It was a clean sweep of the two stakes races at Woodbine on July 23 for owner Gary Barber and trainer Mark Casse. Just before the team won the 68th Woodbine Oaks with Elysian Field (also owned by Barry Irwin’s Team Valor International), they celebrated the front-running romp in the $150,000 Plate Trial by PARAMOUNT PRINCE (Society’s Chairman – Platinum Steel by Eddington), also owned by Orillia’s Mike Langlois and family.
A sensational debut winner last year when trained by Jamie Attard for Langlois, Paramount Prince finished third in the Clarendon Stakes after a share was sold to Barber. Casse trained the horse in Florida and then sent him out to be second in both starts this year including the Queenston Stakes.
Let go at 11-to-1 in the Trial, Paramount Prince zipped to the lead with jockey Patrick Husbands sitting up high on the chestnut gelding. No other horse wanted to stay with him and he was clear on the backstretch, setting a slow mark of 48.58 for the first four furlongs.