Tapit Trice
Tapit Trice (foaled February 17, 2020) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Grade I Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland and Grade III Tampa Bay Derby at Tampa Bay Downs in 2023 as a three-year-old.

Background
Tapit Trice is a gray or roan colt that was bred in Kentucky by Gainesway Thoroughbreds. He was sired by Tapit, the leading sire in the US in 2014, 2015 and 2016.  Tapit stands at Gainesway Farm for $185,000 in 2023. Tapit Trice was sold for $1,300,000 at the 2021 Keeneland September Yearling Sale to Amanda Pope's Whisper Hill Farm from the consignment of breeder Antony Beck's Gainesway Farm, which subsequently bought back in as a partner.  
 
Tapit Trice is out of the Grade III-placed (2017 Groupie Doll Stakes) multiple stakes winner Danzatrice, a daughter of 2009 Belmont Stakes runner-up Dunkirk. Danzatrice is a half sister to 2018 US champion two-year-old filly Jaywalk, a two-time grade 1 winner.

Tapit Trice is trained by US Hall of Fame trainer Todd A. Pletcher.

Racing career

2022: two-year-old season
Tapit Trice ran two times in late 2022 in Maiden events at Aqueduct Racetrack winning on his second start.

2023: three-year-old season

Tapit Trice has run four times in 2023 winning three of his races. Two of his victories were in major qualification events on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, the Grade III Tampa Bay Derby  and then a grinding win in the Grade I Blue Grass Stakes by a neck thus easily qualifying for the 2023 Kentucky Derby. He finished 7th in the Kentucky Derby.

Statistics

Notes:

An (*) asterisk after the odds means Tapit Trice was the post-time favorite.

Pedigree

 Tapit Trice is inbred 3s × 4d to A.P. Indy, and 3s × 4d to Unbridled meaning both A.P. Indy and Unbridled appears in the third generation on the sire's side and in the fourth generation on dam's side of the pedigree.

References

2020 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
Thoroughbred family 19-b
American Grade 1 Stakes winners