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Pedigree fun facts: Helium
Although Tampa Bay Derby (G2) upsetter
Helium was not an early nominee to the Triple Crown, the Kentucky-bred has a pedigree filled with classic influences.
Helium is a grandson of
Distorted Humor, who has been prominent on the 2021 Kentucky Derby (G1) trail as the broodmare sire of Life Is Good (Pedigree Fun Facts) and Risk Taking (Pedigree Fun Facts). Unlike those contenders who are out of daughters of Distorted Humor, Helium descends from his male line, via Distorted Humor’s son
Ironicus.
An accomplished turf performer, Ironicus captured the 2015 Dixie (now renamed the Dinner Party) (G2) at Pimlico and Bernard Baruch (G2), the latter in a course-record 1:38.54 for 1 1/16 miles on Saratoga’s Mellon turf course. In 2016, Ironicus added the Fort Marcy (G3), placed second to champion Flintshire in the Manhattan (G1), and just missed to Miss Temple City in the Shadwell Turf Mile (G1). He concluded his career with a fourth to Tourist and Tepin i