There was only one link that was active in your post...the pedigree page for Empire Maker...can you repost the other that you had in mind?

Re: the EM page....

There are very few stamina influences in either family...particularly in the sire line...most horses there are from the brilliant category...milers and a little better. The dam's side is better. with Swaps and Busanda, but that's really it. Many more brilliant types.

I really didn't pay much attention to this before the Derby and can only imagine, from your comments, that FC has a stronger page.

The truth is that the sire line is not as relevant as to its influence on stamina, except as far as muscular-skeletal issues are concerned. The dam provides energy, respiratory, and cardiac influence, which is probably much more important.

(by the way, this is not based on my personal opinion or intelligence...the Australians broke the horse genome about five or six years ago...this insight is the result of their work)

Where EM is concerned, he is a nice looking horse and his balance will carry him a long way, but I think that he might have a lot more trouble going on in the Belmont, if he even gets there, based on this pedigree.

Many thanks for the post.