My Boy Prince, fresh off a runner-up performance in the Jaipur Stakes (G1T) earlier this month at Saratoga Race Course, returns to familiar turf June 28 at Woodbine to race six furlongs in the CA$200,000 Highlander Stakes (G2T).
The multiple stakes-winning 4-year-old son of Cairo Prince , trained by Mark Casse for owner Gary Barber, has experience on both the Woodbine synthetic main track and turf, though he has yet to run in his native Canada this year. In May, My Boy Prince started 2025 with a hard-fought win in the Elusive Quality Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Another Highlander contender, Canada's 2024 Horse of the Year Patches O'Houlihan, won the May 4 Thorncliffe Stakes on synthetic before being scratched from the May 31 Jacques Cartier Stakes (G3), which would've been the Reload gelding's second start of the year.
Patches O'Houlihan was running a high temperature the morning before the race; trainer Bob Tiller suggested to owner and breeder Frank Di Giulio Jr. that the horse was too sick to race.
"Regardless of the disappointment, doing right by the horse is all that matters," Di Giulio said. "He's okay now, and that is the main thing."
Six others are entered against My Boy Prince and Patches O'Houlihan, though one of those, the Kentucky-bred filly Ms. Tart, is cross-entered in the CA$175,000 Nassau Stakes (G2T), a mile race on turf restricted to fillies and mares.
The Highlander and Nassau are among five stakes on the Saturday program.
Woodbine, Saturday, June 28, 2025, Race 8Entries: bet365 Highlander S. (G2T)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L 1 1My Boy Prince (ON) Sahin Civaci 120 Mark E. Casse 5/2 2 2Playmea Tune (ON) Rafael Manuel Hernandez 120 Josie Carroll 9/2 3 3Niagara Skyline (ON) Dylan Davis 118 John Charalambous 20/1 4 4Its Time to Shine (ON) Jose Luis Campos 120 John A. Ross 20/1 5 5Patches O'Houlihan (ON) Sofia Vives 124 Robert P. Tiller 6/5 6 6Ms. Tart (KY) Huber Villa-Gomez 117 Kevin Rice 20/1 7 7Old Chestnut (FL) Eswan Flores 122 Martin Drexler 15/1 8 8Dresden Row (KY) Ryan Munger 122 Lorne Richards 6/1
Caitlinhergrtness Brings Hot Hand into Nassau
2024 King's Plate Stakes winner and Ontario-bred Caitlinhergrtness headlines the Nassau. The Sovereign Award-winning 3-year-old filly of last year, who showed in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (G1T) at Keeneland in the fall, captured the May 31 Belle Mahone Stakes (G3) by five lengths at Woodbine to kick off her 4-year-old campaign.
Kevin Attard trains the WinStar Farm-owned daughter of Omaha Beach , who is favored at 2-1 odds on the morning line over Resolute Racing's United States shipper Sweet Rebecca, trained by Chad Brown, at 3-1.
Ms. Tart is projected as a 15-1 shot if she starts in the 12-horse Nassau. She is 20-1 on the morning line for the Highlander.
Entries: Nassau S. (G2T)
Woodbine, Saturday, June 28, 2025, Race 10
- Grade IIT
- 1m
- Turf
- $175,000
- 4 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
- 6:11 PM (local)
| PP | Horse | Jockey | Wgt | Trainer | M/L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1Blueberry Fields (ON) | Daisuke Fukumoto | 118 | Brandon Evan Greer | 20/1 |
| 2 | 2Crevalle d'Oro (KY) | Patrick Husbands | 118 | Mark E. Casse | 15/1 |
| 3 | 3Ready for Shirl (KY) | Emma-Jayne Wilson | 118 | Roger L. Attfield | 15/1 |
| 4 | 4Caitlinhergrtness (ON) | Rafael Manuel Hernandez | 122 | Kevin Attard | 2/1 |
| 5 | 5Ready to Jam (KY) | Sahin Civaci | 118 | Mark E. Casse | 20/1 |
| 6 | 6Metaphysical (KY) | Ryan Munger | 118 | Tony Michael Gattellaro | 20/1 |
| 7 | 7Ms. Tart (KY) | Huber Villa-Gomez | 120 | Kevin Rice | 15/1 |
| 8 | 8Ocean Club (KY) | Sofia Vives | 122 | Thomas F. Proctor | 12/1 |
| 9 | 9Mixologist (KY) | Pietro Moran | 118 | Josie Carroll | 12/1 |
| 10 | 10Sweet Rebecca (KY) | Dylan Davis | 120 | Chad C. Brown | 3/1 |
| 11 | 11Mission of Joy (ON) | Eswan Flores | 118 | H. Graham Motion | 8/1 |
| 12 | 12Austere (KY) | Declan Cannon | 118 | Brendan P. Walsh | 6/1 |
Marine Stakes
As race 5 on the card, the first of the day's stakes is the CA$150,000 Marine Stakes (G3) for 3-year-olds, featuring Church and State, who has run strongly in his young career, winning three of four starts. Most recently, the gray and/or roan gelding legged out a victory in the May 18 King Corrie Stakes.
Scorching, an Ontario-bred colt and a leading early prospect for this summer's King's Plate, makes his 2025 debut. He won twice in three starts last year, all of which were at Woodbine.
Third choice on the morning line in the 1 1/16-mile synthetic race is Pin Oak Stud's Megalodon, who has finished first or second in three of four starts this year, with the blemish being an 11th-place finish in the American Turf Stakes (G1T) at Churchill Downs.
Woodbine, Saturday, June 28, 2025, Race 5Entries: HPIbet Marine S. (G3)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L 1 1War Signal (ON) Sofia Vives 115 Mark E. Casse 10/1 2 2Church and State (KY) Emma-Jayne Wilson 120 Dale A. Desruisseaux 5/2 3 3Scorching (ON) Dylan Davis 122 John Charalambous 2/1 4 4Sedburys Ghost (ON) Ryan Munger 118 Barbara J. Minshall 12/1 5 5Mansetti (ON) Pietro Moran 118 Kevin Attard 6/1 6 6Megalodon (KY) Rafael Manuel Hernandez 120 Josie Carroll 3/1 7 7Watsonville Red (ON) Leo Salles 118 Michael P. De Paulo 20/1
Selene Stakes
A field of eight 3-year-old fillies will duke it out in the CA$150,000 Selene Stakes (G3). The speedy Serendipity recorded a win and a second in two starts in the U.S. for trainer Brad Cox, and now competes for Canadian trainer Josie Carroll.
Nata Trouble, runner-up in four of her last five starts, exits a swiftly run Fury Stakes and seeks an elusive victory. The bay filly has been winless since Sept. 2024.
The Selene, like the Marine, is contested at 1 1/16 miles on Woodbine's synthetic Tapeta surface.
Woodbine, Saturday, June 28, 2025, Race 7Entries: Selene S. (G3)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L 1 1Somethinabouther (KY) Pietro Moran 122 Brendan P. Walsh 2/1 2 2Tiz Her Money (KY) Patrick Husbands 118 Mark E. Casse 8/1 3 3No Time (ON) Sahin Civaci 120 Mark E. Casse 4/1 4 4Madame Obey (KY) Fraser Aebly 118 Josie Carroll 6/1 5 5Serendipity (KY) Rafael Manuel Hernandez 118 Josie Carroll 5/2 6 6Ella It Is (ON) Ryan Munger 118 Mark E. Casse 20/1 7 7Crystalaire (GB) Jose Luis Campos 118 Michael P. De Paulo 15/1 8 8Nata Trouble (ON) David Moran 118 W. V. Armata 10/1
Dominion Day Stakes
The longest stakes race on Saturday's card is the 1 1/8-mile, CA$150,000 Dominion Day Stakes (G3) for older horses, which lured 10-time-winning mare Fashionably Fab, who battles seven male rivals in the race over synthetic.
Essex Serpent and Classic Mo Town both were victorious in their lone Woodbine appearances this year. The former, who last year as a 3-year-old took the 2024 Marine, captured an allowance optional claimer last month, while the latter rallied to victory in the May 31 Eclipse Stakes (G2).
Woodbine, Saturday, June 28, 2025, Race 9Entries: Dominion Day S. (G3)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L 1 1Bail Us Out (KY) Pietro Moran 119 Kevin Attard 8/1 2 2Fashionably Fab (ON) Pietro Moran 120 Kevin Attard 6/1 3 3Stanley House (ON) Leo Salles 119 Michael P. De Paulo 10/1 4 4Fly the W (KY) Sahin Civaci 119 Martin Drexler 15/1 5 5Funtastic Again (KY) Victor Espinoza 119 Wesley A. Ward 2/1 6 6Dancin in Da'nile (ON) Jose Luis Campos 119 Gail Cox 20/1 7 7Essex Serpent (ON) Patrick Husbands 121 Mark E. Casse 5/2 8 8Classic Mo Town (FL) Eswan Flores 121 Martin Drexler 4/1
