page_title: Queen's Plate
hierarchical_section_title: Queen's Plate
context_page_description: The Queen's Plate is Canada's oldest Thoroughbred horse race, having been founded in 1860. It is also the oldest continuously run race in North America. It is run at a distance of ​1 ¹⁄₄ miles for a maximum of 17 three-year-old Thoroughbred horses foaled in Canada. The race takes place each summer, in June or July, at Woodbine Racetrack, Etobicoke, Ontario, and is the first race in the Canadian Triple Crown.
  The 2020 event, originally scheduled for June 27, was postponed in April because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. It will be rescheduled later in the year, subject to restrictions and recommendations from public health officials. Woodbine announced that the running of the 2020 Queen's Plate will occur on Saturday September 12, 2020. It is yet to be determined if spectators will be allowed to attend.
context_section_description: The Queen's Plate (named the King's Plate from 1901 to 1952, when the reigning monarch was male) is Canada's oldest Thoroughbred horse race, having been founded in 1860. It is also the oldest continuously run race in North America. It is run at a distance of ​1 ¹⁄₄ miles for a maximum of 17 three-year-old Thoroughbred horses foaled in Canada. The race takes place each summer, in June or July, at Woodbine Racetrack, Etobicoke, Ontario, and is the first race in the Canadian Triple Crown.
  The 2020 event, originally scheduled for June 27, was postponed in April because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. It will be rescheduled later in the year, subject to restrictions and recommendations from public health officials.  Woodbine announced that the running of the 2020 Queen's Plate will occur on Saturday September 12, 2020.  It is yet to be determined if spectators will be allowed to attend.
caption: Norcliffe, painted by Bob Demuyser (1920-2003)
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