Greatest Honour Nearly Ready To Resume Training; McGaughey Will Target Winter Campaign Sponsored by:
Greatest Honour wins the Fountain of Youth Stakes
Trainer Shug McGaughey told
bloodhorse.com on Monday that multiple graded stakes-winning 3-year-old Greatest Honour should be ready to resume training by Sept. 1. A Courtlandt Farm homebred son of Tapit, the colt won both the G3 Holy Bull and G2 Fountain of Youth to kick off his 2020 season.
Greatest Honour has been off since a disappointing third-place finish as the favorite in the G1 Florida Derby on March 27.
“He had an old cyst in a pastern and we gave him time for it to fill in,” McGaughey told
Greatest Honour on Course to Resume Training Sept 1
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Conditions Suit First Captain in Spa s Curlin Stakes
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Lightly raced First Captain works toward start in Friday’s Curlin | The Daily Gazette
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SARATOGA SPRINGS First Captain has been playing catch-up.
Actually, he’s been winning catch-up, if that’s a game in which you give your classmates a huge head start, then you try to cut the gap.
Unraced at 2 in 2020 and until April this year, after having been purchased for $1.5 million at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling Sale, the son of Curlin is undefeated from three career starts, most recently the Grade III Dwyer at Belmont Park on July 5.
Now, the Aug. 28 Travers is on his calendar, provided he proves himself worthy of the shot when he runs in the Curlin at Saratoga Race Course. He worked in company with Cambi Lion on the Oklahoma Training Track first thing Saturday morning, and showed nothing to dissuade trainer Shug McGaughey from forging ahead to the Curlin and thinking about the Travers.