With a race under his belt, Frosted Over makes short work of Dominion Day Stakes
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Last year’s Canadian champion male 3-year-old Frosted Over took control on the far turn and never looked back in a decisive score in Friday’s Grade 3, $156,600 Dominion Day Stakes at Woodbine.
Two-time Canadian Horse of the Year Mighty Heart led the way through moderate fractions in the nine-furlong event, with Frosted Over tracking him all the way under Kazushi Kimura.
Frosted Over assumed command from Mighty Heart at the quarter pole before drawing off for a 4 3/4-length triumph, in a final time of 1:49.46.
Favored Artie’s Storm was stalled in traffic before closing along the rail to edge out Mighty Heart for second. Special Forces, War Bomber, Skywire, and Talbeyah completed the order of finish. Primo Touch and Avoman were scratched.
Frosted Over had finished second to Artie’s Storm when they both came off a layoff in the Grade 2 Eclipse here May 29. Trainer Mark Casse felt that Frosted Over might have needed that race heading into it, and the handsome son of Frosted was fitter for the Dominion Day.
“Today, when I got the outside, I’m not gonna do anything special,” Kimura said. “Just be able to stay close, easily, just beside Mighty Heart. I dropped my hands and asked him from the three-eighths, and he just nailed it.”
Frosted Over ($8.20) earned $90,000 for owner Gary Barber in his second stakes victory. He won the Grade 3 Ontario Derby in October before ending up second to Sir Winston in the Grade 3 Valedictory Dec. 5.