Brooklynsway, Quidi Vidi will meet again in Mazarine

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Muskoka Stakes winner Brooklynsway and runner-up Quidi Vidi appear poised for a rematch in Sunday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Mazarine Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Woodbine.

Trainer John Ross said he was pleased with Brooklynsway’s 1 1/4-length victory in the Muskoka on Aug. 27, when she sat behind horses before driving clear in the stretch.

“It was a great effort,” he said. “[Emma-Jayne Wilson] had her buried in behind horses, which is nice for a 2-year-old to sit in behind horses. When an opening came, she just darted right through it with no hesitation. That was a really nice thing to see with a young filly like that.”

Ross said he has been high on Brooklynsway all along.

“I could have run her in a maiden race, and maybe I should have,” he said. “But you know what? She had been working so well and so easy.”

Quidi Vidi, meanwhile, couldn’t match the late rally of Brooklynsway in the final strides of the Muskoka.

“She was a little closer than we would want her to be in the next race, but she put away the favorite, and I don’t know if she saw the horse coming up the rail,” said trainer Lorna Perkins.

Quidi Vidi won going seven furlongs earlier this year, and Perkins said her filly should appreciate the added distance in the Mazarine. Quidi Vidi put in her final work for the Mazarine on Sunday, breezing five furlongs in 1:03 on the main track.

“We wanted to have an easy work for her because we’ve been pushing her going three-quarters the last two works,” Perkins said. “The rider went a little slow from the pole, but she finished up nicely.”