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    The King's Plate (known as the Queen's Plate from 1860 to 1901 and 1952 to 2022) is Canada's oldest thoroughbred horse race and the oldest continuously...
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  • Kings Plate or king plate or variation may also refer to: King's Plate (South Africa) (also "Queen's Plate"), run since 1861, known as the "King's Plate" from...
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    18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse who won 18 races, including 11 King's Plates. He raced before the introduction of the British Classic Races, at a...
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  • The Queen's Plate (currently the "King's Plate"), run since 1860, is Canada's oldest thoroughbred horse race and is the first leg in the Canadian Triple...
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  • The King's Plate (known as the Queen's Plate during the reigns of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II) is an annual Grade I horse race at Kenilworth...
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    Woodbine Racetrack manages and hosts Canada's most famous race, the King's Plate. The track was opened in 1956 with a one-mile oval dirt track, as well...
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  • introduced in 1971, and the King's Stand Stakes was given Group 1 status in 1973. It was downgraded to Group 2 level in 1988. The King's Stand Stakes became part...
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  • but is contested on three different track surfaces. The first leg, the King's Plate in August, is contested at 1¼ miles on Tapeta at Woodbine Racetrack in...
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    Aboriginal breastplates (also called king plates or aboriginal gorgets) were a form of regalia used in pre-Federation Australia by white colonial authorities...
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    Charles Vance Millar (category Owners of King's Plate winners)
    brewery of O'Keefe Brewery. He also owned racehorses, including the 1915 King's Plate–winning horse Tartarean. However, he is now best known for his unusual...
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    two most valuable races run at the course were the King's Plate and the Town Plate. Two more Plate races were added in that year, paid for by local traders...
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    Toronto, Ontario, the Breeders' Stakes follows the August running of the King's Plate and the September running of the Prince of Wales Stakes. At a distance...
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  • Gary Barber (category Owners of King's Plate winners)
    Racetrack in Toronto, Canada. In 2014, his filly Lexie Lou won the Queen's Plate and was named the Canadian Horse of the Year. His horse War of Will won...
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    Class of the Oatlands Stakes, coming in 1803. He went on to win eight King's Plates and recorded wins over several leading racehorses of the time. He was...
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  • in the race. In 1937 Goldlure won Canada's most prestigious race, the King's Plate. For owner Harry Hatch, trainer Bill Bringloe would later ship the colt...
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    win the King's Plate. She also won a race at Lincoln in 1762. Her final race came in April 1763 at Newmarket, where she won the King's Plate for Mares...
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    Challenge Stakes: 2nd, after Blackfoot, beat four others King's Plate: 2nd to Freney King's Plate: 3rd, after winner Harkaway, and Gipsy (bl.f. Sir Hercules)...
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    Samuel McLaughlin (category Owners of King's Plate winners)
    most prestigious race, the Queen's Plate, in 1934 his future Hall of Fame colt Horometer won both the Queen's Plate and the Breeders' Stakes. In 1950,...
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    Harry Watts (jockey) (category King's Plate)
    thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He won the 56th running of Canada's King's Plate race in 1915 on the horse Tartarean. Watts was born in 1894 in Toronto...
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    the Canadian Triple Crown series. It follows the August running of the King's Plate and precedes the Breeders' Stakes in October. The race was inaugurated...
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    E. P. Taylor (category Owners of King's Plate winners)
    The most notable of these was Chop Chop, who went on to sire four Queen's Plate winners for Taylor including Canadiana and Victoria Park, who also became...
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  • Cleopatra in a 500 guineas race over four miles. In April 1729 he won the King's Plate at Newmarket, beating the Duke of Hamilton's Victorious and Mr. Williams's...
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    Town Plate is an historic British horse race which has been run in the town of Newmarket, Suffolk since 1665 or 1666. The race was instigated by King Charles...
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  • Conn Smythe (category Owners of King's Plate winners)
    Second World War. The horses of Smythe's racing stable won the Queen's Plate three times among 145 stakes race wins during his lifetime. Smythe started...
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    the Ontario Jockey Club and of the Seagram Stables. His horses won the King's Plate in 1923, 1926, 1928 and 1933. He helped establish the Westmount Golf...
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  • and trainer who won the 1924 Kentucky Derby on Black Gold and the 1929 King's Plate on Shorelint. Mooney's riding career lasted for 10 years. His record...
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    Harry C. Hatch (category Owners of King's Plate winners)
    other King's Plate winners: Budpath, Acara, and Uttermost and owned three winners of the Canadian Derby. Hatch owned and bred five King's Plate winners...
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    thirty-five races, including two Newmarket First October King's Plates, the Jockey-Club Plate and a match race against Derby winner Cardinal Beaufort....
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    in the King's Plate at Newmarket in 1755, but won the following year, when he was also narrowly beaten by Spectator for the Jockey Club Plate at Newmarket...
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  • for two and a half years. Zonda returned to his very best to win the King's Plate (Group 3, 1600m) and the Oaks Stud Classic (Group 1, 2000m) at Ellerslie...
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