Queen’s Plate runner-up Up With the Birds captures $500,000 Breeders’ Stakes
TORONTO – Up With the Birds won the $500,000 Breeders’ Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack on Sunday.
The Queen’s Plate runner-up showed why he was the overwhelming 1/2 favourite, covering the 1 1/2-mile turf event in 2:28.69 in the final leg of the Canadian Triple Crown.
The Breeders’ Stakes was Up With the Birds’ first race since the Plate.
Owner Sam-Son Farm captured the $300,000 winner’s share, capturing this event a record sixth time.
River Seven was second in the 10-horse field, with Pyrite Mountain taking third.
Up With the Birds didn’t have to contend with either Queen’s Plate champion Midnight Aria or Prince of Wales victor Uncaptured as neither winner of the opening two legs ran Sunday.
Wando is the last Canadian Triple Crown winner, achieving the feat in 2003.
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