Final Belmont Breeze for Honor Code

Honor Code (A.P. Indy) completed preparations for Saturday’s GI Breeders’ Cup Classic with a four-furlong move at Belmont Park Sunday in :48.00. It was the fastest of 21 at the distance over the main Belmont track Sunday.

“He did very well, everything is very good with him,” said trainer Shug McGaughey. “We caught him from the three-eighths pole to the mile-and-three-eighths pole in :48, with his last three-eighths in :35 4/5. It was pretty dark, which is why we breezed there.”

Honor Code, winner of the GI Met Mile and GI Whitney H. this year, is coming off a third-place effort in the GII Kelso H.

“All you can do is take him over there and see what happens,” McGaughey said. “I couldn’t be happier. I wish they were running it today so I wouldn’t have to worry about it anymore.”

Honor A. P.