Stakes winner Tap Into This to enter stud at Valor Farm in 2027

Valor Farm is making a Texas statement with Tap Into This, a stakes-winning son of Tapit who brings a clean race record, a blue-blooded female family and a fee that should widen his appeal to regional breeders.

Tap Into This never missed the board in 10 career starts, finishing with 4 wins, 3 seconds and 3 thirds for $378,145 in earnings. His final victory came in the inaugural The Coach Overnight Stakes at Oaklawn Park on Feb. 6, 2026, and that was the race that closed the books on a campaign that had him pointed toward a stakes at Monmouth Park before a suspensory injury after a morning work ended his racing career.

The pedigree is the kind that gets attention beyond the shed row. Tap Into This is out of Superioritycomplex, a Hard Spun mare bred by Mt. Brilliant Farm and Orrin Ingram, and Superioritycomplex also produced graded stakes winner Extra Anejo. The family traces to Justlookdontouch, a half-sister to Islington, the 2003 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf winner and Eclipse champion grass mare. Doug Scharbauer paid $525,000 for the colt at the 2023 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, and he plans to support the new stallion with mares he is keeping in Kentucky.

That detail matters because this move is about more than one horse. Valor Farm, in Pilot Point, has been breeding, raising and foaling in North Texas horse country since 1993, and Tap Into This joins a roster that already includes Competitive Edge, Gold Double and Shoplifted. Competitive Edge has been a top-three Texas sire from 2019 through 2025 and has more than $19 million in progeny earnings, so Valor already has a proven commercial piece on the board. Tap Into This is a different kind of play, a lower-priced stallion expected to stand for around $3,000 to $3,500, which makes him the sort of horse Texas breeders can use without stretching for a headline fee.

That is where the regional ambition comes in. If Texas is serious about keeping more mares, foals and investment in-state, Tap Into This has to do more than show up on a farm roster. He will need local breeders to buy in, his first foals to turn into saleable yearlings, and his offspring to win races that give the program credibility beyond Pilot Point. If that happens, this becomes a real upgrade for the Texas stallion base, not just another announcement.