Tap the Gavel Race Recap

Tap the Gavel finished sixth today in his second career start at Tampa Bay Downs. We were hoping that he would build off his second-place finish in his debut in November, but today the colt was never quite comfortable with horses to his outside, according to jockey Samy Camacho, who gives our East Coast Racing Manager, Harry Rice, a full report in the attached video.

Samy said that Tap the Gavel, who broke from the rail and was not able to get in the clear in the field of nine runners going into the first turn, was a bit intimidated by the presence of horses to his outside. When he received some open space to his outside around the half-mile pole, he did some running, but when he was in tight at the three-furlong pole and Samy had to check a little bit, he didn’t kick on and his rider said at that point, “I just took care of him.”

As this was just his second race, the son of Tapit is still learning and we expect the experience will serve him well going forward. We will check in with trainer Bill Mott in the coming days and report back with how our 3-year-old exited the race.