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As the half-sister to a multiple stakes-winning earner of over a quarter-million dollars by a son of Tapit, the recently-acquired broodmare prospect Unrequited Love is a perfect candidate to visit a similarly-bred stallion for her first mating in 2023. And as we’ve expressed numerous times in this space, it’s always better — where possible — to give a young mare a shot with a proven sire early in her breeding career to get the most informative line possible on her ability in the shed. As such, Unrequited Love will join her dam, Wild For Love, in being mated with the prolific sire of winners and stakes winners Tapiture at Darby Dan in 2023.
Tapiture has consistently ranked near the top of his sire-class across all metrics, slotting in among stallions with significantly higher stud fees than what he has ever charged (like Constitution, American Pharoah, Liam’s Map, Honor Code, etc) and with much less help from his mates (his lifetime CI is just 1.17). He has 18 career stakes winners, including 2023 G3 winner Repo Rocks, plus 29 more black-type runners. He also finished 3rd by the number of winners he sired in 2022 behind only Into Mischief and Munnings, despite having 200 fewer runners than the former, and 50 fewer than the latter.
Tapiture has already had success with mares from the Gone West sire-line like Unrequited Love (who is the second leading earner by the Speightstown son Despite the Odds), including stakes winners Vertical Threat and Brewhouse and two additional black-type horses among 17 winners from just 25 runners bred this way (TrueNicks calls it an “A”). Going back a generation, Tapiture has sired just four foals out of Not For Love mares like Unrequited Love’s dam Wild For Love, all four of which are winners, two of which are stakes winners (including the aforementioned G3 winner Repo Rocks, who earned a year-best Beyer of 111 in taking the G3 Toboggan at Aqueduct recently) with a third black-type runner, as well. And then Despite the Odds is out of a daughter of Cozzene, who rates an “A++” on TrueNicks with Tapiture based on a trio of stakes winners from 18 runners by Tapit-line stallions out of Cozzene mares.
So there is an awful lot to like about this matchup, including also the physicals of the two horses involved: both Tapiture and Unrequited Love are medium-sized, well-made horses with loads of quality (she was actually rated third in her class at the MHBA Yearling Show by renowned trainer Michael Stidham a few years back), and we cannot wait for their foal to reach the races!
Local Motive wins the 2021 James F. Lewis Stakes at Laurel