Fort Erie Announces 2024 Dates; Prince of Wales Sep. 10
The second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, the Prince of Wales Stakes, will hit the border oval at Fort Erie on Sept. 10 for its 89th running.
The second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, the Prince of Wales Stakes, will hit the border oval at Fort Erie on Sept. 10 for its 89th running.
Reigning Sovereign Award-winning owner Bruno Schickedanz, who topped the standings during meets at Woodbine, Fort Erie, and Gulfstream Park last year, also finished first across a broader metric in 2023—by wins throughout all of North America.
The traditional end-of-season race, the Tour de Fort, closed things out in a very non-traditional fashion at Fort Erie Oct. 17, with a stunning 40-length lead vanishing completely down the final stretch.
One Bay Hemingway, Danger Bay's only foal, won the Lake Erie Stakes Sept. 12 at Fort Erie and was previously second in the Grey Stakes (G3).
Al and Bill Ulwelling's homebred Velocitor experienced a change in fortune with a change in surface in the CA$400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes Sept. 12 at Fort Erie.
Fort Erie Race Track is clashing with Woodbine over changes to the Canadian Triple Crown schedule as well as rules that Woodbine has put in place on shipping between the two tracks.
With temperatures hovering at just about zero degrees as the sun came up for the first day of spring training on Easter Sunday, neither the horses nor their trainers seemed to mind the cold much.