With Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey on hand, Honor Code (A.P. Indy) and
McGaughey said Honor Code worked five furlongs by himself on the main track in
“They both worked fine and came back fine,” McGaughey said. “Everything’s good.
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McGaughey is looking for a second-level allowance to get Top Billing started
this year. The chestnut won an allowance at Gulfstream Park last January but
hasn’t raced in 11 months while recovering from a cracked right front cannon
bone sustained following his third-place finish in the Fountain of Youth (G2).
“He’s ready to run,” McGaughey said. “There’s not any sense to running him
seven-eighths or something like that; he’d get lost. When the right thing comes
up, we’ll look at it. There’s not one in this (condition) book, but hopefully in
the next book there will be something.”
Honor Code is being pointed to the one-mile, $300,000 Gulfstream Park H. (G2) on
February 28. He returned from an eight-month layoff due to a torn right hind
upper suspensory to win an allowance on November 22 at Aqueduct.
“I just wanted to run him before I brought him down here, and I didn’t want to
run him in a race where I’d gut him. That race worked out perfect for him,”
McGaughey said. “I just didn’t really want to run him in something like the
Hal’s Hope (G3) or the Donn (G1). I want to have a fresh horse for the summer. I
debated back and forth whether to even run him down here this winter and decided
if everything goes right to go ahead and run him in the mile race and then maybe
run him another time or so when we get back up north. We’d like to run him in
the Met Mile (G1) if everything goes right and then use the better handicap
races over the summer.”
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