Big Saturday for the late sire Arch

The late Arch made his legacy apparent on the final Saturday of the summer’s marquee race meetings, represented by graded stakes winners as a sire, sire-of-sires, and broodmare sire.

Preservationist, a 6-year-old son of Arch, won the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga after earlier this season winning the Grade 2 Suburban Stakes at Belmont Park. In the process, he became a millionaire, and also, according to Equineline statistics, became the 13th Grade 1/Group 1 winner for Arch, who died in 2016 at Claiborne Farm.

On the same card, Mrs. Sippy, by Blame, won the Grade 2 Glens Falls Stakes for fillies and mares on the turf. Eclipse Award champion Blame, who handed the great Zenyatta her only loss in the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Classic, was the best runner by Arch and has taken up residence at Claiborne.

Meanwhile, on the opposite coast, Bast rolled to a dominant victory in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante. The filly is out of the Arch mare Laffina. She also is inbred to the late stallion, as her sire, Uncle Mo, is himself out of an Arch mare.

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