Woodbine racetrack has cooked up a huge weekend of racing highlighted by the 162nd Queen’s Plate on Sunday, August 22, with 24 races, eight of them stakes events and five of them graded.

A litany of top local horses will be challenged by numerous shippers to Ontario and perhaps the most exciting visitor is the grey filly CARAVEL, the 2020 Pennsylvania Horse of the Year and recent graded stakes winner at Saratoga. Celebrity chef and shrewd horse owner BOBBY FLAY bought 75% of this Mizzen Mast filly who was bred by Elizabeth Merryman and raced for the trainer through June 25. Through that time the filly won six of eight races on turf and synthetic. Following her win at Monmouth in the Goodwood Stakes on June 25, Flay bought in and watched her win the Grade 3 Caress Stakes on July 24.

The filly is now trained by Graham Motion, who is a neighbour of Merryman at Fair Hill Training Centre.

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