Honor Code on schedule, Bayern and Untapable work

Gulfstream Park Handicap winner Honor Code will revert to a mile for Saturday’s Metropolitan (Leslie Martin/Adam Coglianese Photography) Multiple Grade 2 winner Honor Code (A.P. Indy) remains on track for his next scheduled start in Saturday’s $1.25 million Metropolitan H. (G1). Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey said Monday morning that the four-year-old ridgling emerged from Sunday’s half-mile breeze in good order. Honor Code was clocked in :49 over Belmont Park’s main track. “He came back very good,” McGaughey said. “His works have all been good since he ran. He seems to be doing good, he looks good, and he’s training good. We’re looking forward to running him.”

Honor Code has worked three times since finishing fifth, beaten six lengths,
in the Alysheba (G2) on May 1 at Churchill Downs.

The loss snapped a two-race win streak for Honor Code, knocked from the
Triple Crown trail last spring with a suspensory injury. He won an Aqueduct
allowance in November and the Gulfstream Park H. (G2) on March 7 at the Met Mile
distance.

“I just didn’t think he got hold of the racetrack,” McGaughey said. “It
happens to a lot of horses at Churchill.”

Also being pointed to the Met Mile is multiple Grade 1 winner Bayern, who
breezed a strong five furlongs in company with graded stakes-placed Cat Burglar
(Unbridled’s Song) Monday morning at Churchill Downs for Hall of Fame trainer
Bob Baffert.

Bayern, the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner, went in :59 1/5,
second-fastest of 20 horses, while Cat Burglar got the same distance in :59 4/5.

Ogden Phipps candidate Untapable was a course-and-distance winner at Belmont last year (Oaklawn Park/Coady Photography) Bayern is expected to be on the same Tuesday morning flight from Kentucky that is carrying Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness (G1)-winning stablemate American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) to New York. Untapable (Tapit), the unanimous choice as the 2014 champion three-year-old filly, put in her final work over a sloppy Belmont Park track on Monday morning in preparation for the $1 million Ogden Phipps (G1) on Saturday. Trained by Steve Asmussen, Untapable breezed an easy four furlongs in :49 2/5 under regular exercise rider Mike Callaham. Her work was the fastest of three horses traveling the same distance, and her stablemate, Shook Up (Tapit), turned in the second best time of :50 1/5 when Callaham took her to the track this morning.

Shook Up was the Kentucky Oaks (G1) runner-up in her last start, and she will
run in Saturday’s $750,000 Acorn (G1).

With Asmussen not expected to arrive until later in the week, assistant Scott
Blasi supervised the final preparations and said that both efforts were easy
maintenance breezes for the fillies as they had already completed all of their
major works.

Untapable won the Apple Blossom H. (G1) at Oaklawn in April in her last
start.

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