My Boy Prince has easy time with Cup and Saucer Stakes

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - My Boy Prince made short work of his eight rivals in Saturday’s $250,500 Cup and Saucer Stakes at Woodbine, giving trainer Mark Casse his seventh win in the about 1 1/16-mile turf event for Canadian-bred 2-year-olds.

After breaking awkwardly, Sahin Civaci let My Boy Prince roll to the lead from the outset and they set slow fractions over a course labeled as good. Arashi took up the chase in second and then loomed into contention on the turn, along with a three-wide War Painter.

My Boy Prince had plenty left for the drive and he drew off under a hand ride to score by 4 1/4 lengths, in a time of 1:43.30. Arashi finished a clear second and King Rosso wound up third.

“He had easy fractions up front,” Civaci said. “I was comfortable. I held him for a pretty long while and no one was coming up. When I asked him, he just kicked on really nicely like a good horse.”

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Civaci said there were a few anxious moments at the break.

“He was standing awkward in the gate,” Civaci explained. “When he got out there, he kind of stumbled momentarily, and then he picked himself up.”

My Boy Prince ($2.40) earned $150,000 for owner Gary Barber, who bought the son of Cairo Prince for $115,000 as the sale topper at the 2022 Canadian Premier yearling sale.

*** Millie Girl ($10.70) notched her first stakes under Rafael Hernandez in Saturday’s Grade 3 Ontario Matron for fillies and mares.

Millie Girl closed stoutly from near the rear of a 10-horse field to nail pacesetter Angelou on the wire, winning by a head in a time of 1:41.96. Il Malocchio finished third and the favored shipper Mouffy wound up fourth.

A daughter of Hard Spun, Millie Girl banked $108,000 of the $172,600 purse for the partnership of Kingfield Racing Stable, Braconcrest Inc. and Apricot Valley Thoroughbreds.

“She’s run very hard, and we’ve always believed in her so much,” winning trainer Catherine Day Phillips said. “She deserves to be a stakes winner and is a graded stakes winner now. I’m very happy for her,”

*** Longshots Spun Glass and Awesome Treat ran one-two after they both rallied stoutly from well back in Saturday’s Grade 3 Ontario Fashion for fillies and mares.

Maryland shipper Spun Glass ($57.20) won by a half-length in a time of 1:08.64 for the six furlongs. Awesome Treat, at 38-1, finished second over Loyalty, who had prevailed in a front-end battle with Hard Edge. Favored Our Flash Drive was a non-threatening seventh.

Luis Contreras rode Spun Glass for trainer Mike Trombetta, who was represented by sub-trainer Darren Glennon.

“She broke really good, so I just let her sit wherever she was comfortable,” Contreras said. “Darren told me she only has a three-sixteenths of a mile kick at the end. He told me to pick a garden spot. I was in a garden spot and I waited for the three-sixteenths to make a run.”

Another daughter of superb synthetic sire Hard Spun, Spun Glass collected $90,000 of the $150,800 purse for owner R. Larry Johnson.

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