On July 7, Honor D Lady added a third graded stakes win to her resume in the Delaware Handicap (USA-G2). Unhurried while cruising comfortably off a moderate pace in the early going, the Honor Code filly assumed command easily on the far turn and drew off under a hand ride from Jose Ortiz to score by 5½ lengths. It was the 4-year-old filly’s first win at the Grade 2 level and boosted her lifetime record to five wins from 13 starts with earnings of $708,167.
Honor D Lady’s racing accomplishments are in line with her glittering female family, which has played a prominent role in American racing and breeding since the days of Grey Flight. A stakes winner for the powerful Wheatley Stable of Gladys Mills Phipps, Grey Flight produced champion Misty Morn and eight other stakes winners, and she etched her name deeply into American bloodstock annals through her champion sire son What a Pleasure (by Bold Ruler) and a bevy of stakes-producing daughters.
A goodly chunk of Grey Flight’s tail-female descendants ended up being passed to Mrs Phipps’s son Ogden Phipps, among them Clear Ceiling, who produced 1980 One Thousand Guineas (ENG-G1) winner Quick as Lightining (by Buckpasser) for him. More importantly, she also produced Pure Profit, an allowance-winning daughter of Key to the Mint who lived up to her name in the breeding shed.
Pure Profit and her family were touched on back in 2021 in connection with a win in the Noble Damsel Stakes (USA-G3) by her fourth-generation descendant Shifty She (“Mares on Monday: Double Profit Leads to Double Profit," October 25, 2021), but a brief review seems in order here. Three of her nine foals were stakes winners, headed by 1995 American champion older female Inside Information (by Private Account). Although her breeding career was negatively impacted by her tendency to pass on a problem with narrowed vertebrae, Inside Information became the dam of 2005 American champion 3-year-old filly Smuggler (by Unbridled) and the second dam of 2009 Ohio Derby (USA-G2) winner Gone Astray (by Dixie Union).
Pure Profit’s stakes-winning son Diamond (by Mr. Prospector) has had little impact as a sire, but Diamond’s full sister Educated Risk has been something else again. The winner of the 1992 Frizette Stakes (USA-G1) as a juvenile and the 1994 Top Flight Handicap (USA-G1) at 4, she was a moderately successful broodmare during her own producing career, foaling stakes winners Strategy (by A.P. Indy) and Consequence (by El Prado). She is also the dam of Perilous (by Danzig), whose Monarchos daughter React is the dam of 2012 Gran Premio Estrellas Mile (ARG-G1) winner Evilasio and 2012 Premio Pedro E. y Manuel A, Crespo (ARG-G3) winner Black Coyote, Both of React’s stakes winners are by Manipulator, a son of Unbridled out of Inside Information who has ranked three times among Argentina’s top 10 sires. The same strategy of inbreeding to Pure Profit resulted in Shifty She, who is by Gone Astray out of Perilous Hope (Strong Hope x Perilous).
Alluring, Educated Risk’s 1999 daughter by A.P. Indy, is the dam of Genuine Charm (by Dixie Union), whose son Encanto Veloz (by Verrazano) won the 2021 Premio Selección de Potrillos (CHI-G3). Thanks to Honor D Lady, Consequence has also gotten into the family act via her daughter Complicated (by Blame), who produced the Delaware Handicap winner as her third foal after giving birth to stakes winner Churchtown (by Air Force Blue) the year before. Complicated is also the dam of Simply in Front (by Summer Front), third in the 2023 Johnnie Walker Natalma Stakes (CAN-G1) and has since produced the 2022 Omaha Beach filly And One More Time, a 2023 War Front filly, and a 2024 colt by Golden Pal.
As the daughter of a champion and the scion of a deep family, Honor D Lady will undoubtedly be a most attractive broodmare prospect when the time comes for her to leave the track for the paddocks. In the meantime, she has already proven an excellent investment off the US$40,000 she cost as a yearling, and anything that she adds to her bankroll in the meantime will be pure profit indeed.
Honor D Lady’s racing accomplishments are in line with her glittering female family, which has played a prominent role in American racing and breeding since the days of Grey Flight. A stakes winner for the powerful Wheatley Stable of Gladys Mills Phipps, Grey Flight produced champion Misty Morn and eight other stakes winners, and she etched her name deeply into American bloodstock annals through her champion sire son What a Pleasure (by Bold Ruler) and a bevy of stakes-producing daughters.
A goodly chunk of Grey Flight’s tail-female descendants ended up being passed to Mrs Phipps’s son Ogden Phipps, among them Clear Ceiling, who produced 1980 One Thousand Guineas (ENG-G1) winner Quick as Lightining (by Buckpasser) for him. More importantly, she also produced Pure Profit, an allowance-winning daughter of Key to the Mint who lived up to her name in the breeding shed.
Pure Profit and her family were touched on back in 2021 in connection with a win in the Noble Damsel Stakes (USA-G3) by her fourth-generation descendant Shifty She (“Mares on Monday: Double Profit Leads to Double Profit," October 25, 2021), but a brief review seems in order here. Three of her nine foals were stakes winners, headed by 1995 American champion older female Inside Information (by Private Account). Although her breeding career was negatively impacted by her tendency to pass on a problem with narrowed vertebrae, Inside Information became the dam of 2005 American champion 3-year-old filly Smuggler (by Unbridled) and the second dam of 2009 Ohio Derby (USA-G2) winner Gone Astray (by Dixie Union).
Pure Profit’s stakes-winning son Diamond (by Mr. Prospector) has had little impact as a sire, but Diamond’s full sister Educated Risk has been something else again. The winner of the 1992 Frizette Stakes (USA-G1) as a juvenile and the 1994 Top Flight Handicap (USA-G1) at 4, she was a moderately successful broodmare during her own producing career, foaling stakes winners Strategy (by A.P. Indy) and Consequence (by El Prado). She is also the dam of Perilous (by Danzig), whose Monarchos daughter React is the dam of 2012 Gran Premio Estrellas Mile (ARG-G1) winner Evilasio and 2012 Premio Pedro E. y Manuel A, Crespo (ARG-G3) winner Black Coyote, Both of React’s stakes winners are by Manipulator, a son of Unbridled out of Inside Information who has ranked three times among Argentina’s top 10 sires. The same strategy of inbreeding to Pure Profit resulted in Shifty She, who is by Gone Astray out of Perilous Hope (Strong Hope x Perilous).
Alluring, Educated Risk’s 1999 daughter by A.P. Indy, is the dam of Genuine Charm (by Dixie Union), whose son Encanto Veloz (by Verrazano) won the 2021 Premio Selección de Potrillos (CHI-G3). Thanks to Honor D Lady, Consequence has also gotten into the family act via her daughter Complicated (by Blame), who produced the Delaware Handicap winner as her third foal after giving birth to stakes winner Churchtown (by Air Force Blue) the year before. Complicated is also the dam of Simply in Front (by Summer Front), third in the 2023 Johnnie Walker Natalma Stakes (CAN-G1) and has since produced the 2022 Omaha Beach filly And One More Time, a 2023 War Front filly, and a 2024 colt by Golden Pal.
As the daughter of a champion and the scion of a deep family, Honor D Lady will undoubtedly be a most attractive broodmare prospect when the time comes for her to leave the track for the paddocks. In the meantime, she has already proven an excellent investment off the US$40,000 she cost as a yearling, and anything that she adds to her bankroll in the meantime will be pure profit indeed.
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