DRF | 5 years ago
The Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s March sale of 2-year-olds in training opened its two-day renewal, and the juvenile sale season in North America, with solid activity from a diverse buying bench at the top of the market, led by a sale record-priced $2 million Tapit colt.
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OBS March sale finding balance after format changes
DRF | 5 years ago
The major-market North American juvenile sale season gets underway with the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s March sale of 2-year-olds in training that begins Tuesday.
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$500,000 Street Sense colt tops Fasig-Tipton October yearling sale; trade down 4 percent
DRF | 5 years ago
A sense of urgency was apparent on the final day of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale, which closes out the yearling sale season in North America. The sale's top two prices, a $500,000 Street Sense colt and a $430,000 Tapit colt, came in the final session as the sale finished with a decline in gross, thanks to slightly fewer horses sold, but a relatively steady average and gain in the median to wrap up what has been a solid season.
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Keeneland yearling sale closes with record average price
DRF | 6 years ago
One decade after the recession that rocked the Thoroughbred industry, the Keeneland September yearling sale, North America's bellwether auction for the market, wrapped its 75th anniversary renewal with a record average price and gross and median figures among the best in its history.
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Keeneland expecting ‘dynamite’ September sale
DRF | 6 years ago
The Thoroughbred bloodstock industry has weathered major changes over the years, from the shifting foal crop, to the advent of stallion shuttling, to a major recession and recovery. But one constant has been the Keeneland September yearling sale, which will celebrate its 75th anniversary renewal from Sept. 10-23.
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81 American Pharoah yearlings cataloged for Keeneland September sale
DRF | 6 years ago
Eighty-one yearlings from the commercially popular first crop of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah and a colt who is a half-brother to Triple Crown winner Justify will be among the highlights as the Keeneland September yearling sale celebrates its 75th anniversary next month.
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Half-sisters of Triple Crown winners near debuts
DRF | 6 years ago
The turn of the calendar to July means the rapid approach of the boutique summer meetings at Del Mar and Saratoga, which annually unveil some of the nation's best-bred 2-year-olds. This year, a half-sister to a Triple Crown winner will be based at each track, adding extra anticipation.
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Sam-Son Farm well armed with two Queen’s Plate contenders
DRF | 6 years ago
Sam-Son Farm's breeding program has given it five victories in the Queen's Plate, and the operation looks to add to that total this weekend at Woodbine with two homebreds from its prominent families. Say the Word and Strike Me Down are both based at Fair Hill with trainer Graham Motion.
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Beyer Sire Performance Standings: War Front leads the way in 2017
DRF | 6 years ago
There are many ways to evaluate a stallion's performance, with those measures evolving as the breeding industry has over the decades. DRF's Beyer Sire Performance Standings, introduced earlier this year and now available as a sortable online tool, provide a way to compare stallion progeny performance in various categories beyond wins and earnings.
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Tapit’s stud fee unchanged for 2018
DRF | 6 years ago
Tapit will continue to stand for an advertised fee of $300,000 in 2018, continuing his reign as the most expensive stallion in North America.
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Tapit leads sires by average at Keeneland September
DRF | 7 years ago
Record-setting leading sire Tapit outslugged familiar commercial rival War Front to rank as Keeneland September's leading sire by average sale price for the third time in his career.
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PR Special Keeneland September: Revisiting Farms Of Yesteryear
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 7 years ago
The Paulick Report is once again pleased to offer its special print publication available online and on the grounds of the Keeneland Association in Lexington, Ky., during the annual September...
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Sparkman: Tapping the well
DRF | 7 years ago
The only thing missing from the burgeoning resume of three-time leading American sire Tapit is a reputation as a sire of sires. At 16 years old, the son of Pulpit has not yet had many opportunities to prove himself on that score, but with more than 30 sons currently at stud, it is highly likely that his eventual success in that sphere is more or less inevitable.
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Sparkman: Tapping the well
DRF | 7 years ago
The only thing missing from the burgeoning resume of three-time leading American sire Tapit is a reputation as a sire of sires. At 16 years old, the son of Pulpit has not yet had many opportunities to prove himself on that score, but with more than 30 sons currently at stud, it is highly likely that his eventual success in that sphere is more or less inevitable.
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Tapwrit strengthens dad’s influence on Belmont Stakes
DRF | 7 years ago
For three consecutive years, Tapit has broken the single-season earnings record for a North American-based sire while leading the continent's general sire list – this, after coming out of the gate by establishing what was then an earnings record for a freshman sire.
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Aldrin retired, will stud at O’Sullivan Farm
DRF | 7 years ago
Aldrin, a half-brother to perennial leading sire Tapit, has been retired from racing and will debut at stud in 2018 at O’Sullivan Farm in Charles Town, W.V.
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Cupid gives Tapit first Grade 1 win of year
DRF | 7 years ago
Cupid's victory in the Grade 1 Gold Cup at Santa Anita last Saturday was an important one - both for himself and his sire.
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After five years, Tapit atop Kentucky Derby points list
DRF | 7 years ago
The Kentucky Derby's points system, which replaced graded stakes earnings as the method for sorting out contenders, completed its fifth year of prep races this spring. The system's half-decade in existence has provided an interesting snapshot of which stallions were most proficient in siring the archetypical Derby prospect.
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Hard Spun’s progeny have solid weekend
DRF | 7 years ago
Both a veteran campaigner and rising stars delivered for Hard Spun over the weekend as the Darley sire enjoyed a solid run. The stallion was represented by three winners, led by his 7-year-old millionaire Hard Aces, who won the Grade 3 Tokyo City Cup going 1 1/2 miles Sunday at Santa Anita.
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Sparkman: Unbridled’s Song in the hunt for pair of sire titles
DRF | 7 years ago
If Arrogate continues his dominant parade through his principal remaining targets of 2017 he could easily earn $18 million to $20 million this year. With $7 million already in the bank and the $6 million first prize for the Dubai World Cup and about $3.5 million for another Breeders’ Cup Classic likely at his mercy, only a few more $1 million prep races would be required for him to earn more in one year than any horse in Thoroughbred history has earned in a career.
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California Chrome now has a Tapit half-brother
DRF | 7 years ago
Love the Chase, dam of California Chrome, delivered a Tapit half-brother to her two-time Horse of the Year at midnight Thursday at Atlas Farm in Nicholasville, Ky.
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Tapit leads all sires with 19 nominees to Triple Crown series
DRF | 7 years ago
Reigning leading sire Tapit, who sired his second American classic winner last year, leads all stallions by early nominations to the 2017 Triple Crown series.
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Beyer Sire Performance Standings: Two of Tapit’s best retire for 2017
DRF | 7 years ago
Two of reigning leading sire Tapit’s best runners from a Beyer Speed Figure standpoint will be among Kentucky’s new stallions of 2017.
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Stallions Deep Impact, Galileo, and Tapit ruled 2016
DRF | 7 years ago
In a year of international synergy in the ever-more-global Thoroughbred bloodstock industry, three stallions dominated: Japanese Triple Crown winner Deep Impact; the ineffable Galileo in Europe; and Tapit, who keeps setting the bar higher for himself in North America.
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Tapit breaks his own single-season record for progeny earnings
DRF | 7 years ago
With more than a month remaining in 2016, two-time reigning leading sire Tapit has again broken his own single-season progeny earnings record for a North American stallion.
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Belmont Stakes winner Creator retired, sold to Japan
DRF | 8 years ago
Creator, winner of the 2016 Belmont Stakes, has been sold to the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders’ Association, which intends to retire the colt from racing and stand him at Shizunai Stallion Station in Hokkaido, Japan, for the 2017 breeding season.
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Sparkman: Tapit and War Front rule Keeneland
DRF | 8 years ago
The natural order of the Thoroughbred marketplace dictates that leading sires become leading commercial sires. Buyers at yearling sales, first and foremost, are looking for top racehorses, and sires at or near the top of the General Sire List have proven their ability to produce those horses. The biggest buyers, however, also are looking for top racehorses with what are loosely deemed “stallion pedigrees,” and current fashion can influence those purchases almost as much as pure racetrack results.
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High average offers no guarantee
DRF | 8 years ago
When horses sell for as much money as they did at the first three days of the Keeneland September sale, it looks like it's an easy game for consignors. It's not. For every one that sells for a lot of money, there's usually another one that barely brings the stud fee.
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Grade 1 dead heat for Tapit daughters
DRF | 8 years ago
Two-time reigning leading sire Tapit recorded a rare feat on Saturday at Saratoga when his daughters Pretty City Dancer and Sweet Loretta finished in a dead heat for the win in the Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes.
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Simon: Taking a gamble on next hot new sire
DRF | 8 years ago
Buyers have every reason to be skeptical of young sires when looking for a racing prospect, because it's hard to predict whether a sire will succeed. But that does not prevent buyers from gravitating toward young sires. There's nothing more exciting to a potential racehorse owner than an unproven sire, a blank canvas of potential limited only by the imagination.
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Simon: Feast or famine for consignors in current auction climate
DRF | 8 years ago
The stock market is near an all-time high, purses on average have never been better, and handle on racing is finally showing stability after years of declines. These factors should have positively affected the commercial auction market for racing prospects; instead, Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's yearling sale last Tuesday cast a wet blanket on things. The sale recorded an unusually high 37.5 percent buyback rate, total receipts were down, the average price was down, and the median price declined.
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Tapit in familiar spot atop sires list
DRF | 8 years ago
Through the first two legs of the Triple Crown, the stories told were of freshman phenom Uncle Mo, whose scores of stakes performers from his first crop include Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist, and of young classic juggernaut Curlin, whose latest top runner is Preakness Stakes winner Exaggerator. Suspiciously quiet was Tapit, as North America's two-time reigning leading sire failed to record a placing with three individual starters in those two races.
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Sparkman: Big Belmont Stakes Day puts Tapit back on top
DRF | 8 years ago
Two-time leading American sire Tapit had a very good day Saturday. Not long after his 4-year-old son Frosted ran away with the prestigious Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, his 3-year-old son Creator became Tapit’s second Belmont Stakes winner with his final-stride victory over Destin. Those two victories assured Tapit of his accustomed place atop the American general sire list.
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Following throat surgery, Cupid looks to rebound in Easy Goer
DRF | 8 years ago
The Cupid that led from start to finish to win the Grade 2 Rebel so impressively this spring would likely win the 1 1/16-mile Easy Goer, which drew a field of only five 3-year-olds and goes as the first race on the Belmont Stakes program. The Cupid that ran 10th after forcing the early issue in the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby would not.
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Uncle Mo lands the haymaker against Tapit
Horse Racing Bloggers | Sid Fernando | 8 years ago
All spring leading up to the Derby, heavyweights Uncle Mo, the bay challenger, and Tapit, the gray champion, traded blows each weekend, it seemed, with one or the other landing major punches in the runup to the main event. And these weren’t the fluffy nothings like those thrown in a fight between “pastel bros” captured here …
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Uncle Mo lands the haymaker against Tapit
Horse Racing Bloggers | Sid Fernando | 8 years ago
All spring leading up to the Derby, heavyweights Uncle Mo, the bay challenger, and Tapit, the gray champion, traded blows each weekend, it seemed, with one or the other landing major punches in the runup to the main event. And these weren’t the fluffy nothings like those thrown in a fight between “pastel bros” captured here …
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Derby sire-line facts
Horse Racing Bloggers | Sid Fernando | 8 years ago
Since Spectacular Bid, the champion 2-year-old colt of 1978, won the Derby in 1979, two other champion juvenile colts have emulated him in the ensuing 36 years: American Pharoah in 2015 and Street Sense in 2007. This isn’t a flattering endorsement for championship form at 2 for the Derby, and it extends to the winners of the …
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PR Special Derby Edition: American Pharoah’s ‘Untold Story’
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 8 years ago
The Paulick Report is pleased to offer a special print publication for Kentucky Derby 142. In this edition of the PR Special, New York Times two-time Eclipse Award-winning sports writer Joe Drape...
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PR Special Derby Edition: American Pharoah’s ‘Untold Story’
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 8 years ago
The Paulick Report is pleased to offer a special print publication for Kentucky Derby 142. In this edition of the PR Special, New York Times two-time Eclipse Award-winning sports writer Joe Drape...
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Sires take shot at rare Kentucky Oaks-Derby double
DRF | 8 years ago
Two-time leading sire Tapit and first-crop phenom Uncle Mo hold the strongest hands of the five stallions looking to pull off a rare Kentucky Derby-Kentucky Oaks double this week.
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Handling Tapit’s progeny often is no easy task
DRF | 8 years ago
The blood runs hot in the Thoroughbred, and few are hotter right now – on a number of levels – than those by Tapit.
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PR Special OBS April: How Much For That Graded Stakes Winner?
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 8 years ago
The Paulick Report is once again pleased to offer a special print publication, available here and on the sales grounds at the OBS April Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds. In this edition of the PR...
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PR Special OBS April: How Much For That Graded Stakes Winner?
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 8 years ago
The Paulick Report is once again pleased to offer a special print publication, available here and on the sales grounds at the OBS April Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds. In this edition of the PR...
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Dam of Tapit dies at 20
DRF | 8 years ago
Tap Your Heels, a stakes winner and the dam of record-breaking sire Tapit, died Thursday due to foaling complications. She was 20.
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Three Tapits at Meydan
Horse Racing Bloggers | Sid Fernando | 8 years ago
The champion sire and most expensive horse in North America will be represented by an eclectic trio on Dubai World Cup day, and it’s possible by next week that all the chatter will be about Tapit again because one, two, or all three could win. Frosted is Tapit’s main chance, and he’s the most straightforward …
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The graying of America
Horse Racing Bloggers | Sid Fernando | 8 years ago
Just a few Tapits from the last year or so, some accomplished, others on the way up. Of course all the good ones are not all gray, but run against them and you’ll get gray quickly. TAPIT @Gainesway, Sires the 2016 Rebel S.-G2 winner, Cupid, by Tapit shown with Neil Drysdale, trainer of A.P.Indy pic.twitter.com/ug48aj9ljo — …
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Havre de Grace has Tapit foal
DRF | 8 years ago
Horse of the Year Havre de Grace delivered her third foal, a filly by two-time leading sire Tapit, on Saturday night at Timber Town Farm near Lexington, Ky.
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Tapit, Uncle Mo continue to rock ‘n’ roll
Horse Racing Bloggers | Sid Fernando | 8 years ago
With apologies to Led Zeppelin, the song remains the same for Uncle Mo and Tapit each weekend, it seems. Both stallions are represented by the two leading contenders for the Kentucky Derby, Nyquist for Uncle Mo and Mohaymen for Tapit, and the two undefeated 3-year-olds are scheduled to meet on a crash course before the …
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Trappe Shot next up for Tapit
Horse Racing Bloggers | Sid Fernando | 8 years ago
Tapit has started off 2016 where he left off at the end of 2015, and his headliners this week are Frosted, a very impressive winner in Dubai yesterday, and Mohaymen, the pro-tem leader of the 3-year-old division. Top sons will mean stallion sons, and Tapit will have every opportunity to establish his credentials as a …
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Wests’ 3-year-old prospects profiled
Horse Racing Bloggers | Sid Fernando | 8 years ago
On Monday, the TDN ran a piece on four promising 3-year-olds owned by Gary and Mary West, each trained by Wayne Catalano and headed by “TDN Rising Star” Malibu Sunset, a 10 1/2-length maiden special winner at Fair Grounds Sunday. You can read the article here. This is the time of year when hope springs eternal …
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