Classic Rubber Match in Breeders'

Sir Dudley Digges (Gio Ponti) and Amis Gizmo (Giant Gizmo), winners of the Queen's Plate and Prince of Wale's S., respectively, look to settle the score over the Woodbine turf in Sunday Breeders' S.–the final leg of Canada's Triple Crown. Ami's Gizmo, winner of five of his first six career starts including the June 12 Plate Trial and favored at 5-2 in the Queen's Plate, hit the front heading for home in that July 3 Classic over the local Tapeta, but was reeled in in the waning stages by 15-1 Sir Dudley Digges, who was third in the Plate Trial. The bettors stuck with Amis Gizmo for the July 26 Prince of Wales on the Fort Erie dirt, and they couldn't have been more right–the Ivan Dalos homebred crushed three of these foes by 5 1/2 lengths. Sir Dudley Digges, off as the 4-1 third choice, never looked comfortable and checked in sixth. But the switch to grass and more real estate could help Sir Dudley Digges, who broke his maiden on the Keeneland lawn in April and whose dam My Pal Lana (Kris S.) won the 2004 Flaming Page S. over this course and distance. Conquest Daddyo (Scat Daddy), one of two representatives for leading trainer Mark Casse along with Prince of Wales runner-up Leavem in Malibu (Malibu Moon), sports the most established grass form. An upset winner of last September's GII Summer S., he was a late-on-the-scene fourth in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf in October. He failed to fire in his next two outings, but bounced back when third behind talented stablemate Conquest Enforcer (Into Mischief) in the Charlie Barley S. here July 3 before annexing the nine-panel Toronto Cup S. three weeks later.