Kentucky Derby Gets a Silver Sheen.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Buried on the grounds of Gainesway Farm’s perfectly manicured 1,500 acres are several champion racehorses, including the prolific gray sire Mahmoud, a grandfather of the first gray horse to win the Kentucky Derby.
Not far from the grave site, Tapit, a gray sire whose libido and fertility are rivaling those of the greats, resides in a plush corner stall next to his son Tapizar and across the way from American Pharoah’s grandfather Empire Maker. Tapit is brilliant white now, almost ghostlike, and blends in among the eight white stucco stallion barns.
At 15, he has passed along enough of his “hot blood,” as the stallion manager Carl Buckler likes to call it, to establish himself as a two-time champion sire and to command a $300,000 stud fee, the highest in North America. So far, his progeny have won 45 graded stakes races, including 17 in Grade I, and earned more than $91 million.
On Saturday, three of his sons — Mohaymen, Creator and Lani, all gray — plus a fourth gray colt, Destin, a son of Giant’s Causeway, will compete in the Kentucky Derby, casting a rare silver sheen on the most famous horse race in America. (Two daughters, Royal Obsession and Taxable, raced in the Kentucky Oaks on Friday.)'>>>
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....a good photo of Super Stallion, Tapit. He's a good looking horse and has a helluva a pedigree.
http://www.pedigreequery.com/tapit
thank you. Beautiful.
