ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Thursday racing at Woodbine has a new later post time of 5:05 p.m. The high-quality feature, an open allowance over 6 1/2 furlongs on the main turf, goes as the sixth race and can probably be pared down to the classy veteran White Flag and the speedy Chuck Willis. White Flag has been a successful closing sprinter on turf since his formative years, during which he won two stakes in New York for trainer Christophe Clement. The 8-year-old changed trainers last year, going to Hall of Famer Roger Attfield. Attfield sent him out to win a conditioned allowance over this course and distance off a 13-month absence on Sept. 19. White Flag never fired over yielding turf in the Grade 2 Nearctic in October, after which he got the winter off at the Payson Park training center in Florida. He finished fourth after a wide trip in his April 17 season opener in the Thorncliffe Stakes here on the Tapeta, from which Arzak exited to capture the Grade 3 Jacques Cartier. Emma-Jayne Wilson rode White Flag in his last victory and has the mount Thursday. “He’s an old warrior and he comes to play every time,” Wilson said. “Roger had his eye on this spot, and you always wonder if it’s going to fill. It’s a good spot for him, and I’m looking forward to it. He’s in good order.” :: For the first time ever, our premium past performances are free! Get free Formulator now! Wilson said White Flag excelled over a course labeled good on Sept. 19. “That was off a long layoff and he ran just like an old pro,” Wilson recalled. “He dropped in, shifted gears, and I barely even had to ask him. He knew what he was doing.” Chuck Willis is 6 for 12 lifetime and is equally adept on turf and Tapeta. When returning from an eight-month layoff here April 24, he led throughout a five-furlong conditioned allowance on Tapeta, scoring by three lengths with a career-high 94 Beyer Speed Figure. Leading rider Kazushi Kimura will ride Chuck Willis again for the hot leading trainer Mark Casse. Casse also entered 2020 Canadian champion male 2-year-old Gretzky the Great, who has been campaigned sporadically and is something of an enigma. Gretzky the Great took the Greenwood Stakes off a layoff here last August before checking in fourth in the Toronto Cup Stakes on Sept. 12, after which he went to the sidelines again. In his March 2 season debut at Gulfstream, he was softened up in a speed duel when fourth in a five-furlong conditioned allowance, a race that has yet to yield a next-out winner. Rafael Hernandez has the mount on Gretzky the Great, who drew post 1 in the seven-horse field.