The Plate: 150 Years of Royal Tradition from Don Juan to Eye of the Leopard

by Beverley Smith and Louis E. Cauz

The Queen's Plate was inaugurated, with royal blessing, on Wednesday, June 27, 1860, at the Carleton track in Toronto, located in bucolic surroundings near what is now the traffic-strangled southwestern corner of Keele and Dundas streets.

There is no reason to believe that Queen Victoria was a wild-eyed devotee of horse racing. However, Her Majesty granted the petition of the little turf club in the boisterous Upper Canada community (the population...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550228943
• ISBN13: 9781550228946
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: ECW Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.6" x 11.4"