Blame saved the historic integrity of the sport

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by Dahoss

Why would he? He's better on dirt, so why would they ship across the country and over the rockies to run on a surface he isn't as good on?

He ran a 101 at keeneland and is undefeated on that surface. His only loss on synthetic came in his maiden in a sprint with a bug boy up. He trains over the keeneland surface regularly. How can we say definitively that he is better on dirt? Or should we say "was" better on dirt?

But the fact is that the BC was run in So Cal two years while he was in training and its not like they don't give out money west of the rockies. Why didn't Blame ship out west?

I am not saying he should have but as much heat as Zenyatta's connections have taken for not coming east, couldn't that be put on some that didn't come west? If the competition is so easy out west and the purses are relatively the same, why not get the money and the easy black type?