ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Mark Casse sends out the prime King’s Plate prospects My Boy Prince and Midnight Mascot in Sunday’s $100,000 King Corrie, a seven-furlong stakes for 3-year-olds at Woodbine. My Boy Prince garnered the 2023 Sovereign Award for champion male 2-year-old in a landslide vote, and justifiably so. The son of Cairo Prince won three of six starts, including blowout scores in the Cup and Saucer and Simcoe stakes, to go along with a second in the Grade 1 Summer. The highlight of My Boy Prince’s juvenile campaign was arguably his pace-pressing third in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita. Returning from a six-month break on April 7 in the 5 1/2-furlong Palisades Stakes at Keeneland, he checked in 3 1/4 lengths back in eighth, a performance Casse was content with. :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match + FREE All Access PPs! Join DRF Bets. “I thought he ran really well,” Casse said. “It’s not easy when you bring accomplished horses back from a layoff. You have very few places to run them in. It was a tough race and he’s got to be at his peak when he runs in a race like that. You want a race to build on. You don’t want him peaking in April.” My Boy Prince has breezed three times locally, including five-eighths in 1:00.40 on May 5, a move that was the second fastest of 92 works at the distance. Sahin Civaci rides the 124-pound highweight. Midnight Mascot graduated in his third 2-year-old outing in October and subsequently got the winter off after ending up fifth in the Grade 3 Grey and second to Frac Dancer in the Clarendon Stakes. He was favored when he returned to the race in the six-furlong Woodstock Stakes here April 28 and won by a neck after an inside stalking trip with a modest 76 Beyer Speed Figure under Patrick Husbands. “He’s a very consistent horse,” Casse said. “We were very happy with the Woodstock and hopefully, he can build off that. I think he will like the added distance.” By Army Mule, Midnight Mascot is out of a full sister to 2013 Queen’s Plate victor Midnight Aria. Just three others were entered –Maximus Magic, Roi Soleil, and Break the Spell. Maximus Magic was claimed from Casse for $25,000 when second on debut here Oct. 6 by trainer Norm McKnight. He subsequently won his maiden by 10 lengths going a mile for $50,000 at Oaklawn Jan. 1, after which he placed in allowance company there. He found 1 1/8 miles too far, tiring after setting the pace to finish fourth in the $200,000 Bathhouse Row Stakes at Oaklawn in his most recent start. Roi Soleil is making his first start for trainer Steve Chircop after racing twice five furlongs on the grass for trainer Todd Pletcher. The closer won his debut last August at Monmouth and finished second off the layoff in an April 18 allowance at Gulfstream. The Dave Cotey-trained Break the Spell was fourth in his season opener in the Woodstock. He ran erratically at 2, including a belated fourth in the Display Stakes. There is no show wagering on the King Corrie, which goes as the third on a nine-race card. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.