Runner-up to Pride in a Longchamp Gr 2, Simplex returns from Switzerland to begin his stud career in the Orne. The son of Rainbow Quest is from the family of Marienbard, Sakura Reiko and Top Sunrise.

A well-bred (his maternal line counts five black-type dams), precocious, pysically imposing and proven sire, Honours List arrives in France for his first season at the Haras de Saint-Arnoult in Normandy.