Soon after his longshot and jaw-dropping win in the Queen’s Plate, MIGHTY HEART apparently was rarin’ to go again. The mighty little bay by Dramedy will go postward as the big favourite in the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown at Fort Erie on Tuesday – the Prince of Wales Stakes.
Both owner Marry Cordes and trainer Josie Carroll were fairly adamant that the one-eyed colt, who ran out of his skin in his wire-to-wire Plate romp, would not come back in 3 weeks to try the Wales.
But according to Cordes, the colt has been ‘climbing the walls’ since the Plate, so it’s go time.
MIGHTY HEART was installed the 7 to 5 favourite in a field of 9 drawn Friday morning. He will start from post 2 with longshot Truebelieve to his inside and 8 to 1 shot Dotted Line to his outside.
RED MERCURY, a maiden, was supplemented at a cost of $12,500.
$400,000 PRINCE OF WALES STAKES – 1 3/16 miles, dirt, Tuesday Sept. 29
1 TRUEBELIEVE Centennial Farm (Niagara) Cole Bennett Keveh Nicholls 30-1 – 9th Plate, 77, 61, 77
2 MIGHTY HEART Lawrence Cordes Josie Carroll Dasuke Fukumoto 7-5 – Queen’s Plate 99, 80, 74
3 DOTTED LINE Norseman Racing Sid Attard Justin Stein 8-1 7th Plate – 80, 80, 83
4 RED MERCURY MPB Stable P LePiane Simon Husbands 30-1 – maiden, last 3 Beyers 54, 54, 63
5 ENCHANT ME York Tech Stable Santino DiPaola Luis Contreras 20-1 – maiden, 61 61 61
6 BOLD VICTORY John Oxley and Gary Barber Mark Casse Patrick Husbands 12-1, 63, 66 70
7 TECUSMEH’S WAR Ilium Stable Catherine Day Phillips Emma-Jayne Wilson 4-1 4th Plate 84, 81, 67
8 MUSKOKA GIANT Conrad Farms Mark Casse Kazushi Kimura 12-1 winner on turf, 78, 63, 63
9 CLAYTON Donato Lanni and Daniel Plouffe Kevin Attard Rafael Hernandez 5-2 – 3rd Plate, 84, 89, 88
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