SARATOGA SPRINGS — Glens Falls native Peter Willmott has won stakes before in 20 years of owning horses, but only one of them had come at his hometown track.

Make that two.

Wesley, one of several horses the 71-year-old Willmott has with trainer Mark Hennig, split horses in midstretch and outran long shot Thou Swell and Deal Making to the wire in the Grade II National Mus­eum of Racing and Hall of Fame Stakes Monday at Saratoga Race Course.

It was the second straight win for the 3-year-old El Prado colt since being switched to the grass, and the first in a Saratoga stakes for Willmott since Sand Springs in the 2003 Lake Placid, also on turf.

“I can take more of that, yes sir,” Willmott said, standing just outside the winner’s circle. “It’s great to win one. The competition, as you know, is the best in the country.

“We’re in racing, basically, to try and win stakes races at Saratoga, so this is fantastic. It doesn’t get any better.”

Ridden by Javier Castellano, Wesley ($8.70) ran 11⁄16 miles in 1:50.22 on an inner turf course listed as firm.

It was half-length back to Thou Swell, who held second by a nose over Deal Making. Adriano, the even-money favorite, ran into traffic trouble in the stretch and was fourth, another half-length back.

“Unfortunately, I have a nice trip until the quarter pole,” Adriano’s jockey, Edgar Prado, said. Earlier in the day, Prado was one of six new members inducted into the Hall of Fame, located across Union Avenue from the track.

“The horses were dying in front of me, so I had to look for a place to go. It was too late when I got free. There’s no doubt about it; I had the best horse in that race.”

Wesley has been a different horse since being moved to the grass for his previous start at Belmont Park June 28. In that race, he had an eventful trip but managed to weave through horses and find a seam on the inside, getting up by a head at the wire.

There was less traffic worries this time for Hennig, who was more concerned with the deliberate pace of :24.17, :49.38 and 1:14.77 set by Thou Swell. Jockey Javier Castellano was able to save ground early before swinging five wide turning for home.

“It was a little hairy when I was watching those fractions clip off and we were looking at all of them,” he said. “I was pleased he kicked like he did and moved when he did, because he kind of eased him up where at least he didn’t have too much to do when he turned for home.”

Castellano, who was aboard for Wesley’s maiden win on dirt in April, took over for Ramon Dominguez, who was committed to ride Deal Making for trainer Graham Motion.

“I know Ramon really liked him and he was very complimentary of him after [his last] race,” Hennig said.

Another nice one to add to Willmott’s resume, which also includes Grade I winner Eddington and Williams News, who ran in the 2000 Breeders’ Cup Turf.

Now a resident of Chicago, Willmott was a former executive for Federal Express and Zenith Electronics, before founding his own retail holding and consulting company.

“He’s a nice horse,” Willmott said. “He ran into some trouble in his last one, but he got through it. This one, he gave me a little bit of a heart attack there, but it worked out.”