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Pedigree fun facts: Greatest Honour Feb 1, 2021 Kellie Reilly/Brisnet.com
As a
Tapit colt out of a half-sister to two Belmont S. (G1) winners,
Greatest Honour has the third jewel of the Triple Crown written all over him. So it’s highly encouraging that he’s burst onto the Kentucky Derby (G1) trail with a stellar display as early as the Holy Bull (G3).
The Courtlandt Farms homebred became Tapit’s second major contender for the 2021 Derby, after Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) champion Essential Quality. Tapit also has the promising Proxy, runner-up in the Lecomte (G3).
From the sire line of 1977 Triple Crown legend
Pedigree fun facts: Midnight Bourbon Jan 25, 2021 Kellie Reilly/Brisnet.com
The
Man o’ War sire line hasn’t come up with a Kentucky Derby (G1) winner since Triple Crown sweeper War Admiral (1937), a factoid that current contender
Midnight Bourbon hopes to erase.
Midnight Bourbon’s sire, Hall of Famer
Tiznow, has helped carry the torch for Man o’ War. Over the past century, his male line has been in danger of becoming more of a flicker than a flame at times, but it has persevered.
While Man o’ War’s greatest son, War Admiral, left his legacy as a broodmare sire, another son,
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Midnight Bourbon and Joe Talamo hold off Proxy and Mandaloun to win the Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds
From one of the last crops by the now-pensioned Tiznow (by Cee s Tizzy), Midnight Bourbon became his sire s 81st stakes winner with a victory in the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans on Jan. 16.
Last year, Midnight Bourbon had shown high-class form. The bay had finished second to Sittin On Go (Brody s Cause) in the G3 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs on Sept. 5 and had been third to Jackie s Warrior and Reinvestment Risk in the G1 Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park on Oct. 10 in the last start at two for Midnight Bourbon.