: 2005 - 2013 Fee: $125,000 
    

Tapit News

to Tapit
on 6/14/2013
Barbie Wire waltzed to her first stakes victory in her added money debut, the $85,000 Astronomia...
to Tapit
on 5/23/2013
Winchell Thoroughbreds' homebred Tapit filly Teardrop rolled to a 3 3/4-length victory in her Thursday debut at Churchill Downs...
to Tapit
on 3/16/2013
With an easy win in Saturday’s Santa Margarita S. (G1), Joyful Victory became Tapit's seventh millionaire...
to Tapit
on 3/10/2013
After initially saying he didn’t plan to run Normandy Invasion back in the Preakness, trainer Chad Brown reserves the right to change his mind...
to Tapit
on 2/28/2013
Could Tapit become the most coveted breeding stallion of his generation...
to Tapit
on 2/2/2013
Tapicat started off a huge Feb. 2 for her sire Tapit with a 2 3/4-length, gate-to-wire score in the $200,000 Florida Oaks (G3)...
to Tapit
on 2/2/2013
Flashback rolled to a deceptively easy 6 1/4-length score in Saturday's $200,000 Robert B. Lewis S. at Santa Anita Park...
to Tapit
on 2/2/2013
Honorable Dillon capped off a remarkable Saturday for his sire Tapit with a thrilling win in the Grade 2 Hutcheson S. at Gulfstream Park...
to Tapit
on 1/30/2013
Top-5 sire Tapit had four juveniles weighted on The Jockey Club's 2012 Experimental Free Handicaps for colt and fillies...
to Tapit
on 1/27/2013
Joyful Victory turned in a track record performance to win the inaugural $400,000 Houston Ladies Classic...
to Tapit
on 12/27/2012
Horse of the Year Havre de Grace will be bred to Tapit in 2013, representatives for Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm announced today…
to Tapit
on 12/8/2012
Flashback, a first-time starter by Tapit, was a sparkling 3 1/2-length winner in the 2-year-old colt's unveiling Saturday at Hollywood Park...
to Tapit
on 11/25/2012
Dance Card rolled to a four-length victory in the $350,000 Gazelle S. to give Tapit his fourth Grade 1 winner of 2012...
to Tapit
on 11/6/2012
A pair of Grade 1-winning distaffers by Tapit recently went through the auction ring in Kentucky...
to Tapit
to Tapizar
on 11/2/2012
Tapizar drew away at the top of the Santa Anita stretch to score a decisive 2 1/4-length victory in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile...
to Tapit
on 10/6/2012
Tapitsfly got up in the final strides to take the Grade 1, $350,000 First Lady S. at Keeneland on Saturday...
to Tapit
on 9/23/2012
Tapit's Dance Card made her stakes debut look easy with a 7 1/2-length romp in Sunday's $85,000 Belle Cherie S...
to Tapit
on 9/12/2012
Hip 402, a colt by leading sire Tapit, proved to be the most popular offering on Day 2 of the Keeneland September yearling sale after attracting a final bid of $700,000 by agent John Moynihan...
to Tapit
on 8/6/2012
Goin to the Window outdueled her stablemate to take the $50,000 Angie C. S. for 2-year-old fillies Aug. 6 at Emerald Downs...
to Tapit
on 8/4/2012
Tapizar and Headache made it a Tapit exacta Aug. 4 in the $200,000 West Virginia Governor's S. at Mountaineer Park...

"Hottest Sire on the Planet"

Tapit
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  • "Vying for Hottest Sire on the Planet honors."--Bill Oppenheim in TDN 
  • Four Breeders' Cup winners in his first four crops.
  • Four U.S. Grade 1 winners in 2012: more than any other stallion.
  • North America's #4 Sire and #4 Juvenile Sire of 2012.
  • In 2012: 10 SWs - 24 Stakes Horses - 6 Graded SWs - $11-million: 20 2YO winners - 8 2YO Stakes Horses - $1.4-million in 2YO earnings.
  • 2011/2012 sales: $1,000,000 two-year-old; $725,000 yearling; $700,000 yearling (Session Topper); $650,000 yearling (Session Topper); $700,000 weanling, $850,000 in-foal mare; $775,000 in-foal mare; #1 Filly at Keeneland April; #1 colt at Saratoga Preferred (Sale Topper).
  • ZAZU sold for $2,100,000 at 2012 KEE NOV; TAPITSFLY sold for $1,850,000 at 2012 F-T NOV. 
  • 37 SWs, 20 GSWs, 11 G1 SWs, $38M in his first 5 crops.
  • In the top half of 1% of Sires by Average Earnings per Runner.
  • Champion Freshman and Juvenile Sire his first season.
  • Four Breeders' Cup winners, five millionaires in four crops:
    the 2012 Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1)-runner up in his fifth crop.
  • Top performance on every surface: Champion STARDOM BOUND, winner of five consecutive G1's; Champion and Breeders' Cup winner HANSEN; Breeders' Cup Champion TAPITSFLY; Breeders' Cup Champion TAPIZAR; Eclipse Finalist CARELESS JEWEL-G1; Eclipse Finalist LARAGH-G1; multi-millionaire TESTA MATTA-G1; Breeders' Cup (G1) runner-up He's Had Enough.
  • Undefeated Graded SW at 2 - G1 winner of the Wood Memorial at 3.
  • Classic stallion’s pedigree: By A.P. INDY's best sire PULPIT, out of a SW by UNBRIDLED.
  • Immediate family of Leading Sire RELAUNCH.

Tapit's Race and (Stakes) Record

Age Starts 1st 2nd 3rd Earned
2 2 2 (1) 0 0 $79,800
3 4 1 (1) 0 0 $477,500
Totals 6 3 (2) 0 0 $557,300

Won at 2

  • Laurel Futurity (gr. III, 1 1/16 miles, by 4 3/4, defeating Polish Rifle, Ghost Mountain, Acclimate, Capejinsky, Charismatic Caller, Tym Beau).

  • A maiden special weight race at Delaware Park (1 mile, by 7 3/4, defeating Fancatstik, Mighty Roar, Skip a Dee Doo Dah, Key to the Stars, Julian's Commander, Mt. Washington, Swordmaker).

Won at 3

  • Wood Memorial S (gr. I, 1 1/8 miles, defeating Master David, Eddington, Swingforthefences, Royal Assault, Value Plus, Little Matth Man, Cuba, Consecrate, Sinister G, Hornshope).

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Tapit Generational Pedigree

Dosage Profile:

PULPIT (USA)
dkb/br. 1994
A.P. INDY (USA)
dkb/br. 1989 [IC]
SEATTLE SLEW (USA)
br. 1974 [BC]
BOLD REASONING (USA) br. 1968 *
MY CHARMER (USA) b. 1969 *
WEEKEND SURPRISE (USA)*
b. 1980
SECRETARIAT (USA) ch. 1970 [IC]
LASSIE DEAR (USA) b. 1974 *
PREACH (USA)
b. 1989
MR. PROSPECTOR (USA)
b. 1970 [BC]
  RAISE A NATIVE (USA) ch. 1961 [B]
GOLD DIGGER (USA) b. 1962
NARRATE (USA)*
dkb/br. 1980
HONEST PLEASURE (USA) br. 1973
STATE (USA) b. 1974
TAP YOUR HEELS (USA)
gr. 1996
UNBRIDLED (USA)
b. 1987 [BI]
FAPPIANO (USA)
b. 1977 [IC]
MR. PROSPECTOR (USA)   b. 1970 [BC]
KILLALOE (USA) b. 1970
GANA FACIL (USA)
ch. 1981
LE FABULEUX (FR) ch. 1961 [P]
CHAREDI (USA) dkb/br. 1976
RUBY SLIPPERS (USA)
gr. 1982
NIJINSKY (CAN)
b. 1967 [CS]
NORTHERN DANCER (CAN) b. 1961 [BC]
FLAMING PAGE (CAN) b. 1959 *
MOON GLITTER (USA)
gr. 1972
IN REALITY (USA) b. 1964 [BC]
FOGGY NOTE (USA) gr. 1965
courtesy of Pedigree Query

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Entered Stud: 2005 - 2013 Fee: $125,000