Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Honor A. P.

Honor A. P.

Honor Code–Hollywood Story, by Wild Rush

Bred in Kentucky by George Krikorian ($850,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase by C R K Stable)

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Regally bred Honor Code, by breed-shaping sire A.P. Indy and out of a stakes-winning and multiple stakes-producing granddaughter of Hall of Famer and blue hen Serena’s Song, was always expected to be a good one, and he delivered early as a Grade 2-winning juvenile. But he blossomed with his best season as a 4-year-old to earn an Eclipse Award championship, with Grade 1 wins in the Metropolitan and Whitney. His own foals have been expected to blossom with age and experience – and, thus far, that has been the case. The additional months until the Kentucky Derby may be of benefit to Honor A. P., who returned from a layoff of nearly five months to finish second in the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at 1 1/16 miles.

Honor Code has four stakes performers from his first crop, all of those emerging this year as 3-year-olds. In addition to Honor A. P., Honor Code has another player on the Derby trail in Max Player, who won the Grade 3 Withers Stakes at 1 1/8 miles in his first start of the season. Honor Code also is the sire of two stakes-placed fillies sprinting this year in Roadrunner’s Honor, third in the Grade 3 Sweet Life Stakes on turf, and Fashion Code, third in the Cincinnati Trophy on a synthetic track.

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Honor A. P. is out of the millionaire Wild Rush mare Hollywood Story, who won the Grade 1 Hollywood Starlet as a juvenile and continued on to win the Grade 1 Vanity Invitational Handicap as a 5-year-old. In between, in four full seasons of racing, the mare won two other graded stakes and placed in 11 graded events, including Grade 1 events on both dirt and turf. She was trained by John Shirreffs, who conditions Honor A. P.

Hollywood Story also is the dam of stakes winner Miss Hollywood, Grade 2 placed Hollywood Star, and stakes-placed Hoorayforhollywood. Miss Hollywood and Hollywood Star are by A.P. Indy’s son Malibu Moon, and these lines have been a productive cross. Another Grade 1-winning Wild Rush mare, Dream Rush, is the dam of Grade 1 winner Dreaming of Julia, by A.P. Indy, and Grade 3 winner Dream Pauline, by A.P. Indy’s grandson Tapit.

This is the extended family of Kentucky Oaks winner Silent Beauty, multiple Grade 1 winner Annals of Time, and Argentinian Group 1 winners Honey Nov and Top One Scape.

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