Tapit's already a success. Whatever happens from here in its all gravy. He's almost earned back his 625K purchase and I'm sure he can be syndicated to result in a profit.

If he were a bay or brown colt I probably wouldn't have been as skeptical about his distance ability, but I'm not high on Pulpit. That said I almost let his fabricating stable talk me into the fact he likes to look at crowds when he's racing...lol Hell, I was about to give him a pass but for the imput here. But the reason I don't care for Pulpit is that I don't think very much of Preach and I think the stout A.p. Indy blood has to overcome a whole lot there to even get a miler type. You're right about Pulpit getting lots of good mares. Few stallions have gotten his book.

Pulpits best distance type horse has been Essence of Dubai. He won the Super Derby, but I think that was at 9 marks. He also won a Group II at 10 marks in Dubai. I don't know what kind of horses he faced there. But Essence is out of Epitome a Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies winner and her Sire was Summing who won the Belmont and he was 2nd in the Super Derby when I know it was 10 marks.

Sky Mesa really wasn't a great horse. He wasn't even a 9 furlong horse.

Last thing about Pulpit, I never believed he was really hurt after the Kentucky Derby. I think he may have had a minor setback, but I'm pretty sure Claiborne knew the writing was on the wall and they thought he'd make a good stallion mated to the right stamina mares. Pulpit couldn't hang on to these fractions:

:23 2/5, :47 2/5, 1:12 1/5, 1:37, 2:02 2/5

The real interesting horse this year to me is Imperialism. I'd love to know what Taub paid for him and whether T-Graph considered him an acquisition at any point. He's got to deal with a closers fate but I'm pretty sure now he's a darn good horse. Caveat: he was bearing in a bit. Not like Tapit, but he was bearing in. If he were my horse I'd never run him in California again, with the possible exception of Del Mar. He'd run at Belmont and Saratoga.



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