The Niagara Overnight Stakes is the Saturday feature, while the three-year-old fillies settle up the Triple Tiara on Sunday.
Triple Tiara
The Grade 2 Canadian Stakes, sans Moira, and the Bison City Stakes, with Oaks winner Kin's Concerto, headline Woodbine Saturday.
Wickenheiser is made for the race as her full sister Season Ticket won it in 2015; field of eight has two maidens in the field.
The second leg of the Triple Tiara is in the books as Woodbine heads into King's Plate week; news and notes from the past week.
With no Moira, Sean and Dorothy Fitzhenry's homebred filly has bested the locals in the final two legs of the Triple Tiara.
The daughter of Hard Spun edged front-runner Strega in the final yards; War Bomber steals the show in the Seagram Stakes at 18-to-1.
Raj Maharajh's chestnut 3-year-old filly added to her Woodbine Oaks win with a romp in the third leg of the Triple Tiara.
Munnyfor Ro, Il Malocchio are only turf winners in nine-horse field tackling 10 furlongs on the E. P. Taylor course.
The lure of a $500,000 purse for a Canadian-bred 3-year-old filly, plus a modest crop, may ensure a big field.
The champion race filly won the Triple Tiara for Eugene Melnyk and Mark Casse and went on to be a top broodmare.
Sam-Son Farm’s filly Desert Ride closed out the Triple Tiara by taking the $225,000 Wonder Where Stakes on Saturday at Woodbine Racetrack.
Desert Ride circled the field to win the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks, the first leg of the Triple Tiara series, on Saturday at Woodbine.
