Tapitsfly

Tapitsfly's first race was on May 21, 2009, in a maiden special weight on dirt at Churchill Downs, where she finished fifth after being shuffled back early.[6] She made two more attempts to break her maiden at Churchill Downs before winning a Saratoga Race Course maiden special weight on August 3, 2009.[1] The race had been scheduled for the turf but was moved to the dirt track. Going off as the post-time favorite, Tapitsfly won by 2 3/4 lengths under jockey Robby Albarado.[7]

Tapitsfly's next race was the P. G. Johnson Stakes, also at Saratoga. The race was a 1 1/16 mile race on the turf for two-year-old fillies. Entering the stretch, she was challenged by the post-time favorite, Smart Seattle, but dug in and went on to win by 1 1/4 lengths.[8]

Tapitsfly prepared for a start in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf by entering the Miss Grillo Stakes at Belmont Park. The race was scheduled to be on the turf course but had to be taken off the turf and run on the dirt course due to heavy rain. Because of the move, six fillies scratched out of the Miss Grillo, leaving Tapitsfly with only two rivals. She ended up finishing second to the maiden Dad's Crazy, who finished 3 1/4 lengths ahead.[9]

Tapitsfly's final race of 2009 was the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, held at Santa Anita Park. Going off at odds of 9–1, she pressed the pace set by Rose Catherine from second for most of the race. Tapitsfly got her head in front at the eighth pole and hung on to win the race in a final time of 1:34.25.[4]

Tapitsfly missed the entirety of her three-year-old season. She had an ankle chip removed early in 2010, and trainer Dale Romans said that she had suffered "additional setbacks" that prevented her from racing at three.[10]

Tapitsfly's only win as a four-year-old came in an allowance optional claiming race at Gulfstream Park on April 2, 2011. Other than that win, she made eight other starts in 2011, hitting the board in four of them.[1] Most notably, she finished second in the Grade II Ballston Spa Stakes at Saratoga to the German mare Daveron.[11]

Tapitsfly returned to her Grade I-winning form at five. On June 9, 2012, she took the Grade I Just A Game Stakes on the Belmont Stakes undercard from the favorite, Winter Memories, wiring the field and coming very close to equaling the course record.[12] She also won the Grade I First Lady Stakes at Keeneland on October 6, 2012. Going off as the second choice, she went out six wide going into the stretch and overtook her rivals to win by half a length.[13] Her other stakes win that year was a victory in Gulfstream Park's Honey Fox Stakes.