Gainesway reveals 2022 fees as Tapit tops roster at $185,000

Gainesway's stallion roster for 2022 will be led by the world-renowned Tapit, whose fee will remain at $185,000.

The three-time champion sire is North America's leading sire of Grade 1 winners (27), Grade 1 performers (58), Graded winners (92), Graded horses (177) and stakes performers (284).

Tapit continued to add to his resume throughout this past year, becoming the first stallion to sire four Belmont Stakes winners when Essential Quality took the third leg of the Triple Crown this year. Shortly thereafter, Tapit took over as the all-time leading American sire by progeny earnings.

Tapit's top sons at stud include Constitution, Frosted and Tapwrit. As a broodmare sire, his daughters added another three Grade 1 winners in 2021, contributing to a list that already numbers 25 Graded winners.

McKinzie will stand for $30,000 in his second season at stud, after covering 214 mares in his first year as a stallion. The four-time Grade 1-winning son of Street Sense posted 11 triple-digit Beyer Speed Figures in a career that saw him win top-level races at two, three and four. Among those Grade 1 victories was an impressive success in the 2019 Whitney Stakes.

Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner Spun To Run joins McKinzie as Gainesway stallions expecting their first foals in 2022. Hailing from the influential Danzig sire line, Spun To Run showed remarkable speed during his three-year-old campaign, collecting three consecutive triple-digit Beyers. He will stand for $10,000 in 2022.

A $1.2 million yearling himself, Belmont Stakes winner Tapwrit has proven to be popular in the auction ring with nearly 20 per cent of his first crop of yearlings bringing over ten times his 2021 stud fee.

Having had the most six-figure yearlings of any freshman sire at the July Sale, Fasig-Tipton's Kentucky sale of selected yearlings, Tapwrit's first crop is set to hit the track in 2022. A two-year-old stakes winner out of the juvenile Grade 1 winner Appealing Zophie, Tapwrit will stand for $10,000.

Karakontie, standing for $10,000 in 2022, has continued to prove that he is one of the top third-crop sires by percentage of stakes winners and Graded winners. The three-time Grade 1 winner's runners this year include dual-surface and multiple Graded winner Princess Grace and Del Mar Derby winner None Above The Law, who has won four stakes races on three different surfaces this year.

Anchor Down will stand for $5,000 in 2022. From limited books, the son of Tapit boasts 14 per cent stakes horses in his first two crops of racing age. His top performers this year include the Grade 2-placed Captured Prize and stakes performers Lionessofbrittany, Swot Analysis and Tesoro.

The Gainesway roster gains multiple Grade 1 winner Raging Bull in 2022, with the talented son of leading international sire Dark Angel standing for $10,000.

A $1.6m earner, Raging Bull proved a consistently talented racehorse who competed at the top of his division over four seasons. He has made 18 consecutive Graded starts, winning or placing in nine Grade 1 events, including victories in the Hollywood Derby, Shoemaker Mile Stakes and this year's Maker's Mark Mile Stakes. Raging Bull will be making his final start in the Breeders' Cup Mile next month at Del Mar.

Gainesway stud fees

Stallion	2022 Fee	2021 Fee
Afleet Alex	Private	$6,500
Anchor Down	$5,000	$5,000
Karakontie	$10,000	$10,000
McKinzie	$30,000	$30,000
Raging Bull	$10,000	NEW FOR 2022
Spun to Run	$10,000	$12,500
Tapit	$185,000	$185,000