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Ace Marine Heads Prince Of Wales Stakes Field Queens Plate Winner Engages Seven Other Canadian-Breds WOODBINE PARK, Toronto, Ont., June 24. Larkin Maloneys Queens Plate winner, Ace Marine heads a line-up of eight Canadian-bred sophomores, slated to compete in the Prince of Wales Stakes which will have it twentieth running at Woodbine on Saturday. The son of Ace Admiral Mazarine, an i ,500 bargain of the Canadian yearling sales, is unbeaten in three starts and is the leading money-winner this season with "r earnings of 8,664. In defense of his laurels, he will carry 123 pounds, topweight . in the ,000 added fixture at a mile and one-sixteenth. The field presents a rather disappointing draw from the eligible list of 54 but will nonetheless be interesting for its lack of numbers. Stafford Farms -Senator Jim, third in the Plate, and Bernford, his stable-mate who combined as the favored entry, 1 may be more formidable in the smaller field. The future Plate favorite, W. A. Moffatts Loyalist, well supported in the running, finished fourth and there were excuses found for his showing. He is ex- pected to show to better advantage with the risk of interference lessened. Mrs. R. E. Cookes Fleet Countess, who was not altogether favored with clear racing room in the Queens Plate, finished strongly in a manner to suggest that she can do better. Fleet Countess was sharp- ened for the Prince of Wales when she f finished third in a. sprint earlier in the week. V. J. Sheridans Springhurst, who was practically eliminated when he was caught in the jam after the start of the Queens Plate, is considered as a, prpspecti for a better performance with better racing luck. Trafalgar Farms Docking, withdrawn from the Plate when stable connections considered him short when he tired in a Plate trial, has since won a sprint impressively and trained well for the longer run. Perhaps the dark one in the Prince of Wales field is Flying Admiral, J. J. Flem-i Jnands good .jcolt who; was not made eligible. for the Queens Plate. He was last in the four-horse field which contested the Toronto Cup a week ago, but performed creditably against three of the better American-bred three-year-olds. He was racing strongly at the finish of the mile and one-sixteenth race. i The Prince of jyales Stakes; was inaugu.-.. rated as a Thorncliffe Park feature in 1929, and has usually been looked upon as a re-run of the Queens Plate by which a Plate winner could confirm superiority. Sis of its winners were repeaters from the classic and it has generally served as the early season -proving grounds of homebred three-year-olds.T fit ,i , , ,
