A “rough diamond” galloped to victory in the second leg of Canadian thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown as an 8-to-1 long-shot on Tuesday at Fort Erie Race Track.

While the Prince of Wales Stakes, a race over 1 3/16ths mile on dirt, was only the third Runaway Again’s career start, a late surge carried the three-year-old colt past King’s Plater winner — and 8-to-5 favourite — Mansetti by half a length in the $400,000 purse race.

Runaway Again’s jockey, Ryan Munger, and the Stronach Stables-owned horse’s trainer, Sid C. Attard, each admitted in post-race interviews they were more or less resigned to placing second to the favourite at the “eight pole.”

“I thought, if I finish strong, I’ll get second, and then I saw Mansetti starting to tread water a little bit,“ Munger, a native of South Af

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