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SHE=S A JULIE BACK TO HER BEST IN PHIPPS HONOR A.P. CRACKS Dismissed at 14-1 in Saturday=s six-horse GI Ogden Phipps S. at THE GENETIC CODE Belmont, Steve Asmussen trainee She=s a Julie (Elusive Quality) rediscovered her best form to narrowly defeat favored Point of Honor (Curlin) and earn a guaranteed spot into the GI Breeders= Cup Distaff later this season. Ollie=s Candy (Candy Ride {Arg}) had to settle for third after chasing hot splits early. She=s a Julie took the GI La Troienne S. on the GI Kentucky Oaks undercard some 13 months ago, but hadn=t returned to the winner=s circle since then and had last been seen finishing a dull sixth in Churchill=s May 23 Shawnee S. in her first start of the season. Ridden for position early by Ricardo Santana, Jr., She=s a Julie grabbed a rail spot just in front and inside of Ollie=s Candy while sitting fourth. She moved into a clear third entering the bend after a :45.98 half mile, and tipped out for running room at the head of the lane with Point of Honor on her right flank. Cont. p8

Honor A.P. | Horsephotos IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Chris McGrath PEACEFUL TAKES IRISH 1000 GUINEAS If someone new to our business asked you to pick a single race Peaceful (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) became her sire’s record-breaking in 2015 that might explain the passion that consumes us, you 85th Group 1 winner in the G1 Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas at probably wouldn't pick the processional exhibitions of a first The Curragh on Saturday. Click or tap here to go straight to Triple Crown winner in 37 years. You'd show them the TDN Europe. GI Whitney S. In a summer when hardly anyone will be able to renew the Saratoga pilgrimage, you may find the jolt of nostalgia too poignant to revisit the video yourself. But gosh, that was a horserace. Liam's Map (Unbridled's Song), flying just that fraction too close to the sun as he tore clear; and Honor Code (A.P. Indy), a perfect obverse of the same daring and brilliance, swooping out of his hiding place somewhere among the forests and lakes to ambush the leader in the very last gasp. It was as though Javier Castellano had flung a javelin through some flap of Mike Smith's silks, billowing in the forward rush, and skewered him to the winning post. Thwack. In a just world, they might have shared a dead-heat. But then this race would also explain to the outsider how our endeavors are predicated on the simple fact that in order for somebody to win, everybody else has to lose. Unless, that is, you happen to be reviewing the race from Lane's End. Here, it has turned out, everyone could be a winner.

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McGrath cont. from p1 Honor Code was already in the farm's camp; and both Liam's Map and third-placed Tonalist (Tapit), who had been detached early with the winner, were also corralled there the following spring to launch their second careers together. "It was an incredible race," recalls Bill Farish of Lane's End. "Liam's Map deserved to win, he was just half a stride short of doing so, and Tonalist acquitted himself very well too. It was an interesting dynamic after the race, put it that way, with the other owners all being good friends." All three horses had rooted their racetrack excellence in aristocratic pedigrees and, while it is still early days, their first sophomores do seem to be working on a pretty exciting replica of that Saratoga melodrama. Once again, it has been Liam's Map who has made the explosive start. Two Grade I winners among his first juveniles last year qualified him for a hike in fee to $35,000 from $20,000; Honor Code, in contrast, lay off the early pace after drawing a black-type blank and was dropped to $30,000 from $40,000. But with his sumptuous pedigree, maturing horses round a second turn were always going to show Honor Code in a better light. Sure enough, he now has a spectacular flagbearer in Honor A.P.--whose GI Santa Anita Derby success last Saturday qualifies him as one of the favorites for a GI Kentucky Derby that should, on its new date, prove tailormade to his later development. Those of us who deplore the puerile impatience of the The guys at Lane's End have seen it all before, and faith in their commercial market today will be delighted for those who kept rookies was never shaken by a quiet start. Liam's Map himself, the faith with Honor Code--whether at the yearling sales last fall, after all, did not have a winner before Saratoga--but that was or with their mares this spring-- Basin, who promptly won the despite his "failure" to produce a GI Hopeful S. on his next start. series of 4 1/2-furlong maiden And then Wicked Whisper did winners at Keeneland last April. much the same, winning on His flamboyant physique had debut at the Spa before been so eerily reproduced in his following up in the GI Frizette S. first crop that only American Honor Code did not have to seek Pharoah had outpunched a far for an example, then, after $200,000 median/$220,303 likewise waiting until July for the average; yet those indices sank first of 14 juvenile winners. to $40,000/$75,494 as his "How often does it happen second crop went to market. that you have two Grade I True, that kind of slippage is winners in New York right out of nearly universal nowadays; and the first crop?" asked Farish of Honor Code's average was Liam's Map. "That was an overtaken, in their intake, only Honor Code | Lane=s End Photo amazing start, and yet we kind by Liam's Map himself and the of went from a few weeks overnight sensation, Constitution. Nonetheless, it beggars belief before, when it was getting a little concerning, to all of a that a stallion of this profile should be condemned, in a single sudden, boom, boom, he gets a colt and a filly winning a Grade I cycle, to a median worth just 20 percent of his opening score. race. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • JUNE 14, 2020

McGrath cont. "We said all spring and early summer that this would really ASo, no, we were never panicking at all with Honor Code. We hurt Honor Code," Farish says. "Because we all felt like they'd be had so much confidence in him, and had been so pleased with later developing 2-year-olds, early 3-year-olds. Not having racing what his offspring looked like, and just felt they would come on during that crucial time, with horses like Honor A.P. and Max as they got older." Player unable to run, really prevented him getting off to the kind In the circumstances, however, the suspension of so much of start I think he would have done [otherwise]. So it was just racing because of the pandemic was an especially tedious very gratifying to see how well Honor A.P. ran last weekend." hindrance to a stallion whose stock would just be getting real If the market's absurd impetuosity put Liam's Map in the traction. greater demand this spring, Farish is confident that Honor Code's "incredible books in years one, two and three" will consolidate and sustain the gains he is making now. Certainly it isn't hard to picture Honor Code elevating his fee far beyond its current level in years to come. Because here is a living, breathing exemplar of the basic tenets on which this whole business achieves its viability. His elite genes, build and performance should together mean that Honor Code can only be a wholesome contributor to the breed. The same was true of his own sire, remember: A.P. Indy was the most expensive yearling of his crop and went on to become Horse of the Year. If there's any kind of validity to the lore agreed by generations of horsemen, then really Honor Code can't miss as a stallion.

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McGrath cont. There are, of course, extra dimensions specific to Honor A.P. Apart from anything else, he's out of a Grade I winner and, as a $850,000 Saratoga yearling for CRK Stable, qualified as the most expensive member of his sire's first crop. And then there's the sense of destiny vested in his name, a tribute to a grandsire whose passing in February, at the venerable age of 31, gave Honor A.P. an obvious cue to certify the continued vitality of the A.P. Indy dynasty. Honor Code himself had been charged with a very similar duty, as one of 36 named foals in A.P. Indy's final crop. In each case, moreover, there is a vivid imprint. While Honor Code had an idiosyncratic brilliance, working his way through the gears from the rear, in physical terms he appears to have served as a bridge between his sire and his son. "Honor A.P. has a lot of Honor Code in him," he says. "And all three have a similar running style, with that low head carriage. But this horse [Honor A.P.] also resembles A.P. Indy in the way he used to look like he wasn't running fast, but was passing everybody just the same. A.P. Indy had that cadence about his stride, and this horse does the same thing: just gets that long stride going. Even though A.P. Indy himself wasn't that big a horse, he had a very long stride. Honor A.P. also seems to have A.P. Indy's tactical speed, compared with Honor Code who would come from farther back in the race." Of course, Honor Code also introduces a female family no less illustrious than that of A.P. Indy himself, his dam Serena's Cat (Storm Cat) having made $1.4 million as a weanling grand-daughter of Hall of Famer and elite producer Serena's Song (Rahy). Quite apart from extending the Bold Ruler sire-line, then, Honor Code brings together two outstanding achievements, as an outstanding broodmare sire, of Bold Ruler's greatest son: both A.P. Indy and Storm Cat, of course, are out of Secretariat mares. (A.P. Indy's third dam Gay Missile, by the way, was by Secretariat's half-brother Sir Gaylord, himself a strong distaff influence, including through his sons.) Certainly anyone who wouldn't mind keeping a filly should be taking a very good look at Honor Code. In his own youth, Honor Code wrapped his genes into such a traffic-stopping package--this big, glossy animal with a head that seemed to bear an invisible crown--that William S. Farish of Lane's End, who had co-bred A.P. Indy, was prompt to work a deal with Dell Ridge to keep him out of the sales ring and race him in partnership. Admittedly, Honor Code's track career was not without its frustrations. Fast-tracked by Shug McGaughey from a debut success at Saratoga, he missed by a neck in the GI Champagne S. and instead settled, at two, for rallying past Cairo Prince (Pioneerof The Nile) in a crawl for the GII Remsen S. Cont. p6 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 6 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • JUNE 14, 2020

He then had to sit out the whole Triple Crown trail after influences--first three dams by Dynaformer, Never Bend and suffering an injury in the spring, but regrouped at four and set Swaps--and hardiness to the Classic credentials of Honor A.P. up his epic Whitney display with a scarcely less dramatic swoop She won elite races at two (Hollywood Starlet) and five (Vanity round the single turn of the GI H.) in a 27-race career for John Met Mile, feeding gratefully on Shirreffs, whose skilled hands white-knuckle fractions of 22.42, duly obtain the additional merit 44.92 and 1:08.74. (Runner-up of familiarity in dealing with Tonalist, incidentally, anticipated Honor A.P. his own fine effort in the Now 19, Hollywood Story's two Whitney: proofs of toughness, most accomplished foals to date class and versatility in the 2014 are both by another son of A.P. Belmont winner to be kept in Indy in Malibu Moon--GII mind by breeders, should they Saratoga Special S. runner-up find Honor Code's fee moving Hollywood Star, and stakes beyond reach.) winner Miss Hollywood--albeit Few animals in the breed's her overall record is no more history would have been able to than middling, given her reel in American Pharoah with opportunities. These included an the start Honor Code gave the Honor A.P. selling at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale | Fasig-Tipton early date with A.P. Indy, but the GI Breeders' Cup Classic field, resulting filly was unraced. but he did reach the podium and so sealed an Eclipse Award as Hollywood Story's stakes-placed dam (whose partners likewise champion older male. tended to be very eligible types, following the achievements of George Krikorian's Hollywood Story (Wild Rush) was among her first foal) had herself produced two duds, more or less, from the most distinguished of his first partners, and brings old-school assignations with A.P. Indy. Cont. p7 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 7 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • JUNE 14, 2020

McGrath cont. But the next dam was a half-sister to Kentucky Oaks winner It is only her grand-dam Huggle Duggle (Never Bend) whose Silent Beauty, tracing to none other than Myrtlewood. And that racing and breeding record feeds at all immediately into great matriarch also has a foothold in both sides of Honor Hollywood Story's distinction: she was a graded stakes winner Code's own page: Mr. Prospector, sire of his grand-dam Serena's on turf for Leslie Combs and dam of a German group Tune, famously traces to Myrtlewood; and so does My Charmer, winner/second dam of multiple graded stakes-winner Seattle who gave us A.P. Indy's sire Seattle Slew. Fitz (Arg) (Fitzcarraldo {Arg}). Honor A.P.'s build and running style are clearly oriented to dirt, but you couldn't rule out his sire producing turf runners. European investment in the Serena's Song family has produced some top-class grass runners, and Honor Code's half-brother by Unbridled's Song is Noble Tune, a Grade II winner on the surface and also runner-up in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf. In theory, at least, Honor Code's sparky acceleration--which was there from the outset, making up 22 lengths in the slop over seven furlongs on debut--might well have adapted to turf. True, the physical affinities between Honor A.P., his sire and grandsire have essentially combined into a low, powerful, raking stride tailored to dirt. But European breeders could do a lot worse than give Honor Code a chance to draw out his maternal line.

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McGrath cont. "Honor A.P. is well named, for sure," Farish says. "Getting such "He certainly could," says Farish, asked whether Honor Code a top horse out of A.P. Indy's last crop was amazing enough. But might prove at all versatile that way. "A.P. Indy did get some if Honor Code could be a true heir to his legacy, it would be [turf runners]. Not too many at the top level, but it's certainly amazing." possible. A few trainers I've talked to have said they have [Honor Codes] that seem to prefer the turf. But it doesn't seem like the majority."

Saturday, Belmont Park OGDEN PHIPPS S.-GI, $300,000, Belmont, 6-13, 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m, 1:40.27, ft. 1--SHE'S A JULIE, 122, m, 5, by Elusive Quality 1st Dam: Kydd Gloves, by Dubai Millennium (GB) 2nd Dam: Parade Queen, by A.P. Indy 3rd Dam: Spanish Parade, by Roberto ($160,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP). O-Bradley Thoroughbreds, Tim & Anna Tim, Cambron, Denali Stud, Rigney Racing, LLC & Madaket Stables LLC; B-Godolphin (KY); T-Steven M. Asmussen; J-Ricardo Santana, Jr. $165,000. Lifetime Record: 19-7-2-4, $1,187,880. Werk Nick Rating: B. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. A.P. Indy flanked by Mineshaft (left) and Honor Code (right) Justina Severni Photo

Overall the direction of travel seems clear. Honor Code's first graded stakes winner, Max Player, set the template: he didn't surface until November, but progressed from his maiden success 2--Point of Honor, 120, f, 4, by Curlin just before Christmas to win the GIII Withers S. in style. He is 1st Dam: Zayanna, by Bernardini pointing to the GI Belmont S., so already you couldn't rule out 2nd Dam: Heavenly Cat, by Tabasco Cat Honor Code's debut crop taking two of this year's three Classics. 3rd Dam: In Excelcis Deo, by Forty Niner The A.P. Indy legacy was already long secure, both as a sire of ($825,000 RNA Ylg '17 KEESEP). O-Eclipse Thoroughbred sires and as a broodmare sire. The Lane's End roster itself Partners and Stetson Racing, LLC; B-Siena Farms LLC (KY); reflects that, from Mineshaft (A.P. Indy)--himself now 21, a T-George Weaver. $60,000. reflection of his sire's longevity--to West Coast (Flatter); from Mr Speaker (Pulpit) to Tonalist. The distaff footprint, moreover, is now embedded by Catalina Cruiser (Union Rags), whose dam is a daughter of Mineshaft; while the incoming Game Winner (Candy Ride {Arg}) is out of an A.P. Indy mare. 3--Ollie's Candy, 122, m, 5, by Candy Ride (Arg) But there is no mistaking the extra fulfilment that would be 1st Dam: Afternoon Stroll, by Stroll shared by the whole Lane's End team, should it turn out that the 2nd Dam: Gertie, by Danzatore great patriarch had reserved his most eligible successor until 3rd Dam: Granny Ruth, by Key to the Mint last. ($45,000 RNA Ylg '16 KEESEP). O/B-Paul & Karen Eggert (KY); In the Keeneland catalogue, Honor A.P. had actually been T-John W. Sadler. $36,000. registered as Hollywood Hero. With his matinee idol looks, it made ample sense. But the script has since been turned over to Margins: NO, NK, 8 1/4. Odds: 14.70, 2.00, 2.05. a new studio. CRK Stable aptly anticipated a sentimental Also Ran: Blamed, Pink Sands, Golden Award. Click for the plot-line: the death of the grandsire, the accession of the sire, Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free the emergence of a new prince. Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Cont. p9 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 9 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • JUNE 14, 2020

Ollie=s Candy put away her pace foe at the head of the lane, definitive runner will likely always be 2004 champion 3-year-old but was clearly leg weary as her lead began to evaporate in the Smarty Jones, but the son carrying his name forward in the final furlong. She=s a Julie boxed on gamely in between, and got breed is Quality Road, who ranks among the most commercial her nose down on the line just ahead of