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November 19 Insights: Half to Sires Honor Code, Noble Tune Debuts

5th-CD, $120k, Msw, 3yo/up, 6f, 3:01p.m. ET
Conditioner Steve Asmussen will unveil the regally-bred WITHOUT A SONG (Medaglia d'Oro), a half-brother to Champion older horse Honor Code (A.P. Indy) as well as GISP Noble Tune (Unbridled's Song); hailing from the female family of Hall of Famer and blue-hen Serena's Song (Rahy). This is also the family of MGSW Vocalised (Vindication) and Grand Reward (Storm Cat) as well as at least nine other graded and group runners beneath that stellar third dam. The late starter will have Ricardo Santana Jr. in the irons. TJCIS PPs

6th-CD, $120k, Msw, 2yo, 6 1/2f, 3:31p.m. ET
OXO Equine's $450,000 KEENOV 2020 pick-up BROMLEY (Mastery) will show his mettle against a field of 11 others here in this baby dash beneath the Twin Spires. A half to MSP Crew Dragon (Exaggerator), and out of a half-sister to GSW Liam's Dream, the colt claims MGSP Local Hero (Hard Spun) as well as GSP Holdontoyourdream (Proud Citizen) in his immediate female family. This is the extended maternal line of Distorted Humor (Forty Niner). Paulo Lobo is the trainer. Farthest of all will be Lark's Mischief (Into Mischief), who is out of MGISP Miss Besilu (Medaglia d'Oro), herself a producer of MGSP Gun It (Tapit) hailing from Quiet Dance (Quiet American), better known as the granddam of Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}) and dam of Horse of the Year Saint Liam (Saint Ballado). Steve Asmussen will send this one to post. TJCIS PPs

8th-CD, $120k, Msw, 2yo, 6 1/2f, 4:3p.m. ET
EVENT DETAIL (City of Light) will be another pricy runner to debut for OXO Equine on the Churchill Downs card. A $600,000 FTKNOV purchase in 2020, the colt is out of a young half-sister to GSW & MGSP Osidy (Storm Cat) and to GSW Quetsche (Gone West). The second dam is German High-weight older mare Que Belle (Seattle Dancer) who herself came from a very active European racing family. TJCIS PPs

5th-AQU, $85k, Msw, 2yo, 6 1/2f, 1:46p.m. ET
Centennial Farms picked up LITIGATE (Blame) for $370,000 at KEESEP last year, and he's been put into the Todd Pletcher barn for this unveiling. Out of an unplaced half-sister to MGSW Pacific Ocean (Ghostzapper) as well as SP Salsa Star (Giant's Causeway), who herself produced MGSW Blamed (Blame) and SP Chubby Star (Malibu Moon). Litigate put up a swift four-furlong work in :46.20 over the Belmont Park training track Nov. 11, making it the second fastest of a whopping 184 that morning. This is the extended female family of Champion 2-year-old colt Rhythm (Mr. Prospector), GISW Girolamo (A.P. Indy) and his full-brother GISP Accelerator. TJCIS PPs

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Honor Code’s Home Cooking Sizzles in Del Mar Rising Star Romp

Mike Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman's Home Cooking (Honor Code), beaten at 1-2 debuting three weeks earlier at Del Mar, proved that money right and then some with a dominant off-the-pace romp to earn 'TDN Rising Star' honors Sunday at the seaside oval.

Coming into her debut off a best-of-124 half-mile move in :46 flat July 24, the $11,000 Fasig-Tipton October buy turned $260,000 OBS March purchase (:9 4/5 breeze) was pressed through a swift :21.44 quarter and won the battle, but lost the war, fading late to finish third. Once again punched down to 1-2 while removing blinkers here, the bay was outsprinted early and settled comfortably in fifth as stablemate and $1-million OBSMAR buy Muteki (American Pharoah) led narrowly through a quarter in :21.63. Longshot firster She's Inthearmynow (Army Mule) was the first to push her chips in and overtook the pacesetter on the latter half of the bend, but Home Cooking was just getting going and blew past the new leader at the top of the lane. Under mild encouragement from Mike Smith, the favorite quickly closed the proceedings and strutted her stuff all alone through the final furlong, hitting the wire a powerful 9 1/4-length victress. Monique (Union Rags) completed the exacta.

The second 'Rising Star' for Lane's End's champion Honor Code, Home Cooking is the second foal to race out of her dam, following Gold for Kitten (Kitten's Joy), third in a pair of stakes as a 3-year-old in 2021. Her second dam produced four-time turf sprint stake winner Successful Native (Successful Appeal) and is a half to MGSW Valid Expectations (Valid Appeal), GSW Little Sister (Valid Appeal) and two other stakes victors. Bought by DARRS for $28,000 last year at Keeneland November, Olympic Avenue has a yearling Take Charge Indy filly named Liar for Hire.

7th-Del Mar, $82,500, Msw, 8-21, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, 1:03.94, ft,
9 1/4 lengths.
HOME COOKING, f, 2, Honor Code
1st Dam: Olympic Avenue, by Hard Spun
2nd Dam: Picketline, by Street Cry (Ire)
3rd Dam: Mepache, by Iron Constitution
Sales History: $34,000 RNA Ylg '21 FTKJUL; $11,000 Ylg '21 FTKOCT; $260,000 2yo '22 OBSMAR. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-1, $57,600. O-Michael E. Pegram, Karl Watson & Paul Weitman; B-Kenneth L. & Sarah K. Ramsey (KY); T-Bob Baffert.
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Bourbon Bash Can’t Be Caught For D. Wayne Lukas

7th-Saratoga, $105,000, Msw, 8-13, 2yo, 6f, 1:11.77, ft, 8 lengths.
BOURBON BASH (c, 2, City of Light–Buy Sell Hold {SW & GSP, $125,520}, by Violence) made it a hat trick for jockey Flavien Prat, breaking from the inside gate and wasting no time in flashing his early speed to quickly open up a length on the field in the first furlong. Under a stoic ride a path off the rail, Bourbon Bash put six lengths on a quartet of chasers passing the quarter pole and never gave them a chance to catch him, marching home on cruise control to defeat a loaded field of maidens by eight lengths without ever being asked at odds of 4-1. Ohana Honor (Honor Code) drew in off the also-eligible list and closed well to fill out the exacta. Bourbon Bash is the fourth winner for his freshman sire (by Quality Road) and second at Saratoga. Buy Sell Hold is a full-sister to GI A.G. Vanderbilt H. winner and current Three Chimneys stallion Volatile and the third dam is MGISW Lady Tak (Mutakddim). Bourbon Bash, his dam's first foal, has a yearling half-sister by Union Rags and a weanling half-brother by Uncle Mo. Buy Sell Hold was bred back to Gun Runner for a 2023 foal. Sales History: $280,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $78,750. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O-BC Stables, LLC; B-Machmer Hall (KY); T-D. Wayne Lukas.

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Honor Code Juvenile Romps at Woodbine

2nd-Woodbine, C$107,630, Msw, 5-21, 2yo, 4 1/2f (AWT), :51.58, ft, 5 1/2 lengths.
STAYHONOR GOODSIDE (c, 2, Honor Code–Nicki Knew {SW, $386,114}, by Tethra) was favored at 6-5 in this debut and made it look like a gift with a dominant debut score at Woodbine Saturday. Away alertly, the $85,000 KEESEP buy contested the early pace and slammed the door on his rivals in the lane to win for fun by 5 1/2 lengths over Captive Silence (Silent Name {Jpn}). The winner is a half to Imperial Dream (Stormy Atlantic), SW, $156,137 and is the first winner for his dam since that one, Nicki Knew only producing two surviving foals in the eight years between them. There was no report in 2021 but Stayhonor Goodside has a 2022 half-sister by Caravaggio. This is the family of millionaire and MG1SW Hawk Wing (Woodman), GSW turned group-stakes producer Race for the Stars (Fusaichi Pegasus), and Canadian Horse of the Year & Champion grass horse Thornfield (Sky Classic). The colt's name came about by way of a contest on the TDN Writers' Room podcast, when D.J. Stable General Manager Jon Green challenged listeners to come up with a clever name based on the colt's breeding as part of a promotion sponsored by Lane's End Farm. The winning entry was submitted by Skip Anderson, a champion Hampshire sheep breeder from North Dakota. Sales history: $85,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $48,142. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O-D. J. Stable LLC; B-Stan Dodson (ON); T-Mark E. Casse.

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