Tuesday’s 89th running of the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie looks like a showdown between Team Attard and Team Casse.

Trainer Kevin Attard has trainer Mark Casse outnumbered 4 to 2 in the middle leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, and he didn’t even enter King’s Plate winner Caitlinhergrtness, who is getting a little break. Attard runs Pierre and Jokestar, the fourth- and fifth-place finishers in the King’s Plate, along with Airosa and Bedard. All are competing on dirt for the first time in the 1 3/16-mile test for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds.

When Mischief River worked on turf for the first time at Del Mar on a recent Sunday morning, trainer James Glenn Jr. saw enough to change race plans for early September.

Instead of a start in Sunday’s Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity on dirt, Mischief River will run in the Grade 3 Del Mar Juvenile Turf at a mile on the same day. A half-mile turf workout in 49.20 seconds clinched the plan.

“He seemed pretty level and his gallop-out was really strong,” Glenn said. “Once he passed the wire, he didn’t want to pull up.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Trainer Bob Baffert does not win the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity every year, but he wins it most years.

Sunday at Del Mar, closing day of the summer meet, Baffert is likely to extend his record win total in the seven-furlong stakes. He entered three in the Del Mar Futurity, a race he has won the last three years and 17 times since 1995, when he ran third with Cavonnier, his first Futurity starter.

Prisoner has the look of a standout in Sunday’s $25,000 claiming feature over six furlongs at Emerald Downs.

At the age of 6, Prisoner can be described as an old class horse. Not only is he 11 for 24 in his career, but he has a bankroll of $342,437. The Justin Evans trainee was a winner at Saratoga as recently as last year and debuted in maiden special weight company with a win at Belmont Park in 2020 for trainer Todd Pletcher and Repole Stable.

The catalog for the Keeneland September yearling sale was released a bit more than a month before the sale begins its run on Monday, and the book has since been burnished by half-siblings to four Grade 1 winners as a result of racing updates. The catalog could garner even more luster as this weekend’s major races unfold, adding intrigue to some of the later books of the sale that runs over 12 sessions through Sept. 21.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Stormcast and Hurricane Clair, the top two finishers in the Bison City Stakes on Aug. 10, will meet again in the final leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara, the $250,000 Wonder Where Stakes on Sunday at Woodbine.

Stormcast will be favored in the 1 1/4-mile turf race with Patrick Husbands riding for trainer Mark Casse. She did not run in the nine-furlong Woodbine Oaks and was 6-1 in the 1 1/16-mile Bison City on the Tapeta. After being reluctantly loaded into the gate, she darted out to a clear lead and won for fun with a big 91 Beyer Speed Figure.

Style Points could be sitting on a breakthrough performance Saturday in the $250,000 Virginia Oaks at Colonial Downs.

She is looking for her first stakes win in the 1 1/8-mile turf race that is one of the highlights of the track’s closing-day card. There are a total of six turf stakes on offer, led by the Grade 3, $500,000 Virginia Derby.

Deterministic was a Grade 3 winner on dirt in March and will be looking to match the feat on turf Saturday when he starts as the probable favorite in the $500,000 Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs.

The 1 1/8-mile stakes anchors a 12-race card that offers six stakes worth a cumulative $1.3 million. First post is 1 p.m. Eastern.

Colonial closes its meet Saturday, and the pick six and pick fives, which both offer reduced takeouts, will have mandatory payouts, according to Frank Hopf, Colonial’s senior director of racing operations.

From once-started 2-year-olds in California to 6-year-old South African imports in Virginia, no stone is left unturned looking for Saturday stakes winners this week. Without further ado . . .

Del Mar Debutante

I’ve already tried once to beat 2-year-old filly Nooni. That came in the Sorrento, and while Vodka With a Twist briefly loomed in upper stretch, she failed to close the gap on the Bob Baffert-trained Noonie.