TORONTO, Canada, CMC—The storied million-dollar King’s Plate and Woodbine Mile will once more headline the brand new Woodbine season, which begins on April 27.
Within the stakes schedule introduced Wednesday, the one hundred and sixty fifth working of the King’s Plate will probably be staged on August 17, whereas the Woodbine Mile, a Breeders’ Cup Problem Sequence “Win and You’re In,” will run off on August 28.
For the brand new season, the 2 races will probably be amongst 38 graded stakes, together with 4 Grade 1 occasions.
“It’s thrilling to have the dates locked and begin working in the direction of our main occasions,” stated Woodbine’s vice-president of Thoroughbred Racing, Tim Lawson.
“We’re pleased with our whole stakes program and searching ahead to what 2024 brings.”
The King’s Plate, received final yr by Paramount Prince with veteran Barbadian Patrick Husbands aboard, may also launch the Triple Crown, with the $400 000 Prince of Wales Stakes on September 10 and the $400 000 Breeders’ Stakes on September 29, the remaining legs.
Lower than two hours outdoors of Toronto, Fort Erie will stage the Prince of Wales Stakes.
Husbands will chase a record-equalling fourth King’s Plate this season, following earlier victories with Wando in 2002 and Lexie Lou in 2014.
In the meantime, the Woodbine Mile will headline Canada’s most profitable day of horse racing as one in all 4 Grade 1 occasions scheduled for September 14.
The Woodbine Mile, received final yr by Godolphin’s Grasp of the Seas, will probably be run on the identical card because the $750 000 E.P. Taylor Stakes, the $500 000 Natalma Stakes, and the $500 000 Summer time Stakes.
Woodbine may also host one other cash-rich day of racing on June 29, with the Canada Day Racing Pageant fielding a program comprising the $200 000 Grade 2 Highlander Stakes and $175 000 Grade 2 Nassau Stakes, together with the Dominion Day Stakes, Selene Stakes, and Marine Stakes—all Grade 3, $150 000 occasions.
The half-million greenback Woodbine Oaks on July 20 will act as the primary leg of the Triple Tiara, that includes the $250 000 Bison Metropolis Stakes on August 10 and the $150 000 Marvel The place Stakes on September 8.
Some 129 race days have been scheduled for the upcoming season, which wraps December 15.
Final season, the 50-year-old Husbands completed sixth within the Woodbine jockey standings with 62 wins, as Kazushi Kimura took the title with 161 wins.
Barbadians Keveh Nicholls, Rico Walcott, Juan Crawford, and Jason Hoyte have been all a part of the Woodbine colony final yr.
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