II. BLAME GAME PEDIGREE
THE TOP SIDE OF HIS PEDIGREE
A) SIRE: BLAME
Blame Game’s sire is Blame who demonstrated time and time again that he could get a distance of ground including when he won the 2010 Breeders’ Cup over the great Zenyatta.
B) GRANDSIRE: ARCH
Blame Game’s grandsire is the versatile horse and stallion Arch.
- Arch seemed capable of winning at just about any distance as demonstrated by his victory in the 10 furlong Super Derby.
- Arch is an incredibly versatile sire and his progeny have won on turf, dirt and “artificial” surfaces. They’ve also won stakes at 5 furlongs and 6 furlongs and 10 furlongs and 11 furlongs. A look at the list of top horses Arch has sired gives me the impression that a horse sired by Arch could be a multitude of different things. Arch has sired the following:
– 2013 Breeders Cup Marathon winner London Bridge
– South African Champion Sprinter Overachieving
– English Champion Older Horse Les Arcs
– Breeders Cup Classic winner Blame
– Canadian Horse of the Year Arravale - So it’s a wide array of possibilities that Blame Game could potentially be able to excel at based on his having Arch in his pedigree. If I had to guess though I believe the evidence on top points to Blame Game having no trouble running long.
- It is worth mentioning that Arch has already appeared in the pedigree of Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have another so there already is a precedent for Arch’s name to appear in a Kentucky Derby winner’s pedigree.
C.) Further Back In Pedigree
Further back on the top side of Blame Game’s pedigree are names like Nijinski, Mr. Prospector, Buckpasser, Princequillo (IRE) and a plethora of other names I like to see in a classic contenders pedigree.
- So if I had to guess wether the top side of Blame Games pedigree would make him a good horse for the classic distances and a better horse the longer he goes I would say there are some minor question marks but it’s most likely not going to be a problem for him.
