He has the third-best Beyer Speed Figure (from Daily Racing Form) of all two-year-olds in North America this year and on October 14, MY BOY PRINCE will try to win one of Canada’s oldest restricted stakes races.
The steel-grey son of Cairo Prince, owned by Gary Barber and bred by Murray Smith, will be odds-on for the 86th Cup & Saucer Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on turf at Woodbine Saturday. The colt, who posted a 95 Beyer when he won the Simcoe Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs on Tapeta in August, comes off a valiant effort in the Grade 1 Summer Stakes after he had to return to the walking ring pre-race and have a shoe repaired.
Sahin Civaci, who rode My Boy Prince in his Simcoe win, is back to ride the Mark Casse trainee. The colt will also be back on Lasix after he had to race without the diuretic in the ‘Win and You’re In’ Summer Stakes.
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Top 2yo Beyers 2023
Prince of Monaco DMR 13 Aug 6F – 103
Locked SAR 01 Sep 1M – 96
Booth KEE 07 Oct 6F – 95
Fierceness SAR 25 Aug 6F – 95
My Boy Prince WO 27 Aug 6 1/2F – 95
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My Boy Prince was the sales topper at the 2022 CTHS yearling sale at $115,000, is on the Daily Racing Form‘s list of contenders for the November 3 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita but he will stay at home instead.
Other than the forecast of quite a bit of rain Friday evening and through Saturday, My Boy Prince is a standout in the field of 10 which has four maidens in the entries.
The filly WAR PAINTER (Danish Dynaformer), who won the restricted Victorian Queen Stakes on Sept. 24 for Canuck Racing Club and trainer Kevin Attard is a threat with her improving form. Bull Page stakes winner ZIPPY GIZMO (Amis Gizmo) is also trained by Attard.
Attard also has the well regarded maiden KING ROSSO in the race for Al and Bill Ulwelling.
The Cup & Saucer was first run at Long Branch racetrack and was named Mrs. Orpen’s Cup and Saucer, named for Isabella Orpen, wife of racetrack proprietor Abe Orpen.
The last horse to win the Cup & Saucer and then win the following year’s Queen’s Plate was L’Enjoleur in 1974.
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