Pedigree Insights by Andrew Caulfield
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Andrew Caulfield, January 18, 2011-Tapizar PEDIGREE INSIGHTS BY ANDREW CAULFIELD SHAM S.-GIII, $100,000, SAX, 1-15, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 1:40 1/5, ft. 1--#@TAPIZAR, 118, c, 3, by Tapit 1st Dam: Winning Call, by Deputy Minister 2nd Dam: Call Now, by Wild Again 3rd Dam: Carols Christmas, by Whitesburg O/B-Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC (KY); T-Steven M Asmussen; J-Garrett K Gomez; $60,000. Lifetime Record: 5-2-0-1, $105,632. Werk Nick Rating: A+ Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the brisnet.com chart or the brisnet.com PPs. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. Reading between the lines, it looks as though Ron Winchell and his mother Joan were well aware of the potential of one of their 2007 juveniles, Pyro, before this homebred son of Pulpit made a winning debut in July 2007. A few weeks earlier, the Winchells had sent another mare from the same family to be mated to Pulpit=s son Tapit, the result being a colt born May 6, 2008. The Tapit colt=s birth came just three days after Winchell Thoroughbreds had suffered a sizeable disappointment with Pyro. He had started third favorite behind Tapizar Benoit photo Big Brown and Colonel John in the Kentucky Derby on the strength of clear-cut victories in the GIII Risen Star S. and GII Louisiana Derby. Unfortunately, he failed to reproduce the same high level of form--just as he had in the GI Blue Grass S.--in finishing a never-dangerous eighth. TAPIZAR, c, 2008 Seattle Slew A.P. Indy Weekend Surprise Pulpit Mr. Prospector Preach Narrate Tapit Fappiano Unbridled Gana Facil Tap Your Heels Nijinsky Ruby Slippers Moon Glitter Northern Dancer Vice Regent Victoria Regina Deputy Minister Bunty’s Flight Mint Copy Winning Call Shakney 4-1-1-0 Icecapade 7Fls, 1GSW Wild Again Call Now Bushel-n-Peck GSW, $368,765 6Fls, 1SP Carols Christmas Whitesburg 10Fls, 2GSW, 1SW Light Verse Caulfield cont. www.coolmore.com Caulfield cont. However, it is the easy-moving Tapizar, winner of the GIII Sham S. with his ears pricked, who is potentially Perhaps the 10th furlong was a little beyond Pyro, the best of Winchell Thoroughbreds= homebred Tapits. even though he went on to finish third in the GI Travers His stylish Santa Anita triumph, together with his S. After passing into the ownership of Godolphin, Pyro wide-margin victory at Churchill Downs in November, reverted to shorter distances and repaid the move with raise the possibility that--if he continues to progress--he a Grade I victory in the 2009 Forego S. He is now part could even erase the painful memories of the of Darley=s stallion team in Japan. disappointing Kentucky Derby efforts of Tapit and Pyro. Of course, Winchell Thoroughbreds also campaigned Tapit has made such an eye-catching start that his Tapit, whose career featured the Kentucky Derby as fee now stands at $80,000 in his seventh year at stud. well. With his Classic credentials including an The first two years were spent at $15,000, with the impressive victory in the GIII Laurel Futurity and a win next two at $12,500. The lower fee was no doubt in the GI Wood Memorial S., Tapit started third choice designed to offset the lessening in demand that affects behind Smarty Jones and so many young stallions, but this strategy wasn=t Lion Heart for the 2004 necessary with Tapit. Having covered 142 mares in his Derby, but never threatened first season and 104 in his second, Tapit was much in in finishing ninth. demand in his third year, thanks to the excellent I discussed Tapit with his reception his first weanlings had received at the 2006 trainer Michael Dickinson breeding stock sales. He achieved an average of over when we met at the $108,000 with 13 weanlings and, consequently, December Sales, and he covered 174 mares in 2007, including the dam of feels that rushing Tapit back Tapizar. His current three-year-old crop also includes Tapit gainesway.com from illness to contest the Grade I winner Tell A Kelly, Grade II winner Wood Memorial effectively Dancinginherdreams, Grade I-placed Joyful Victory and Abottomed@ the son of Pulpit. This prompted me to Grade II-placed fillies Tap For Luck and Zazy, plus the re-read the coverage of Tapit=s win in the Wood. stakes winners Bandbox, Golden Set and Never Right AWhen we came home from Florida, we did an Joey. ultrasound and it showed a very significant lung There=s every reason to expect Tapit to keep up the infection,@ Dickinson told The Blood-Horse. AWe did good work, as he covered 117 mares in his fourth another ultrasound two weeks later and one lung was season, 170 to Northern Hemisphere time in his fifth 100 percent and the other was 80 percent. We gave (when his fee rose to $35,000) and 169 in his sixth (at him a little five-furlong breeze, and he could blow a a fee of $50,000). house down. I was going to wheel him back and work Tapizar is easily the best of the first six foals out of him a mile, but I told [owner Ron Winchell and manager Deputy Minister=s daughter Winning Call, although his David Fiske], >I=ve got to give him as long as I dare to predecessors include his winning sister Tamboz. It=s get him healthy and give the lungs a chance to heal.= It encouraging, from a stamina viewpoint, that other takes 28 days for the lung to get a new lining.@ Deputy Minister mares are responsible for such as Rags With Tapit needing more graded-stakes earnings to to Riches, Jazil, Curlin, Sarava, Telling, Magistretti, ensure his place in the Kentucky Derby field, his Request For Parole and Persistently--all Grade I winners connections took the gamble of sending a over a mile and a quarter or more. The GI Belmont S. less-than-fully-fit colt to the Wood Memorial. winner Sarava was by Wild Again, which is interesting AWhat Dickinson feared going into the Wood,@ The as Wild Again also sired Tapizar=s second dam, the Blood-Horse reported, Awas that Tapit, being such a GI Del Mar Debutante S. winner Call Now. The first generous and competitive horse, would try too hard winner of the Breeders= Cup Classic was also and give more than what was expected of him.@ responsible for Pyro=s dam, Wild Vision, who is a Dickinson=s expectation was that Tapit would come three-parts-sister to Call Now. Alate and easy@ to take the $75,000 third prize, but Wild Vision=s brother Wild Wonder raced 20 times Tapit hadn=t read the script. Although he landed the between the ages of two and five, showing his best $450,000 first prize, he disappointed in both his form at four, when his three graded wins included the subsequent starts before retiring to Gainesway. GII Mervyn LeRoy H. over a mile and a sixteenth. Wild Although Tapit=s racing career petered out, he has Wonder was fast enough to set a track record over a continued to reward the Winchells in his role as a mile at four, and his only stakes success at five came stallion. Pyro=s dam Wild Vision visited Tapit in 2005 to over six furlongs. produce War Echo, winner of the GIII Silverbulletday S. Tapizar=s second dam Call Now was also a half-sister for the Winchells, who also bred and raced the talented to Olympio, who took the Minnesota, Arkansas and Retap and the stakes-winning Remit. They also raced Hollywood Derbys over nine furlongs and the American the Grade III winner Hightap in partnership with Derby over a mile and a quarter, as well as being fast Gainesway, with this partnership also breeding the enough to win the Malibu S. over seven furlongs. GIII Comely S. winner Touching Beauty. Caulfield cont. His third dam Carols Christmas figures as the second dam of no fewer than five graded winners in addition to Wild Wonder, the others being the Futurity S. winner Cuvee, sprinters Early Flyer and Will He Shine, and million dollar earner Bien Nicole. There is plenty of speed in this family, but Tapizar=s four great-grandsires include A.P. Indy, Unbridled and Wild Again, all major winners over a mile and a quarter or more, so there=s reason to hope that lack of stamina won=t prove his Achilles heel on the Classic trail..