Information AboutQueen's Plate |
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Initiated in 1859 by the then president of the Toronto Turf Club, Sir Casimir Gzowski , a distinguished Polish engineer and ancestor of the popular Canadian broadcaster, Peter Gzowski , the Queen's Plate was inaugurated on June 27, 1860, at the Carleton racetrack in Toronto, Ontario . The prize of 50 Guineas was originally awarded by Queen Victoria . Horses owned by Windfields Farm have won the Queen's Plate eleven times, but the most successful was the stable owned by Joseph E. Seagram , a prominent Distiller from Waterloo, Ontario . Seagram's stable won it on twenty occasions between 1891 and 1935 including eight times in a row between 1891 and 1898, and ten times in eleven years from 1891 to 1901. The record time for the race since 1957 when it was run at 1 1/4 miles is 2:01 4/5 set by Izvestia in 1990. Evolution of Queen's Plate Distances:
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