To Honor and Serve Gets First Stakes Winner
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Photo: Courtesy Presidente Remon
Steps to Heaven winning the Oct. 2 Clasico Arquimedes "Fat" Fernandez D. Stakes
Gainesway's freshman sire To Honor and Serve got his first black-type stakes winner when Steps to Heaven won the Clasico Arquimedes "Fat" Fernandez D. Stakes Oct. 2 at Presidente Remon in Panama.
The chestnut colt, bred in Kentucky by Machmer Hall, is the first stakes winner out of the Devil's Bag daughter Aunt Beth. She's produced one other winner with Denotation, a daughter of Pioneerof the Nile .
Steps to Heaven was sold as a 2-year-old through the 2016 Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring 2-year-olds in training sale for $20,000 to Fundacion Tresdel out of Eddie Woods' consignment. The colt is owned by Eric Antonio Delvalle and trained by Odin londoño. He is now undefeated in two starts, according to Presidente Remon.
The Arquimedes Fernandez, which is classified as a grade III in Panama only, was raced at 1,200 meters (six furlongs). The winning time was 1:12 3/5.
To Honor and Serve is a multiple graded stakes-winning son of Bernardini . He won the Nashua Stakes and Remsen Stakes (both grade II) at 2, took the grade I Cigar Mile Handicap at 3, and won the Woodward Stakes (gr. I) at 4. To Honor and Served retired with nearly $1.8 million in earnings.
The 8-year-old stallion has two other stakes horses so far this year. His 2016 stud fee is $15,000.