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 Jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. tosses flower petals to celebrate aboard Tone Broke after the 2019 Prince of Wales Stakes |
The 84th renewal of the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes, the second jewel in Canada's Triple Crown for 3-year-olds foaled in Canada, was run Tuesday evening at Fort Erie Racetrack over a distance of 1 3/16 miles on the main track. Conditions were excellent for late July at the "border oval", with mostly sunny skies and a race time temperature of 22C (71F), the main track rated fast and the turf course firm.
 Tone Broke ralies on the outside in the stretch |
Jockey Flavien Prat sent One Bad Boy to the lead first time by and he set fractions of 23.50, 48.02, and 1:12.59 while pressed by Avie's Flatter and stalked by Tone Broke. Turning for home, Avie's Flatter came out 3 wide and swept to the lead through 1 mile in 1:37.19, but Tone Broke, confidently ridden by Ricardo Santana Jr. came out widest of all and rallied late to win by 2 lengths in 1:56.56. It was a neck back to One Bad Boy third.
Pgm Horse Jockey Win Place Show 3 Tone Broke Santana Jr. 13.20 5.50 2.60 2 Avie's Flatter Castellano 3.70 2.20 1 One Bad Boy Prat 2.10 Winning Time: 1:56.56 $1 Exacta 3-2 18.20 $1 Trifecta 3-2-1 37.05 $1 Superfecta 3-2-1-4 154.15 |
Left: Tone Broke in the winner's circle. Darren Fleming, assistant to winning trainer Steve Asmussen said, "(Next start) will be up to Steve and the owners to decide, but I kind of think he'll go ahead and finish out the Canadian Triple Crown. I think the further, the better. And he's versatile. He's been on the (Tapeta) one time, and he liked it. I don't think the turf will bother him a bit. I think he'd run on broken glass."
Right: Tone Broke heads back to the barn after the race. Fleming added, "He was a little anxious in the Queen's Plate, he didn't want to settle the first quarter of a mile. Today he was a lot smoother. (Sitting third) was kind of how it unfolded. He had a smooth break, he was very relaxed within himself. Ricardo just waited to see what everybody else was going to do. We knew he was going to finish up."
Left: Tone Broke in the paddock before the race.
Right: Tone Broke parades for the fans after the race. Winning jockey Ricardo Santana Jr., winning his first ever race at Fort Erie said, "He's just a horse that's a steady horse. The longer a race is, the better he is. He kept fighting today. As soon as I started asking him when we drove for home he kept running. I knew I had plenty of horse. He ran a really nice race today."
Left: Jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. celebrates with the trophy. Santana said, "He put himself in the spot he wanted to. I put him in a great spot. He broke really sharp today. He was nice and comfortable outside the speed. Turning for home, he gave me a nice kick."
Right: The horses break from the gate for the Prince of Wales with Avie's Flatter and One Bad Boy bumping a bit. Santana added, "A five-horse field, a lot of people think it's easy. I think it's tough because you don't have enough horses, you don't know what the other horses are going to do."
Left: Second place finisher Avie's Flatter returns after the race. Jockey Javier Castellano said, "The horse did everything I wanted of him today. He did everything perfect. He was second best today."
Right: Third place finisher and beaten favorite One Bad Boy in the paddock. Jockey Flavien Prat said, "He broke a step slow. I left out of there and I was fine on the lead, he was comfortable, he was relaxing well, but when I asked him to make a run he could not stay the same pace. It’s probably not his best surface and the start might have cost him a little bit too. He's not as good (on dirt) as he is on turf or Poly."
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