The 40th Breeders’ Cup World Championships began with Future Stars Friday and Gary Barber’s Ontario-bred two-year-old colt MY BOY PRINCE did his hometown proud with a strong effort when third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) at Santa Anita.

The dark grey colt, bred by Murray Smith, was sent hard to the lead by jockey Joel Rosario and the pair locked up with Air Recruit through fast fractions of 22.26 and 46.72 early in the one mile turf race.

My Boy Prince, trained by Mark Casse, was still fighting on into the stretch as the closers came calling, including favoured UNQUESTIONABLE for Europe. The latter worked his way out of traffic to win the $1 million race and in the last strides, My Boy Prince was caught for second by another Euro, Mountain Bear. Aidan O’Brien trained the top two finishers.

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