Husbands wins Prince of Wales Stakes aboard Wando

TORONTO, Canada:  Barbadian jockey Patrick Husbands completed the second leg of Canadian horse racing’s triple crown aboard the impressive colt Wando, and swept the trio of stakes races on a fabulous day for him at Fort Erie on Sunday. Husbands steered hot 3-10 favourite Wando to an easy four-length win in the CAN$500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes, and he also landed the Benburb and Border Cup Stakes races. The Prince of Wales victory, coming on the heels of Wando’s equally impressive score in the triple crown’s first leg, last month’s Queen’s Plate, gave Wando a second leg up on his quest for a lucrative series.

Arco’s Gold (7-1) was second and Shoal Water (6-1) finished third, as Wando covered the 1-1/16th mile trip in one minute 55.84 seconds. A win in the CAN$500,000 Breeders’ Stakes, a 1.5 mile turf race at Woodbine on August 9, would make Wando the seventh horse to pull off the Canadian Triple since its inauguration in 1959, and the first since Peteski in 1993.  Husbands was capping a perfect day as he also won the CAN$68,900 Benburb aboard 7-2 chance Geraint by ? a length, and the CAN $65,300 Border Cup with 8-5 favourite Agolo by 2-1/4 lengths.