If not for a bit of traffic trouble in his first career start less than a month ago, To Honor and Serve might just have been going for win number two versus her second start against non-winners at Belmont on October 2. However, the sixth winner sired by freshman sire Bernardini left no doubt who was the best in the one and one-sixteenth mile event, pulling away to win easily by eight and three-quarter lengths.
To Honor and Serve is out of the Listed Deputy Minister mare Pilfer, she a half-sister to G2 winner India. To Honor and Serve was bred by Twin Creeks Farm, Larry Byer and Ranch San Miguel in Kentucky and was purchased by her owner, Live Oak Plantation, at Keeneland September in 2009 for $575,000.
Champion Bernardini’s five other winners from his first crop include G3 winner and G1-placed Theyskens’ Theory, G1-placed Stay Thirsty and G3-placed A Z Warrior.
