It will be amusing watching everyone spend the next month bashing California Chrome's pedigree while talking about how well bred all of the Tapit's are

Tapit and Lucky Pulpit have the same sire themselves, Pulpit

Tapit dam sire is unbridled, CC is Cozenne

I certainly appreciate that the bottom side of many of these Tapits are much better than CC's bottom side and that the bottom side of a pedigree is critical to the stamina of a horse but the fact of the matter is that no Tapit has gotten 1 1/4 yet despite being bred to the best mares in the world and I just don't mean for the derby, I mean the older ones as well

Tapit is a brilliant sire and I wish I had 50 of them myself and of course I would generally take a Tapit over a Lucky Pulpit to get a distance of ground but as Jimbo said so well on the board earlier today, at some point, what a horse has actually done on the track trumps what the pedigrees say and since CC just blew a hole through the wind running 1 1/8 and since no Tapit has gotten the distance yet, it seems silly to me how people are already dinging the pedigree of CC vs the pedigree of the Tapits

I won't be betting CC on top in the Derby for alot of reasons but pedigree isn't one of them.