Don't Blame Me

Besides Zenyatta's amazing victory, I thought Blame's win in the Stephen Foster at Churchill and Rail Trip's win at Hollywood were the performances of the weekend. Rail Trip was pretty much a lock, but Blame was ultra-impressive. I have been on Blame's bandwagon for a while now. In his last race, he was even money or so, but this time, astonishingly, he was 7-2!

All this guy does is win, and he loves Churchill. Most impressive was the fact that Battle Plan got away with fairly easy fractions for almost the entire race, and Blame still nailed him at the wire. If you watch the replay, Churchill announcer Mark Johnson says "Blame, coming under a ride" at the top of the stretch, meaning Blame was asked for his best pretty early, and usually that spells defeat.

But Blame kept coming. And by the time he was approaching the wire, jockey Garrett Gomez had put away the whip, and Blame was under a hand ride. The horse was doing it himself.

Blame is the real deal.