by Frank Carulli
June 26, 2025
Woodbine Racetrack will celebrate Canada’s 158th birthday in style this Saturday, June 28. The 10-race card will feature five graded stakes, four that make up the Late Pick 4 featured below. The $38.40 suggested ticket is for a 60-cent wager, three times the 20-cent base amount. Players at Xpressbet and 1/ST BET can take advantage of a 2 Million 1/ST Rewards Points Hit & Split if successful on Woodbine's late pick 4 on Saturday.
WO 7th race (4:32 p.m. EST) -- SOMETHINABOUTHER, the only Grade 3 winner in the field and one of five entrants to conquer the distance, gets the added benefit of a projected lively pace to rally into. Speed abounds in the $150,000 Selene Stakes and the improving 3-year-old filly benefits the most from the inside post. TIZ HER MONEY trailed to the quarter pole at 7F, circled the 4-to-5 pace setter and the rest of the field with a 5-wide blitz, then had to dig in late to hold safe the lead. She is by multiple Grade 1 winner Tiz The Law (6-9, $2.7 million) and her dam’s sibling’s are 10-for-18 on synthetic tracks as 3-year-olds.
WO 8th race (5:06 p.m. EST) -- MY BOY PRINCE transitioned well to sprinting on the turf in his first two starts as a 4-year-old. The soon-to-be millionaire disputed the pace under ‘heavy restraint’ when he won a minor stakes off a six-month layoff, then he slipped through on the rail to lead between calls in the stretch in the Grade 1 Jaipur before pace dueler AG Bullet (7-12, $1.6 million on turf) battled back to win. He will have a locally-based tiger to deal with in today’s Grade 2 Highlander. Ontario-bred PATCHES O’HOULIHAN led at almost every call in compiling a 12-for-15 record – all at Woodbine – with four graded stakes victories and an average 101 Beyer in his last six starts.
WO 9th race (5:39 p.m. EST) -- Hitting the ‘ALL’ button in the Grade 3 Dominion Day as eight entrants look to win at 1-1/8 miles for the first time. FUNTASTIC AGAIN returns to the synthetic surface after he posted his second of two mid-90 Beyers with a third-place finish from post 11 in the Grade 3 Kentucky Cup Classic at Turfway Park 13 months ago. ESSEX SERPENT blazed along to win a $50,000 allowance route in his seasonal debut on a day when six winners dominated on the front end. CLASSIC MOTOWN became the only Grade 2 winner in the field when he rallied in time to win the Eclipse Stakes at Woodbine last month.
WO 10th race (6:11 p.m. EST) -- CAITLINHERGRTNESS ran to her blistering workouts in a Grade 3 win on the all-weather track to begin her 4-year-old campaign. She anxiously tracked the dueling leaders, exploded through an opening as the field bunched up near the quarter pole and ran off to a 5-length win in the Belle Mahone Stakes. Now she switches back to the turf, where she set the pace and finished third in the 1-1/8-mile Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Keeneland last fall behind She Feels Pretty, a $1.7 million earner and five-time Grade 1 winner. It’s hard to look past her in today’s Grade 2 Nassau Stakes. If there’s an upsetter in the field, maybe it’s MIXOLOGIST. She kept a busy – and steady -- work tab the last five weeks and gets back on Lasix for her seasonal debut. She swung 7-wide for the stretch drive and won a 1-1/16-mile allowance at Saratoga through disqualification last fall, then ‘remained on hold to the quarter pole’ but lacked stretch kick in a follow-up Grade 3 turf marathon at 1-3/8 miles.
Suggested 60-Cent Ticket
WO 7th Race: 1, 2
WO 8th Race: 1, 5
WO 9th Race: ALL
WO 10th Race: 4, 9
Cost: $38.40