ETOBIOKE, Ontario – Paramount Prince will try to win the $150,000 Seagram Cup for the second year in a row Saturday at Woodbine against another 2024 Canadian champion, the probable favorite Dresden Row. Trained by Mark Casse, Paramount Prince has an impressive résumé. He led all the way in the 2023 King’s Plate, the same year he was voted Canadian champion male 3-year-old. Last year, he won the Sovereign Award for champion older male on the main track. Normally a front-runner, Paramount Prince finished third after a stalking trip when returning from a seven-month layoff in a conditioned allowance/optional claimer on the inner turf June 21, a race he may have needed. Sahin Civaci will ride him for the first time in the 1 1/16-mile Seagram Cup. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Dresden Row was the champion male 3-year-old in 2024, a campaign that was highlighted by Grade 3 stakes scores in the Durham Cup and Ontario Derby. Trainer Lorne Richards sent him out to finish third behind champions Patches O’Houlihan and My Boy Prince in his June 28 season opener in the Grade 2 Highlander, a six-furlong turf sprint. “He was running strong at the end,” Richards said. “The turf was listed as good. I don’t think he cares for turf that has that type of give to it and I don’t think the distance is what he prefers. It was a big ask, but I thought he ran a good one.” Among the six others in the Grade 3 fixture are the Casse trainees Essex Serpent and Swift Delivery. Niagara Stakes Stanley House and Lac Macaza were cross-entered in the Seagram and the $100,000 Niagara. They are more likely to contest the Niagara since they ran one-two in last year’s renewal of the 1 1/4-mile main turf event. If there was ever a horse who deserved to win a stakes, but hasn’t, it’s Stanley House. He received a career high 96 Beyer Speed Figure last out when second in the Grade 3 Dominion Day going 1 1/8 miles on the Tapeta, but trainer Mike DePaulo prefers the Niagara distance for him over the 1 1/16-mile Seagram. “I just think going longer than a mile and a sixteenth is better for him,” DePaulo said. “I like the [wide] turn on the big course.” Lac Macaza’s lone stakes win came in the 2024 Niagara. He was claimed for $50,000 when second to Swift Delivery in his June 22 season opener by trainer Marty Drexler, who’s also running the rejuvenated Frosted Over, the champion male 3-year-old of 2021. Nine others were entered, including Ron’s Gizmo, who won back-to-back conditioned allowance/optional claimers on different surfaces in his two appearances at the meet. Sweet Briar Too Stakes Casse sends out four of the 11 fillies and mares in the $125,000 Sweet Biar Too Stakes – Dancing Duchess, Run for the Hills, Ready to Jam, and Ticker Tape Home. The wide open six-furlong turf sprint also lured a host of shippers, including Dontlookbackatall, Loon Cry, Nice as Pie, and Oujda. A Group 3 winner in her last outing in France in October, Oujda is adding Lasix for her first start for trainer William Walden after working regularly over the past month at Saratoga. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.