It was a first stakes victory on the second day of the year for TAPIT’s Tap Into This when the 4-year-old won The Coach Overnight S. at Oaklawn Park on Friday.
The winner of three of his last four starts, the Douglas Scharbauer runner went off as the favorite in the 1 1/16-mile dirt race while making his stakes debut. Breaking from one of the middle gates, the TAPIT son settled as the back marker nearly 10 lengths off the field.
It wasn’t until the turn that he started moving his way through the field but still had plenty to make up coming into the stretch.
Tap Into This switched all the way to the outside and closed strongly once straightened out. It took most of the race for the colt to get to the front, but his last surge was perfectly timed with Tap Into This winning by half a length.
🏇🏽 @JRosarioJockey stays collected aboard TAP INTO THIS ($4.20) after a slow break and they charge down the @OaklawnRacing stretch to win the $135,000 The Coach Overnight Stakes for trainer Steve Asmussen. Douglas Scharbauer owns this 4YO colt by @Gainesway stallion Tapit. pic.twitter.com/e8W4cxWByD
— FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) January 2, 2026
Trained by Steve Asmussen, Tap Into This has won four of 10 starts with six other top three finishes. A $525,000 yearling purchase, he was offered by co-breeder Mt. Brilliant Farm, who bred him with Orrin Ingram.
Tap Into This is the second stakes winner from as many foals for Hard Spun mare Superioritycomplex, whose first foal is the Grade 3 winner Extra Anejo. Superioritycomplex is a half-sister to Grade 3 winner Francesco Clemente and stakes winner and Grade 2-placed Abingdon. They are out of a three-quarter sister to champion Islington and six other stakes performers with Group 1 winner Fiorente also on the page.
TAPIT leads all active North American sires by number of graded stakes winners, graded stakes performers, Grade 1 winners, and Grade 1 performers with his 170 stakes winners second best in the group.