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00:00A regally bred son of Tappet, Tacitus has been on breeders' radars since his first
00:07graded stakes win.
00:09This year, the $3.7 million earner joins the stallion roster at Taylor Maid Farm.
00:14We spoke with Duncan Taylor about Tacitus and the many breeders who have stopped in
00:18to visit since he arrived this fall.
00:22Tacitus is such a royally bred horse, and he was a good race horse.
00:29He won, you know, the Wood Memorial, the Tampa Bay Derby, and the Suburban, and two of those
00:35used to be grade ones.
00:37Just got a beautiful pedigree.
00:39We probably could have stood him for more money because he's been so popular, but we
00:44wanted to make sure we got a good book to him, get him off to a good start.
00:48He's probably booked 160-some mares now.
00:51We're picking through the mares and trying to get the better mares we can.
00:56They've been very popular, and we've been really satisfied with the reception from
01:01the breeders.
01:02I think just pure ability made him do as good as he did.
01:06Broke his maiden as a two-year-old in the second start, and he won the Wood Memorial
01:11and won the Tampa Bay Derby, and he was second in the Belmont, second in the Traverse, third
01:18in the Kentucky Derby, so he was right there through the major three-year-old races, but
01:24he was a grade one-caliber horse, and a couple of the races that he did win used to be grade
01:29ones, and he just didn't win them at the right time.
01:32He was just a solid race horse.
01:34I just think pure ... He just had all kinds of ability.
01:37134th Suburban, Tacitus, by eight lengths, and it was ...
01:43Tacitus' pedigree, he is linebred to unbridled, and that comes through unbridled song, and
01:51then Tabit's mother is by unbridled, then he's also linebred to Seattle Slew.
01:57The way he's bred with the unbridled and Seattle Slew, linebreeding to both of those, and they're
02:01both through a male and a female, so it's a very well-balanced pedigree, and then just
02:06the females in his family are unbelievable.
02:09I mean, when you look at it, you look Weekend Surprise, Narrate, Gainifacile, Crimson Saint,
02:17Best in Show.
02:18There's a lot of things you can linebreed to, and try to come up with some clever matings.
02:24Tacitus' confirmation, he's got the color, of course, of Tabit, but he's bigger, and
02:30he looks more like ... You can see the unbridled coming through.
02:33I think he's got a great big deep shoulder, and a good neck on him, and he's got enough
02:39hip.
02:40He tends to look more like the unbridled line, really, than he does Tabit himself.
02:46I think that we're really excited, and think he could be the great stallion.
02:49We're very fortunate to have a royally bred horse like him at TaylorMade.