Richard and Nancy Kaster’s U S Marshal prevailed with a prominent trip, engineered by jockey David Moran, in Sunday’s $102,800 Wando Stakes, at Woodbine.
Trained by Ian Black, the Badge of Silver bay arrived at the 1 1/16-miles ‘Poly’ event for three-year-olds from a productive winter campaign at Gulfstream Park that included a solid second-place effort in a grassy allowance route.
Decision Day, last year’s Coronation Futurity champ, set the pace under Jesse Campbell in a compact five-horse field marking off splits of :25.03, :49.99 and 1:14.87, with U S Marshal never more than a length off his flank.