It was three millionaires for TAPIT during Book 1 of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale on Monday and Tuesday as just one of many ways the stallion’s influence was felt during the two-session book.
TAPIT’s filly out of Sharing was the fourth most expensive of the book when Whisper Hill Farm went to $1.5 million to secure the filly from Gainesway. This page was given an update just days before the sale when her granddam’s half-sister Sparkle Blue finished second in the Listed One Dreamer Stakes – her 13th career stakes placing. Closer up on the page, Sharing is the dam of one winner from one to race with her first foal winning on debut.
Sharing is a Grade 1 winner out of a Grade 1 winner as a daughter of Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) winner Shared Account. That mare also produced stakes winner Riley’s Choice. There are six stakes winners and three other stakes performers named on the page.
“From my standpoint, it was the physical, and I really liked her as an athlete,” said Todd Quast, advisor to Whisper Hill Farm, “Mandy loved her pedigree. When you get those both together, you’re going to pay a lot of money. We’re very excited about the family. Super-nice filly.”
A full brother to TAPIT’s Grade 1 winning son and studmate TAPIT TRICE went home with Spendthrift Farm after they went to $1.25 million to acquire the colt.
The page earned a few updates after the catalog was released with the colt’s sister Danzit breaking her maiden at Saratoga. Two juveniles out of Danzatrice’s half-sisters also registered stakes placings this summer. The dam of two winners from three to race, Danzatrice was a three-time stakes winner herself and is a half-sister to champion Jaywalk. This family also includes Grade 2 winners Mission Impazible and Forest Camp among many others on the page.
Rounding out TAPIT’s Book 1 millionaires was a $1 million granddaughter of Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Winning Colors purchased by Kate Sheehan on behalf of Tranquility Lake Farm.
This Gainesway-offered filly is a half-sister to five winners from six to race out of Silver Colors, led by Grade 1 winner Eskimo Kisses, stakes winner Princess Aliyah, and Grade 1 placed Silver Ride. Silver Colors herself is a half-sister to the stakes placed Golden Colors and Ocean Colors and one of five stakes producers or dams of stakes producers out of the legendary Winning Colors.
Outside of his own offerings as a sire, TAPIT is also the broodmare sire of the $3.3 million Book 1 topper purchased by M.V. Magnier, White Birch Farm, and Winchell Thoroughbreds. That colt is the second out of TAPIT’s Grade 2 winner Thoughtfully, who is a full sister to stakes winner Signator.
TAPIT was also the broodmare sire of a Gainesway-offered half-brother to Grade 2 winner Window Shopping out of Grade 3 winner Delightful Joy, who sold to Douglas Scharbauer for $1.3 million, and a Warrendale-offered $1 million colt sold to Repole Stable and St. Elias Stables.
Two of TAPIT’s sons also saw eight yearlings between them sell for seven figures as well, making sure TAPIT had a strong hand in the success of the first book to kick off a record-breaking Keeneland September Yearling Sale.