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The Plate - 150 Years of Royal Tradition from Don Juan to the 2009 Winter (Hardcover)
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The Plate - 150 Years of Royal Tradition from Don Juan to the 2009 Winter (Hardcover)
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The Queen's Plate was inaugurated, with royal blessing, on
Wednesday, June 27, 1860, at the Carleton track in Toronto, located
in bucolic surroundings near what is now the traffic-strangled
southwestern corner of Keele and Dundas streets. There is no reason
to believe that Queen Victoria was a wild-eyed devotee of horse
racing. However, Her Majesty granted the petition of the little
turf club in the boisterous Upper Canada community (the population
of Toronto was 44,425) and offered as an annual prize, "a plate to
the value of Fifty Guineas." And thus Canadian horse racing was
established as "the sport of royalty." Today, the Queen's Plate is
the first jewel in Canada's Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing and
the longest continuously run stakes race in North America. It takes
place every June, and the first-place purse is $1 million. The
Plate is unquestionably Canada's most famous, one-day social and
sporting event. This book explores the colourful history of the
Queen's Plate through words and archival photographs.
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