US-based Tom's Magic is looking good in workouts for the King's Plate; trainer Mark Casse will be at Saratoga next week.
Mark Casse
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.
Five Mark Casse-trained fillies who have had success leading all the way in their races will tackle seven rivals and nine furlongs.
She's already worth a lot as half-sister to two Grade 1 winners, but No Time could add to her value with a first stakes win in the Oaks.
The 70th Woodbine Oaks for three-year-old Canadian-bred fillies and the Plate Trial, the last local King's Plate prep, go Sunday.
Mark Casse, who has won six editions of the $125,000 Victoria, will send out trainees Casson, Jupiter, and Rude Procedure on Saturday.
Under a heady ride from Rafael Hernandez, Creed's Gold led all the way to win the Grade 3 Hendrie Stakes at Woodbine on July 5.
Tracy Farmer's horses trained by Mark Casse won three races on June 22 and Casse won two others on a very hot day.
