Code of Honor works toward Travers

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Code of Honor, the Kentucky Derby runner-up who won the Grade 3 Dwyer Stakes, won’t be running in Saturday’s Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes, but he did return to the work tab Monday morning, breezing three furlongs in 38.53 seconds over the Oklahoma training track.

Code of Honor, who is pointing to the Grade 1 Travers on Aug. 24, galloped out a half-mile in 51.43 and five furlongs in 1:04.11.

“Just getting him started again, I thought it was good,” trainer Shug McGaughey said. “We’ll get him back in a routine and go from there.”

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McGaughey said Code of Honor would probably benefit from having the extra time from the Dwyer to the Travers rather than run back in three weeks in the Jim Dandy.

“I’d like to have had a two-turn race into him but coming back in three weeks, if he ran hard and it beat him up, then I wouldn’t be right for the Travers,” McGaughey said.