“A filly with a future” is what the Tampa Bay race caller said when Tap Dance Fever stormed home to a 7 length wire to wire win at Tampa Bay yesterday. That is the 6th winner from the 20 horses I picked at Ocala. She only cost $17,000.
TDF is from a mare that ran fast races at SA without winning. The mare did not run until November of her 3 year old season. Since Tapiture is not precocious either, nobody wanted this horse at the sale. Now she a winner at mile as 2 year old. Maybe the competition is lacking at Tampa, but the time was pretty fast. Equibase only gave her an 80, but I do not really trust them, let’s see what the Beyer comes back.
I called this horse “Contest”, because my guys at Dare to Dream bought a Tapiture filly with a more precocious dam. Blonde on Tap got to the races in August, but today she is in a 6 furlong $30,000 maiden claimer at the Fairgrounds.
Right now it looks like I am winning the contest.
Tap Dance Fever is out of a Green Dancer mare, and the 2nd dam was by Nijinsky. Everyone hates plodders until they win.
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