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. 2011: four-year-old season 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. 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. Most notably, she finished second in the Grade II Ballston Spa Stakes at Saratoga to the German mare Daveron. 2012: five-year-old season 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. 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. Her other stakes win that year was a victory in Gulfstream Park's Honey Fox Stakes. Retirement A month after her victory in the First Lady Stakes, Tapitsfly went through the sales ring at the Fasig-Tipton November sale. While Frank Jones Jr. does breed horses, he did not want to keep Tapitsfly for her broodmare career. Before the sale, Jones told the Daily Racing Form "I’m not set up to be having breeding stock worth that much money. I’m not a big-time breeder, and she’s a big-time horse. I’m 99 percent sure I’m going to sell her." At the Fasig-Tipton sale, she sold for $1,850,000 to Katsumi Yoshida of Shadai Stallion Station and was sent to Japan. Her first foal was Gran Alegria who won the 2019 Oka Sho and has become the dominant force in Sprinter and Mile races in Japan between 2019 and 2021. Pedigree Tapitsfly is inbred 4 × 4 to Nijinsky, which means that this stallion appears twice in the fourth generation of her pedigree. Tapitsfly is also inbred 4 × 5 × 5 to Mr. Prospector (as