Following a stirring Grade 1 Whitney Stakes at Saratoga on August 8, Sovereignty is back on top, while the filly Nitrogen will go to Spinster.
Mark Casse
Trainer Mark Casse calls himself an 'old timer', but the fans love to see top fillies race against the top males.
Canadian champion and CTHS Ontario yearling sale graduate came from far back and won the $154,000 Van Clief Stakes at Colonial.
Champion Paramount Prince won his first stakes in two races with a nose victory in the $175,000 Seagram Cup (G3) on Aug. 1.
Plate winners Paramount Prince and Mansetti renew their rivalry, but have Prince of Wales winner Runaway Again to hold off.
Gary Barber's New York-bred gelding got away with a slow pace and Zulu Kingdom stayed close in the Grade 2 Kelso Stakes.
Ontario-bred Shifty, bred by Anderson Farms and owned by D.J. Stable, had an easy trip in the Grade 3 Royal North Stakes.
The inner turf contests feature Mark Casse's trio of trainees in the Royal North and Miss Vyvyanne looking to make it five in a row in the Highlander.
An Ontario-bred colt named Canada sold to Len and Jon Green's D.J. Stable for $400,000 in Ocala on Thursday.
The Mark Casse trainee faces five rivals in the $125,000 Queenston, an early season Plate prep which Casse has won on three occasions.
This year's second jewel of the Triple Crown does not have the Kentucky Derby winner in the field and will be run at Laurel.
Silent Tactic has the style to be a Kentucky Derby (G1) winner; he is owned by John Oxley, the breeder of one of the faves, Further Ado.
The Ontario-bred by Cairo Prince became the eighth graded stakes winner for owner Gary Barber at Keeneland.
There are three stepping-stone stakes races to the Kentucky Derby (G1) this weekend and Woodbine's leading trainer Mark Casse has two hopefuls.
My Boy Prince wins the $100,000 Turf Dash at Tampa Bay, Jokestar takes the $100,000 Stakes at Laurel; Luv Your Neighbor just misses.
