VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Under a confident ride by Quincy Welch, True Metropolitan cruised to a 3 3/4-length win over Spaghetti Mouse in the Grade 3, $150,913 B.C. Premiers at Hastings Sunday.
True Metropolitan paid $5 as the second choice behind Spaghetti Mouse. He posted a final time of 2:17.03 over a sloppy track.
Billed as a match race between True Metropolitan and Spaghetti Mouse, the 1 3/8-miles Premiers was exactly that until the top of the stretch, when True Metropolitan drew away from Spaghetti Mouse.