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Tapit’s Taptastic a Debut Winner at Oaklawn

| 2:27 pm

TAPTASTIC (c, 3, Tapit–Valadorna {GSW & GISP, $670,265}, by Curlin), facing older rivals as the 4-5 favorite in his debut, found running room late to graduate with ease Sunday at Oaklawn. The gray colt was under a hold while racing in tight quarters behind the leaders down the backstretch behind fractions of :23.84 and :48.57. Still waiting for racing room approaching the stretch, Taptastic finally found a narrow opening along the rail and strode to the lead before drawing away to graduate by 1 1/2 lengths over pacesetting Dawn at Normandy (Omaha Beach). The winner is a half-brother to Tuscan Gold (Medaglia d’Oro), GSP, $306,700. Valadorna, second in the 2016 GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, has a yearling colt by Constitution and was bred back to Not This Time last year. The mare is a half-sister to Grade I winner Complexity (Maclean’s Music). Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

1st-Oaklawn, $110,000, Msw, 3-8, 3yo/up, 1m, 1:38.13, my, 1 1/2 lengths.
TAPTASTIC (c, 3, Tapit–Valadorna {GSW & GISP, $670,265}, by Curlin) Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $66,000. O-Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC and Stonestreet Stables LLC; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Steven M. Asmussen.