Currently fast and firm for the nine-race Prince of Wales card, which begins at 4:10 p.m. Post time for the $400K Wales, the middle leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, is 7:38 p.m.

Queen’s Plate winner Wonder Gadot will be a short price in the six-horse event, and justifiably so. With blinkers on, she won the 10-furlong Plate fairly easily on Woodbine’s Tapeta surface. She is proven on the dirt, over which she lost a heartbreaker to Monomoy Girl in the G1 Kentucky Oaks. Trainer Mark Casse has won the mile and three-sixteenth Wales thrice.

The concern with Wonder Gadot is that the June 30 Plate was her 12th start in as many months, and it was contested on a brutally hot day, which could take its toll on any horse who competed then.

I will try to beat “Wonder Woman” with a fresher Cooler Mike, who was a stalking third in the fast-paced Plate, in his first start in 41 days. The handsome son of Giant Gizmo, who sired 2016 Wales victor Amis Gizmo, worked fast over Woodbine’s dirt training track the other day, breezing a half-mile in a bullet :46. It wouldn’t be surprising to see Jesse Campbell put him on the lead, and play catch-me-if-you-can. His owner/trainer, Nick Nosowenko, has never won a stakes.

Aheadbyacentury took the long way home while closing for second in the Plate. Last year’s Coronation Futurity victor picked up some of the pieces in each of his last three outings, and is a must-use underneath in the exotics. Trainer John Ross captured the 2017 Wales with longshot Cool Catomine.

Kentucky shipper Home Base is a wild card. The son of classic winner Street Sense is coming off a dreadful performance in the G3 Matt Winn going a mile and a sixteenth at Churchill, and is questionable going this far. However, he earned a 92 Beyer in his seven-furlong allowance score two back, and is the lone entrant with a work over the Fort Erie surface. Expect the supplement to be lower than his 8-1 morning line price.

The early scratches: Spin Wild in the second; Snowy Legacy and Tom Joy in the fourth; Hombre Natural and Tizmatized in the seventh; International Man in the ninth.