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Paramount Prince Shoots For Second Leg Of Canadian Triple Crown

On paper, it looks like 8-5 morning line favorite Paramount Prince (Society's Chairman) is the horse to beat in Tuesday's $400,000 Prince of Wales S. at Fort Erie, the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown. He's perfect around two turns and is coming off a front-running victory in the first leg of the series, the King's Plate. And once again, there doesn't appear to be another horse in the field who can keep this front-runner honest early.

But this race always comes with a handicapping conundrum. How do you pick the winner in a dirt race when not one of the 11 starters has ever won a race over that surface? Most have done their running at Woodbine over the turf courses or the synthetic Tapeta track.

“That's what makes the Canadian Triple Crown so unique,” said Paramount Prince's trainer, Mark Casse. “The first race is on Tapeta, the second is on the dirt and they finish up on the grass in the Breeders' Stakes. We had him all winter at our training center in Ocala and he trained extremely well over the dirt there. I'd be kind of shocked if he didn't handle the dirt. But you never know.”

According to the figures provided by Thoro-Graph, the offspring of Society's Chairman win 16% on the time on dirt and just 13% of the time on synthetic.

Casse has won the Queen's Plate/King's Plate three times, the Prince of Wales four times and the Breeders' Stakes twice. But he has yet to sweep a Canadian Triple Crown, something no horse has done since Wando (Langfuhr) in 2003. The series took a bit of a hit the last two years when the winners of the Queen's Plate skipped the Prince Of Wales. But it looks like the Prince of Wales has rebounded. The 12-horse field is the biggest in 21 years and most of the top Canadian-bred 3-year-old males will be in the race.

Looking to win the Prince of Wales for the fifth time, Casse has every reason to be confident. Paramount Prince, who will be ridden by Patrick Husbands, looks like an improving horse who flourished once sent around two turns. After three straight losses sprinting, he wired the field in the Plate Trial before doing the same in the King's Plate.

“Early on I was very disappointed in him,” Casse said. “This winter I kept saying this is a good horse. The first time I ran him I told (owner) Gary (Barber) that I didn't think he'd get beat. But he disappointed me. He trained great coming into his second race and didn't win either. I think he wants to you to grab him and get into a rhythm. He doesn't do that sprinting.”

Casse has also entered Stayhonor Goodside (Honor Code), who is 10-1 in the morning line and was kept out of the King's Plate.

“I kind of pointed that horse to this race because I thought he has a good dirt pedigree,” Casse said. “But we're all guessing.”

Trainer Michael DePaulo will send out a pair in 4-1 second choice Stanley House (Army Mule) and Cook Kiss (Kantharos). Cook Kiss is one of only two horses in the field that has started on the dirt. He finished second in a dirt allowance in July at Gulfstream. Stanley House was third in the King's Plate, beaten three lengths, and never threatened the winner. Both horses will wear blinkers for the first time.

“We're hoping somebody goes after Paramount Prince at some point. But you never know,” DePaulo said. “Patrick is a cagey rider and might not go to the lead. The Society's Chairmans in general haven't been real big dirt horses that I've seen. But you never know. I put the blinkers on Stanley because he's been a little further than I'd like in most of his races. The other horse, Cook Kiss, he sometimes looks like he's goofing around. I thought blinkers might help. You look at his Ragozin numbers and they're way better than his Beyer numbers because he's always so wide. He ran a mile and three eighths in the Plate.”

Kaukokaipuu (Mr Speaker) went off at 8-1 in the King's Plate only to lose by 37 1/4 lengths. Trainer Ted Holder is willing to try again.

“We haven't missed a beat,” Holder said. “We unfortunately got outdistanced so we ended up on the Alcohol and Gaming Commission's outdistanced vet's list. So, I worked with him, a very slow maintenance work for him to get him off the list. We went over him with the vets to make sure everything was in order and we got the green light, so we are proceeding.”

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Mark Casse Displays Perfect Record With Juveniles So Far in 2022

That Mark Casse won a pair of 2-year-old maiden races Sunday at Woodbine should not have come as a surprise. The trainer hasn't just been hot when it comes to his juvenile runners, he's been perfect. Casse has sent out eight 2-year-olds so far this year and all eight have won.

Six were first-time starters and two others won in their second career starts. He leads all trainers in the category of 2-year-old winners on the year. Steve Asmussen is next with six.

How has Casse done it?

“For one thing, we have a bunch of good 2-year-olds,” he said. “That has not ever been my agenda, to win first time out. All those winners have come off our training center in Ocala and I'm proud of that. That's where I spend a lot of my time. We crank them up at the farm a little more. Those horses have been breezing halves and five-eighths going out of the gate. Our training center is almost like a racetrack, so it doesn't take us long to get them ready.”

Casse added that when it comes to his current crop of 2-year-olds, he was more hands on when they were purchased at sales compared to how he had been in prior years when he relied heavily on agents to send him horses.

“I kind of stepped away for a while and had stopped buying,” he said. “I was going more by the agents. We still train a lot of horses that agents bought. But with this crop, especially, my wife, Tina and I, were pretty involved with it. Nothing was bought without us approving them. Len Green (owner of DJ Stable) said that if you are going to ask a guy to cook it helps if he gets to buy the ingredients.”

It's also notable that Casse didn't exactly break the bank when purchasing the eight. The highest price paid for any among the group was $450,000 and two sold for less than $100,000.

A look at Casse's elite eight:

Adora (Into Mischief): Owned by Tracy Farmer, she broke her maiden on May 14 at Woodbine, winning by 4 3/4 lengths. She cost $450,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale. She is being pointed for the GIII Schuylerville S. on July 14 at Saratoga.

“With Adora, we paid $450,000, more than you'd normally see us pay,” Casse said. “But she has built-in value. A filly like her, if she goes on and is successful she's worth millions of dollars. If you see us paying that kind of money there is usually some residual there.”

Boppy O (Bolt d'Oro): Owned by John C. Oxley and Breeze Easy, LLC, he broke his maiden on May 20 at Gulfstream. He cost $190,000 at Keeneland September and is a half-brother to the Casse-trained Pappacap (Gun Runner), the runner-up in last year's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile.

Stayhonor Goodside (Honor Code): Named by TDN Writers' Room superfan Skip Anderson, who submitted the winning entry in a TDN name the foal contest. He won a May 21 maiden at Woodbine by 5 1/2 lengths and is being pointed to the July 4 GIII Bashford Manor S. at Churchill Downs. Sold for $85,000 at Keeneland September.

Me and My Shadow (Violence): The filly won a May 28 maiden at Woodbine and is owned by DJ Stable. Cost $185,000 at Keeneland September. Is also being pointed for the GIII Schuylerville.

Ninetyfour Expos (Outwork): After running third in his debut on May 1, won a May 29 maiden at Woodbine by 8 1/4 lengths. Sold for $80,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Select Yearling Sale.

Wonder Wheel (Into Mischief): The filly is owned by DJ Stable and cost $275,000 at Keeneland September. She broke her maiden by 2 1/4 lengths when debuting June 3 at Churchill Downs.

“I had been telling the Greens for two, three months that she was something special,” Casse said.

Wonder Wheel is being pointed for the July 4 Debutante S. at Churchill.

Battle Strike (Connect): The Ontario-bred colt won a May 12 maiden at Woodbine by 6 1/4 lengths in his debut. Owned by Tracy Farmer, he cost $130,000 at Keeneland September. He will go next in the July 17 Victoria S. at Woodbine.

Cahira's Blessing (Maclean's Music): Owned by Epona Thoroughbreds, Inc, the filly finished third in her debut and then came back to win a June 12 maiden at Woodbine by 2 1/2 lengths. She will run next in the July 16 My Dear S. at Woodbine.

Casse will have one juvenile starter this weekend in Saturday's first at Gulfstream, and said he expects to unveil a number of other top prospects during the weeks ahead. He said he has about 55 2-year-olds in training.

“We just have a lot of good 2-year-olds this year,” he said. “I think if people took a look at our record with 2-year-olds over the years they'd be surprised by how well we've done. I have a really good crew in Ocala. Mitch Downs has worked for me for 40 years and I have seven or eight people who have worked for me for 30-plus years. I like to think that we are a well-oiled machine.”

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Honor Code Juvenile Romps at Woodbine

2nd-Woodbine, C$107,630, Msw, 5-21, 2yo, 4 1/2f (AWT), :51.58, ft, 5 1/2 lengths.
STAYHONOR GOODSIDE (c, 2, Honor Code–Nicki Knew {SW, $386,114}, by Tethra) was favored at 6-5 in this debut and made it look like a gift with a dominant debut score at Woodbine Saturday. Away alertly, the $85,000 KEESEP buy contested the early pace and slammed the door on his rivals in the lane to win for fun by 5 1/2 lengths over Captive Silence (Silent Name {Jpn}). The winner is a half to Imperial Dream (Stormy Atlantic), SW, $156,137 and is the first winner for his dam since that one, Nicki Knew only producing two surviving foals in the eight years between them. There was no report in 2021 but Stayhonor Goodside has a 2022 half-sister by Caravaggio. This is the family of millionaire and MG1SW Hawk Wing (Woodman), GSW turned group-stakes producer Race for the Stars (Fusaichi Pegasus), and Canadian Horse of the Year & Champion grass horse Thornfield (Sky Classic). The colt's name came about by way of a contest on the TDN Writers' Room podcast, when D.J. Stable General Manager Jon Green challenged listeners to come up with a clever name based on the colt's breeding as part of a promotion sponsored by Lane's End Farm. The winning entry was submitted by Skip Anderson, a champion Hampshire sheep breeder from North Dakota. Sales history: $85,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $48,142. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O-D. J. Stable LLC; B-Stan Dodson (ON); T-Mark E. Casse.

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