Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s Sir Dudley Digges, piloted by Julien Leparoux, arrived in the final strides to collar favoured Amis Gizmo to win Sunday’s 157th running of The Queen’s Plate, at Woodbine. The 13-race Queen’s Plate card produced a record handle of $11,839,883 eclipsing the mark of $11,064,870 set a year ago. The mile and […]
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Olga Pankova has been selected as the Official Artist of the 2016 Queen’s Plate. Her painting, ‘Mudder – All Out,’ which was chosen from a compelling field of submissions, came to be after a request fro a horse painting from her daughter. A simple wish from Pankova’s six-year-old daughter eventually led to a series of […]
Stronach Stables’ homebred Shaman Ghost, ridden by Rafael Hernandez, reeled in Danish Dynaformer inside the sixteenth pole to win a thrilling 156th edition of the $1 million Queen’s Plate, Canada’s most famous horse race, by one and one-quarter lengths, Sunday at Woodbine. It marked the third Plate win for Frank Stronach, following two other homebreds, […]
Charles Fipke’s Danish Dynaformer, Stronach Stables’ Shaman Ghost and Bear Stables’ Academic head an ultra-competitive field of 14 for the $1 million Queen’s Plate, Canada’s most famous horse race, Sunday at Woodbine. The 156th edition of the Plate for Canadian-foaled three-year-olds, the oldest continuously run stakes race in North America, will be televised live on […]
Trainer Reade Baker will saddle a trio of top contenders in Sunday’s $1-million Canadian Classic led by Oaks-winning filly Academic and the maiden-winning colts Bear At Last and Breaking Lucky. Bear Stables’ Academic, with Justin Stein up, romped to a 66-1 score in the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks, presented by Budweiser. It was just the second […]
The start of his career was a little spooky, but after three consecutive wins, this Queen’s Plate starter is the ‘Ghost’ with the most. His first three races didn’t produce the desired results, but Shaman Ghost, owned by Stronach Stables and trained by Brian Lynch, has reeled off a trio of victories, including a gutsy […]
Trainer Mark Casse, a seven-time Sovereign Award winner as Canada’s top conditioner, will try for a second consecutive Queen’s Plate win on Sunday. The last trainer to win back-to-back Plates was Mark Frostad (Scatter The Gold, 2000; Dancethruthedawn, 2001). Last year, Casse celebrated his first win in Canada’s most famous horse race when filly Lexie […]
Ami’s Flatter, currently a top prospect on the Kentucky Derby trail for trainer Josie Carroll, was today installed the early 5-2 favorite for the 156th edition of The Queen’s Plate. Last year, it was filly Lexie Lou who thrilled a packed Woodbine grandstand with a powerful stretch run to take the winner’s share of the […]
Lexie Lou charmed many racing fans and produced countless new ones with her win at the 155th edition of the Queen’s Plate at Woodbine on Sunday. On the business side, Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) also considers this year’s event a terrific success. A total of $9,079,520 million was wagered on the 13-race card, the second […]
Gary Barber’s Lexie Lou, confidently handled by jockey Patrick Husbands, took over in upper stretch from pacesetter Asserting Bear and went on to a comfortable one and one-half length victory over Ami’s Holiday in the $1 million Queen’s Plate, Sunday at Woodbine. Sent postward the 3-1 second choice behind favoured We Miss Artie, Lexie Lou […]
We Miss Artie is the first horse Ken and Sarah Ramsey will run in the Queen’s Plate as owners. They bred Queen’splatekitten, who ran in the race in 2011, but sold him privately after his second start. Queen’splatekitten finished fifth. Best known for running homebreds by their star stallion Kitten’s Joy, the Ramseys purchased We […]
Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s We Miss Artie, the 4-1 favourite when the Queen’s Plate Winterbook odds were released in March, heads a field of seven for Sunday’s $150,000 Plate Trial Stakes at Woodbine. The Plate Trial, at one mile and one-eighth on Polytrack for Canadian foaled three-year-olds, will be televised live on TSN2 as part […]
We Miss Artie, currently a top prospect on the Kentucky Derby trail for trainer Todd Pletcher, was today installed the early 4-1 favorite for the 155th edition of the Queen’s Plate. Last year, Midnight Aria led gate to wire to defeat Sam-Son Farm’s Up With the Birds to take the winner’s share of the $1 […]
Toronto, ON – One hundred and two stakes races, worth nearly $20 million in purses, will highlight Woodbine’s 133-day Thoroughbred meet in 2014. The Woodbine stakes schedule, unveiled today by the Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG), is highlighted by the 155th running of the Queen’s Plate. The 1 1/4-mile classic, which carries a $1 million purse, is […]
Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) announced its results for Woodbine’s 2013 Thoroughbred racing season, which concluded Sunday, December 15. The 131-day meet produced “all-sources” per card wagering of $3,095,872, a 6.41 per cent increase over the $2,909,394 per card recorded in 2012. The overall wagering was $405,559,284, compared to $453,865,564 in 2012, which featured 25 more […]
