With a $400,000 purse, the Prince of Wales Stakes was the pre-eminent race on Tuesday's program - and of the entire year - at Fort Erie, but it didn't generate the only headlines.

In a sidebar sure to soften all but the hardest of stone-hearted touts, Mr. Changue's came from behind to win the fourth race.

His morning-line odds of winning were 7-to-2, but the six-year-old was an overwhelming sentimental favourite by race time.

"A lot of people will be cheering for that horse, that's for sure," Tom Valiquette, the track's chief operating officer, said before the race.

The reason? It was the six-year-old first race since a backhoe was needed to rescue him from a sinkhole in a backstretch area at the track on July 11.

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