Chiefswood Stables’ homebred Kin’s Concerto , overwhelmed in her first three begins of 2024, carried out flawlessly when the stakes had been highest July 20 at Woodbine, rallying to take the CA$503,000 Woodbine Oaks for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies.
Monitoring the tempo inside in fourth behind fractions of :23.78, :47.96, and 1:12.16 within the 1 1/8-mile race on Tapeta, Kin’s Concerto was angled outdoors for the stretch run and outpunched favored Caitlinhergrtness by a neck. The latter was 1 1/4 lengths forward of present finisher Hurricane Clair .
“I wound up proper on the rail. Good journey,” jockey Sofia Vives mentioned in a tv interview on horseback shortly after the race. “Within the flip, I obtained to get into the 2 path and adopted the horse that I believed was gonna be a tricky one. It opened up, all of the holes, and we shot proper by way of.”
The Josie Carroll trainee, who returned $11.50 for a $2 win wager, was clocked in 1:51.18. A daughter of Mendelssohn , she is now 2-2-1 in 5 begins.
Prime-performing fillies from the Woodbine Oaks typically race towards males within the CA$1 million King’s Plate Stakes, the beginning of the Canadian Triple Crown for 3-year-olds bred within the nation. This 12 months’s King’s Plate is Aug. 17.
When requested if she would run within the Plate in a winner’s circle interview, Robert Landry, basic supervisor of Chiefswood Stables, mentioned, “Most likely not,” although he mentioned the race can be thought of.
“We will do what’s proper by the filly, so we’ll let her dictate what we do,” he added.
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My Boy Prince Seeks a King’s Prize After Plate Trial WIN
In one other necessary King’s Plate prep Saturday, 1-5 favourite My Boy Prince gave his mutuel backers a scare within the CA$150,000 Plate Trial Stakes by hopping initially after which coming beneath a drive on the second flip to advance from a stalking place, however he in the end prevailed by 1 1/4 lengths. The Mark Casse trainee got here from simply off the tempo to outrun rallying 26-1 longshot Rafaroo and 15-1 pacesetter Pleasant Ghost . The Gary Barber-owned son of Cairo Prince raced 1 1/8 miles on Tapeta in 1:51.12 and returned $2.50 to win.
My Boy Prince captures the Plate Trial Stakes
My Boy Prince possible heads to the King’s Plate as the favourite. The five-time stakes winner is 6-for-10 and has twice been grade 1-placed, together with when third within the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T) final fall at Santa Anita Park. He sometimes races on or close to the lead.
“I did not thoughts him sitting off the tempo at the moment simply because the King’s Plate goes to be loads of horses, and something might occur,” jockey Sahin Civaci mentioned.
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Solo Album, Cruden Bay Seize Graded Stakes
Saturday’s card at Woodbine additionally included the CA$138,240 Trillium Stakes (G3) at 1 1/16 miles for fillies and mares on Tapeta and the CA$200,200 Connaught Cup Stakes (G2T) at seven furlongs on turf.
Casse went 1-2 within the Trillium when pacesetting Solo Album had simply sufficient left beneath Civaci to outlast a hard-charging Without end Dixie . The Kevin Attard-trained Fashionably Fab ran an in depth third in what was a bid for a sixth consecutive stakes victory.
A 4-year-old daughter of Curlin , Solo Album is owned by Barber, Eclipse Thoroughbred Companions, and Steven Rocco. She raced 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.90 and returned $6.60 to win as a slight favourite.
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Within the Connaught Cup, the lone grass stakes race of the cardboard, Michael Lay’s Cruden Bay ran down Conflict Bomber beneath Vives. The Donald MacRae-trained 6-year-old gelding by Large Display notched his first stakes win in his second attempt in stakes firm, coming in his twenty second profession begin. He raced seven furlongs on “good” turf in 1:21.27 and paid $10.50 to win.
Ironstone ran third.
