{"id":2876,"date":"2019-06-29T11:47:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T15:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/queensplate\/the-queens-plate-lady-power\/"},"modified":"2019-06-29T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T15:47:33","slug":"the-queens-plate-lady-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/kingsplate\/2019\/06\/29\/the-queens-plate-lady-power\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen\u2019s Plate: Lady Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Colin Nolte and Tommy Cosgrove for Woodbine.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Queen\u2019s Plate, the most important race for Canadian three-year-old Thoroughbreds, is the oldest continuously run stakes race on the North American continent. The event is steeped in tradition and folklore. From the awarding of 50 Royal Sovereigns, which dates back to the original purse awarded at its first running, to the presence of reigning monarchs or representatives of the Royal family, the annual classic honours both history and modern times as a spectacle and an important day on the Canadian sporting calendar.<\/p>\n

Recent editions of this classic event have been won by fillies racing against the best colts in Canada. Last year\u2019s winner Wonder Gadot, 2017 winner Holy Helena, and 2014 winner Lexie Lou each claimed the most prestigious prize in Canadian racing. Three years before Lexie Lou, Inglorious (trained by Josie Carroll) won the Plate. That makes it four filly winners in the past eight years. A remarkable run of success for the ladies of the turf.<\/p>\n

When you consider that a Canadian Thoroughbred has only one opportunity to win a Queen\u2019s Plate in their lifetime, this recent rise of filly Plate winners demonstrates we\u2019re in a golden age of Canadian female Thoroughbreds. Wonder Gadot followed up her impressive win with another in the Prince of Wales Stakes, thus capturing two legs of the OLG Canadian Triple Crown. She would later be awarded the Sovereign Award as 2018 Canadian Horse of the Year due to her sensational triumphs over male counterparts.<\/p>\n

Holy Helena, Lexie Lou and Inglorious had previously captured the Woodbine Oaks presented by Budweiser, known with tongue-in-cheek as \u201cThe Fillies\u2019 Plate\u201d prior to winning Canada\u2019s biggest race in their respective three-year-old seasons. Inglorious and Holy Helena both were chosen as Champion three-year0old filly for their exploits on the track, while Lexie Lou one upped them by taking 2014 Sovereign Award Horse of the Year honours, as well as Champion three-year-old filly.<\/p>\n

There have been 37 filly winners of the Queen\u2019s Plate in the first 159 runnings of the race.\u00a0 Twenty-three per cent (23%) Queen\u2019s Plate winners are fillies. This is an extraordinary record for the distaff side of racing. Many famous fillies in Canadian racing have beaten the boys including Flaming Page, Canada\u2019s Queen of Racing, the incomparable Dance Smartly, and her daughter Dancethruthedawn. Legendary \u201cQueens\u201d in their own right, they are members of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. \u00a0The latest four filly winners are poised to be just as revered to future generations.<\/p>\n

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Sam-Son Farm’s Desert Ride is the lone filly contender in this year’s Queen’s Plate for trainer Neil Howard. (Michael Burns Photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year\u2019s edition, the 160th running of the Queen\u2019s Plate, will have Desert Ride in the field. She\u2019ll need to be at her best because of the stellar field of colts looking to make their own history. Colts such as Avie\u2019s Flatter and Skywire will try their best to keep the ladies behind them at the finish line.<\/p>\n

\u201cLady Power\u201d in the Queen\u2019s Plate is not restricted to the equine females that have participated. Hall of Fame inductee Josie Carroll is the only woman trainer to win the Plate. In fact, Carroll has trained two Queen\u2019s Plate champions (Edenwold in 2006 being the other) and will be sending out this year\u2019s early favourite Avie\u2019s Flatter this year. Popular jockey Emma-Jayne Wilson rode Mike Fox to victory in 2007 to become the only woman jockey to pilot a Queen\u2019s Plate winner.<\/p>\n

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Trainer Josie Carroll’s Queen’s Plate contender Avie’s Flatter. (Michael Burns Photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a sport which for centuries has been dominated by human and equine males, their female equivalents have risen substantially to not only compete, but to defeat their male counterparts on equal terms. \u201cLady Power\u201d in the Queen\u2019s Plate has never been more noticeable than what we are witnessing in recent years, as they kick down the doors of what was perceived traditionally as a “Men\u2019s Only” club.<\/p>\n

The Queen\u2019s Plate brings the best three-year-old Canadian-bred horses together, with each one vying to become forever known as \u201cA Queen\u2019s Plate Champion.\u201d This annual event also brings out thousands of fans dressed in their finest in attendance. The glamour of fashionably dressed ladies gives the Queen\u2019s Plate an aura of elegance unseen in any other sporting event in this country. With the resounding successes of recent Thoroughbred ladies, an equine \u201cBattle of the Sexes\u201d has brought considerable pleasure to those in attendance. It\u2019s no longer considered as an upset victory for a distaff equine to win the Queen\u2019s Plate, but a distinct possibility.<\/p>\n

Competing in a race named in honour of a lady monarch and watching a filly beat the boys seems apropos. Outstanding and fast fillies, talented and professional trainers and jockeys, as well as elegant ladies in attendance give the Queen\u2019s Plate a sense of excitement and intrigue that no other sporting event can offer in Canada. We embrace \u201cQueen\u2019s Plate Lady Power.\u201d There is no other day on the calendar like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Colin Nolte and Tommy Cosgrove for Woodbine.com The Queen\u2019s Plate, the most important race for Canadian three-year-old Thoroughbreds, is the oldest continuously run stakes race on the North American continent. The event is steeped in tradition and folklore. 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