Tapit’s son Flashback, who began his stud career in 2015 at Lexington’s Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms, complete with guarantees to breeders selling weanlings and yearlings from owner Gary and Mary West, and a full first book, has been moved for the 2019 season to Diamond B Farm in Pennsylvania, and will stand there for $3500, compared to his beginning fee of $7500 in Kentucky. The gray stallion, out of the Mr. Greeley mare Rhumb Line, making him a full brother to multiple G1 winner Zazu, won the Robert B. Lewis S.-G2, and finished second to Goldencents in the Santa Anita Derby-G1, along with other stake placings. He completed his racing career with just over $400,000 in earnings.

Flashback’s first crop to race last year, however, failed to set the world on fire. He was number 12 on the leading freshman sires list, with only 33 runners and 11 winners from that first crop (three repeat winners), and no graded stakes horses, his biggest winner being non-graded winner Boujie Girl. His first crop earned only $554,389.

The Pennsylvania-bred program is a rich one, and Flashback may flourish there, with his fashionable pedigree and three good-sized Kentucky crops supporting him. He himself wasn’t precocious at two, so it would be no surprise if his first three-year-olds make him a popular, well-supported stud in Pennsylvania.

-- Roberta Smoodin