By now everyone knows BLAME to be a freakishly precocious broodmare sire. But he’s value wearing other hats, too. Okay, so he had a tepid year by his standards, with five stakes winners but none at graded level. But that takes him up to 50 overall, at a solid 8 percent of named foals, with 21 graded stakes winners including half a dozen at the elite level. And for a sire at this stage of his career, he’s maintaining consistent demand at the sales, his latest yearlings again achieving a yield over $90,000 (47 sold of 54).
But yes, it’s as a distaff influence that he’s looking phenomenal. Obviously he doesn’t yet have the footprint of older sires (his daughters sent out 180 starters in 2024, against 874 for the late Giant’s Causeway) and duly figured no higher than 34th in the broodmare sire table. But 17 stakes winners arrived at an incredible 9.5 percent of starters, eight at graded level–at least double the ratio of every sire above him.
It all stands to reason, like his elite caliber as a runner. The underrated Arch was himself from a noble family, but BLAME entwines it with one rooted in the great Special as third dam. For anyone who wouldn’t mind retaining a filly, especially, BLAME is a no-brainer.
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