ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Canadian champion Mr Havercamp had been pointing toward the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile on Sept. 14, a race he finished second in last year, but was ultimately not entered by trainer Catherine Day Phillips and owner-breeders Sean and Dorothy Fitzhenry. Day Phillips said she has not made any firm plans about Mr Havercamp’s next start, but added he would be pointed toward a winter campaign. Following a win at Saratoga in the Grade 3 Forbidden Apple Stakes in July, Mr Havercamp remained at Woodbine for the Grade 3 Seagram Cup Stakes on Tapeta on Aug. 10, in what would have been his final prep for the Woodbine Mile. Mr Havercamp ran fourth in the Seagram Cup, and Day Phillips said the connections felt he wasn’t training up to his usual standard ahead of the Woodbine Mile. “He didn’t run his race in the Seagram Cup,” she said. “We weren’t 100 percent happy with his breezes going into the Mile, so we’ve decided to back off and focus on a winter campaign.” The win in the Forbidden Apple and his fourth-place finish in the Seagram Cup have been the only two starts Mr Havercamp has made this season. He returned from a seven-month layoff to win the Forbidden Apple following a 2018 campaign that saw him win a pair of graded stakes and finish second to Oscar Performance in the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile. His 2018 campaign earned him a pair of Sovereign Awards for champion older male and champion turf male.