The Queen's Plate and Online Gambling

Published: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Online-Casinos.com

Canada has a great series of horse racing coming up in the following few months. The Queen's Plate was inaugurated, with royal blessing, on Wednesday, June 27, 1860, at the Carleton track in Toronto.

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. The other gems in the Crown are the Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie followed by the Breeders' Stakes at Woodbine. The 150th running of the Queen's Plate will be on Sunday June 21, 2009 for three year olds foaled in Canada, for a distance of one mile and two furlongs (1 1/4 miles) on a Polytrack at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto.

Established in 1959, the series is unique in that it shares the same distances as its American counterpart, but is contested on three different race surfaces. Polytrack ,which is a combination crushed limestone and synthetic materials, dirt for the Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie and at the Breeders' Stakes the E. P. Taylor Turf Course again at Woodbine. Only seven horses have won the Canadian Triple Crown in it's long history. All of the races in both series are open to geldings, which differs from the situation in Europe, where many important flat races, notably the British and French classics, bar geldings.

Online gambling sites have started to buzz with the anticipated volume for this years running of Canada's Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. Details on the history and the possible odds for the horses running at the Queen's Plate have begun to surface. It's a fascinating way to have fun wagering online and researching the choices. Thoroughbred Horse Racing has a lot of punters chomping at the bit waiting for post time.