King's Plate pedigree profile: Paramount Prince

Paramount Prince
Gelding by Society’s Chairman – Platinum Steel, by Eddington
Bred in Ontario by Ericka Nadine Rusnak ($21,000 (CAN) Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society Ontario premier yearling purchase by Michael J. Langlois)

Canadian stalwart stallion Society’s Chairman has never sired the winner of a Canadian Triple Crown race. He’s likely to have a major chance this year, as Paramount Prince, never worse than third in five career starts, coasted by five lengths in the Plate Trial last Sunday at Woodbine to emerge among the major candidates for the King’s Plate.

Society’s Chairman, winner of the Grade 3 Appleton at 7 1/2 furlongs on turf and also multiple Grade 1-placed, is the sire of 75 career stakes winners. Chief among those is Grade 3 winner Caren, who won two legs of Canada’s Triple Tiara for fillies, the Bison City and Wonder Where Stakes, among her eight career stakes scores. She was Canada’s Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old filly in 2016.

Society’s Chairman also is the sire of graded stakes winner Code Warrior.

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Platinum Steel was a multi-time winner around two turns on a synthetic track at Presque Isle Downs. She was second in the Malvern Rose Stakes going 1 1/16 miles there. The mare is now the dam of three winners from four starters. The best among those, outside of recent stakes winner Platinum Prince, is Roman Steel, a six-time winner who was minor stakes-placed in Canada.

Platinum Steel is a half-sister to unbeaten Grade 1 winner Army Mule, a promising young stallion who is the sire of King’s Plate candidate Stanley House.

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