Eight of the last nine Valedictory Stakes have been won by horses trained by Mark Casse, Marty Drexler, or Kevin Attard.
Mark Casse
Bossy Candy was odds-on for the Shady Well Stakes and ran to those odds; Jose Campos broke a shin bone on Saturday.
With a name like Langcrest Farm, the grey Princecrest rates much respect in the 98th Clarendon Stakes at Woodbine on Nov. 23.
For the second straight week, poor fall weather in southern Ontario halted racing at Woodbine, but Sid Attard won with three horses.
More than 75% of the races run on the Tapeta surface at Woodbine have been won on the rail, on a daily basis, for several weeks.
Mark Casse-trained Elysian Field, Olivia Rose, Stormcast and Ticker Tape Home will face five others on the main track on Saturday.
US-based Tom's Magic is looking good in workouts for the King's Plate; trainer Mark Casse will be at Saratoga next week.
D. J. Stables fillies finished first and second in the Bison City Stakes, the second jewel of the Triple Tiara.
The Saturday stakes is a 1 1/16-mile main track event and the second leg of the Triple Tiara for three-year-old fillies foaled in Canada.
Patrick Husbands picked the right Mark Casse trainee for the Seagram Cup on Saturday and won on Swift Delivery.
The four-year-old comes into the turf race in good form for trainer Mark Casse and owners Mike and Rhonda Erwin and Mark David Hixson.
A surge in the late stretch saw the Candy Ride daughter, piloted by Sahin Civaci, overtake rivals to win ahead of Somethinabouther and It Ain’t Two.
Monterey Bay is one of 12 horses on the Canadian Thoroughbred list of 166th King's Plate contenders and a filly has a big chance again.
The bay filly by Not This Time was winning for the third time in eight starts; next stop is the King's Plate on August 16.
Woodbine's 16-time leading trainer is the 14th conditioner to win 4,000 races in North America. He hit that mark at Colonial Downs.
