06/19/2025
JUNE 18, 2025 BY BERNIE DICKMAN
Honor That Dude wins by a mile in Louisiana
Honor That Dude was off to a slow start as a 2-year-old, but he’s making up for it at three in Louisiana. The Curlin’s Honor gelding could only muster up a second and a third in seven 2024 races, but this season, after a mammoth winning race at Evangeline Downs, he’s 3-1-0 in his last seven.
C. J. McMahon was aboard for Honor That Dude’s latest, which went at seven furlongs over the main track. The $10,000 OBS October yearling bred by Maverick Stables battled through the first quarter, took over by himself at the half, then sprinted away from the field and won by an eye-popping 12 3/4 lengths. His clocking of 1:24.01 was just two seconds off the track record.
The Louisiana-bred gelding paid $2.40 and earned a check of $7,800 for owner/trainer Justin Jeansonne, boosting his total to $46,550, with $37,250 coming this year.
Way up north at Parx Racing, the Curlin’s Honor 3-year-old filly J J’s Honor went wire-to-wire to break her maiden under Eliseo Ruiz in her ninth start, also at seven furlongs. A $37,000 OBS 2023 Winter Mixed purchase bred by Sharon J. and Thomas R. Equi, J J’s Honor won by five lengths in 1:26.73 and collected $11,400.
