China Horse Club Buys Tapit Colt for $750,000

A son of leading sire Tapit   who is a half brother to grade II winner Corfu lit up the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling bid board when bought by China Horse Club for $750,000.

Consigned by Top Line Sales, the colt who had been purchased as a weanling for $390,000 from the Keeneland November sale is out of the Forest Wildcat mare Fashion Cat, a half sister to grade I winner Peace Rules.

Michael Wallace, who signed the ticket, described the colt as "beautiful" and said he was one of the first horses he saw upon arrival at the sales grounds.

"We could sort of sit back and evaluate him closely from afar and he never turned a hair all week. He ticked all the boxes, as they say," said Wallace, adding that he did not know who would train the colt.

Wallace said he was not surprised he would have to go to that point to get the colt.

"Colts like that deserve to make that sort of money," he said. "It's very hard to breed a product like that and get everything so right. If you can achieve those goals you deserve to be well-paid."

Teresa Genaro contributed to this story.