In this week’s edition of the Notebook: Multiple graded stakes winner Paramount Prince, who won the 2024 Seagram Cup, posts an outstanding 7-for-8 in-the-money record at the 1 1/16-mile distance. Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse also brings Lucky Guest, a talented runner he believes has yet to reach his full potential. Elsewhere on the card, You Be the Judge looks like one to watch in Race 2, having finished in the top three in five of eight starts at 6 furlongs. 87.5 percent Multiple graded stakes winner Paramount Prince, who won the 2024 edition of the Seagram Cup and was third in last year’s running, is 2-0-5 from 8 starts at the Seagram’s 1 1/16-mile distance. Paramount Prince. Michael Burns Photography Thrive at 8.5 War Court has won his past two starts at the 1 1/16-mile distance. Runaway Again is 2-0-1 from 3 tries at the distance. Lucky Guest won by 5 ¾ lengths the last time he traveled 1 1/16 miles. Flying solo? Mark Casse, who sends out Lucky Guest and Paramount Prince in the Seagram Cup, has won a record-tying four editions of the race, including last year with Swift Delivery. Josie Carroll, who trains Notorious Gangster, also has a quartet of Seagram Cup scores to her name. 5 at 6 You Be the Judge, 3-1 in the morning line for Saturday’s second race, has finished in the top three on five of eight occasions at 6 furlongs. You Be the Judge. Michael Burns Photography 1 better Alpha Gamma Girl, 3-1 in the morning line for Saturday’s third race, is 0-3-2 in 5 starts at 5 furlongs and is 0-3-1 in 4 tries on the Woodbine inner turf. Quotables “He loves what he does. As we know, he has one style of running. He goes out there and puts everything into it. Every now and then, somebody will go and run with him and that ends up to their demise, and sometimes it is his demise as well.” – Mark Casse, on Paramount Prince “He’s a big, strong boy. I don’t know if we have really got to his strengths yet because he has had a career of starting and stopping. If we could get to a point where we could get five or six races in a row, I think the sky is the limit for him.” – Mark Casse, on Lucky Guest Share This:Share
