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Stars Lined Up to Buy Tapwrit

Stars But Tapwrit

Tapwrit was one of the top sellers of the 2015 Saratoga Selected Yearling sale. The partnership formed to buy Grade 2 winner and Kentucky Derby contender Tapwrit for $1.2 million was at the same time relatively spur of the moment and years in the making.

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How the Son of Tapit who Almost Broke the Bank May be About to Hit the Jackpot

Crossing a street can be the simplest of task. It’s usually a quick and uneventful process in the everyday life of people in all corners of the world. Yet on one fateful afternoon in August of 2015, the all-too-routine act of walking from one street to another triggered a chain of events that has taken Aron Wellman and his partners on an amazing journey that just might include a coveted stop at Louisville on the first Saturday in May.

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WinStar TDN Derby Top 20

Tapwrit Tampa Bay Derby Win

Mar. 14 TDN Top 12 Rank: 2 Last Start: 1st, GII Tampa Bay Derby, TAM, Mar. 11 Accomplishments Include: 1st, Pulpit S., GP, Dec. 10 Next Start: Possible for GII Blue Grass S., KEE, Apr. 8 Thoro-Graph sheet, Equineline PPs KY Derby Points: 54

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Curalina Honored Again as Aiken-Trained Horse of the Year

Curalina La Troienne - Aiken Trained Horse of the Year

Dogwood Stable President Cot Campbell described Curalina as “a high-class racehorse” that has “a great future ahead of her as a broodmare” during the 2016 Aiken-Trained Horse of the Year ceremony Sunday. In addition, Campbell reminded the audience at the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame and Museum that Curalina had accomplished something “unusual” because […]

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Road to the Derby: Tampa Bay Derby Analysis

Road to the Derby: Tapwrit Tampa Bay Derby

This looked in part like a rerun of the Sam F. Davis Stakes from four weeks prior, with the second- through fourth-place finishers taking the first three spots. So while TAPWRIT finished first, the big winner may have been Sam Davis winner McCraken, whose form certainly was flattered by Tapwrit.

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Eclipse Hits A Rare Stakes Daily Double: Tapwrit Wins Pulpit Stakes In Florida and Lady Valeur Scores In Miss America In Cali

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Trainer Todd Pletcher added one and possibly two more names to his list of potential Kentucky Derby hopefuls here at Gulfstream Park this winter after Tapwrit and Master Plan finished one-two in Saturday’s $75,000 Pulpit Stakes, a race that was switched from turf to a sloppy main track earlier in the day.

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