2014 Matings

[mariasmon]

Is Tapit known for having a poor temperament?

I don't think he is mean or anything, but his offspring can be a bit...squirrelly.

[serenassong]

Egg Drop was bred to Tapit...

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... d-to-tapit

http://www.truenicks.com/free-reports/h ... Egg%20Drop

[swale1984]

Is Tapit known for having a poor temperament?

I think it's the Pulpit in them. Corinthian was a bit...umm...interesting on the track. I remember saying I'd never take a high-strung mare to Corinthian. You're just asking for trouble, IMO.

I know I've read that that was largely the reason for Mahubah being bred to Fair Play...they were hoping to balance out the high strung Fair Play with a more balanced disposition. Look at his progeny, and a lot of them are from Rock Sand mares.

[tachyon]

Flotilla(FR) --> Galileo

[TBird]

Egg Drop was bred to Tapit...

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... d-to-tapit

How could they have possibly gotten a race mare, 2 weeks off the track, to have a normal breedable cycle to be bred? Maidens are hard enough to get cycles going no less a mare with a mixture of drugs from being on the track. I will be curious to hear if she actually gets in foal so soon.

It's often easier to get a mare in foal first cycle off the track than it is a month or two later when she's had to deal with changes in her care and routine.

FWIW, reproductive vetwork is very precise. If Egg Drop didn't have a breedable follicle she wouldn't have been covered, especially not by a busy stallion like Tapit.

As for your assertion about Egg Drop's "mixture of drugs from being on the track" I will have to defer to your inside knowledge on that.

[amfuller]

Bred this past weekend at Darley.
Unfold the Rose (USA) --> Bernardini (dam of G1W Stephanie’s Kitten)

Private Feeling (USA) --> Street Cry (dam of G1W Lookin’ At Lucky)

[amfuller]

Take Charge Lady ---> War Front

Don't know if this has been posted yet or not. sorry if it's a duplicate.

[bare it all]

Oh please let them do something cute if the War Front x Take Charge Lady is a filly. Like Bren Gun Gal or Rosie the Riveter or Molly Pitcher (I know that ones taken, haha). But I'd love to see something like that.

[mariasmon]

Oh please let them do something cute if the War Front x Take Charge Lady is a filly. Like Bren Gun Gal or Rosie the Riveter or Molly Pitcher (I know that ones taken, haha). But I'd love to see something like that.

She should have already had a War Front something this year, but no foal reports from Ye Olde Coolmore Ashford so far.

[Northport]

Oh please let them do something cute if the War Front x Take Charge Lady is a filly. Like Bren Gun Gal or Rosie the Riveter or Molly Pitcher (I know that ones taken, haha). But I'd love to see something like that.

I wonder if Cavalry Charge is taken in the US. Or even in Europe, since War Fronts do well over there... I didn't know that Coolmore owned Take Charge Lady

[Acadiana]

Oh please let them do something cute if the War Front x Take Charge Lady is a filly. Like Bren Gun Gal or Rosie the Riveter or Molly Pitcher (I know that ones taken, haha). But I'd love to see something like that.

She should have already had a War Front something this year, but no foal reports from Ye Olde Coolmore Ashford so far.

According to the "Through the Lens" blog on Bloodhorse:

One of her handlers noted that the 15-year-old mare “looks terrific” and “she doesn’t carry much weight” when in foal. Dappled out and looking great, Take Charge Lady has a War Front yearling filly that was born on April 7, 2013. She did not produce a foal in 2014 and has been bred to War Front this season.

Read more on BloodHorse.com: http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/throught ... z2zlkSqJ5u

[Lakeway]

According to the Breeders Cup Nomination site she was bred to War Front last year, so she must not have caught or slipped...

[mariasmon]

Bummer that she didn't have a foal this year.

[mariasmon]

Easter Bunnette (dam of Havre de Grace) --> Bernardini

[amfuller]

Fun House(dam of Untapable) --> Tapit

[Izvestia]

Glen Hill Farm reports that Indy Blaze (dam of their SW Enterprising) is going to Declaration of War.

[mariasmon]

Ashado --> Tapit

[Twingo]

Intensify (dam of Intense Holiday) --> Shanghai Bobby

[second_glance]

Glen Hill Farm says Act Quickly (1/2 to Marketing Mix) and Bridal Memories (1/2 to Winter Memories) will be going to Artie Schiller soon. AQ has a Super Saver colt on the ground and BM has a KJ filly.

[second_glance]

Ginger Sea (SAF), who just foaled a Hat Trick colt for Team Valor, will go to Animal Kingdom. TV says 92.6% of the mares AK covered in AUS are in foal.