Tapit Time

Gainesway Farm’s Tapit, who retired for a $15,000 fee in 2005, was the Leading North American freshman sire of 2008, when Stardom Bound won three Grade I races, including the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, and Laragh added the GI Hollywood Starlet. He stood for $35,000 in 2009 (foals of 2010), in which year it became clearer what a strong sire crop it was: though he added a third Grade I-winning filly in Alabama S. winner Careless Jewel, Tapit dropped to third on the 2009 second-crop sire list, behind Medaglia d’Oro, whose Rachel Alexandra won the GI Preakness S. and was Horse of the Year; and another Gainesway sire, Birdstone, who had two Classic winners in his first crop in 2009, Mine That Bird and Summer Bird. Speightstown was fourth on the 2009 second-crop sire list, Candy Ride fifth.

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