Honor Code Injured, Off Derby Trail

Lane’s End Racing and Dell Ridge Farm’s Honor Code (A.P. Indy) has sustained a slight tear in his right hind upper suspensory according to trainer Shug McGaughey and will be forced to miss both the GI Wood Memorial S. and the Triple Crown. “It will heal,” said McGaughey yesterday of the injury. “We discovered it this morning. We’ll give it 60 days and then re-evaluate it.” A close second in last October’s GI Champagne S., the “TDN Rising Star” stamped himself as a winter book favorite for the GI Kentucky Derby after out-nosing Cairo Prince (Pioneerof the Nile) in the GII Remsen S. at Aqueduct. He was last seen finishing second to Social Inclusion (Pioneerof the Nile) in a Gulfstream allowance Mar. 12 and worked four furlongs in :48.12 Saturday at Gulfstream Park. Hall of Famer McGaughey, who won last year’s Kentucky Derby with Orb (Malibu Moon), also lost Derby contender Top Billing (Curlin) to injury earlier this month.