Prince of Wales Stakes to run on Labour Day Sept. 7, 2026

Fort Erie Race Track confirmed Feb. 23, 2026 that the 91st running of the Prince of Wales Stakes will be held on Labour Day, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. The track framed the move as a scheduling change in a release distributed via Fort Erie, and the race will carry its designation as the second jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown.

The announcement sets the Prince of Wales Stakes for Fort Erie's Labour Day card on Sept. 7, 2026, giving owners and trainers a fixed target for late-summer conditioning and entries. With the 91st edition now pinned to a Monday holiday, paddock schedules, travel plans for connections, and the Fort Erie meet calendar will center on that single date.

Because the Prince of Wales Stakes is the second jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown, the Sept. 7 date will be a pivotal point in the Triple Crown chase for any three-year-old aiming to string together wins. The Fort Erie release distributed Feb. 23, 2026 confirms the sequence’s middle test will be contested at Fort Erie Race Track on Labour Day, creating a compact window between Triple Crown events and the autumn stakes schedule.

Race-day operations at Fort Erie will now build toward Monday, Sept. 7, 2026, when the 91st Prince of Wales Stakes is scheduled to run. The track’s Feb. 23 release established the formal calendar entry for that event, and Fort Erie will host the second jewel of Canada’s Triple Crown on the Labour Day holiday.