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Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners Comes Full-Circle With Purchase Of Tapwrit Filly At Fasig-Tipton July Sponsored by:
Tapwrit at Gainesway 1.10.19.
When a horse sells for $1.2 million as a yearling, the daydreams that follow often center around hoisting trophies in high-profile races and standing at a high-profile stallion operation for years to come. They don t usually include unheralded $100,000 yearling purchases somewhere down the road, but one in particular marked the next chapter for an ownership group and its star horse.
On Tuesday, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners secured a filly from the first crop of its Belmont Stakes-winning stallion Tapwrit at the Fasig-Tipton July Yearling Sale for $100,000, nearly six years after landing Tapwrit himself for $1.2 million at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. The July purchase marked the first Tapwrit foal bought by Eclipse at public auction.
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Chub Wagon is undefeated in six career starts
Even in a career that counts more than 2,000 winners and a dozen graded-stakes, trainer Guadalupe Preciado can count the truly special ones he s had on one hand.
Two fingers, even.
The first belongs to millionaire Favorite Tale, who captured the 2014 Gallant Bob (G3) and 2015 Smile Sprint (G2), and later that year ran third in the A.G. Vanderbilt Handicap (G1) and Breeders Cup Sprint (G1). Favorite Tale was no stranger to Maryland, winning the Dave s Friend at Laurel Park in 2018 in his penultimate career start.
Preciado points a second finger to his current stable star, Daniel Lopez and George Chestnut s 4-year-old homebred filly Chub Wagon, undefeated through six career starts. The bay daughter of Hey Chub will be aiming for her third consecutive stakes triumph in Sunday s $100,000 Shine Again at historic Pimlico Race Course.