To Honor and Serve now standing in Korea

To Honor and Serve, a Grade 1 winner whose first foals are 4-year-olds of 2018, has been exported to Korea to continue his stud career.

The 10-year-old son of Bernardini previously stood at Gainesway in Lexington, Ky., where he was advertised for $7,500. He arrived in Korea on March 14, according to Korean Racing Authority records.

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To Honor and Serve has sired three crops of racing age, with 80 winners and combined progeny earnings of more than $3.8 million. His top runners include Panamanian Group 2 winner Steps to Heaven, stakes winner Blueridge Traveler, and Grade 1-placed State of Honor, who ran in last year’s Kentucky Derby and Queen’s Plate.

In Korea, the stallion’s most notable offspring is Cheongdam Dokki, who was named the country’s champion 3-year-old colt of 2017.

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To Honor and Serve won 8 of 17 starts for earnings of $1,798,840, highlighted by victories in the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes and Cigar Mile Handicap; the Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby, Remsen Stakes, and Nashua Stakes; and the Grade 3 Westchester Stakes.

Bred in Kentucky by Twin Creeks Farm, Larry Byer, and Rancho San Miguel, To Honor and Serve is out of the stakes-winning Deputy Minister mare Pilfer, whose four winners from seven foals to race also include Grade 1 winner Angela Renee and Grade 1-placed stakes winner Elnaawi. He is from the family of Grade 2 winner India.