An overflowing entry box for Canada's most important Thoroughbred race, the $1-million King's Plate, suggests that this year's field of Canadian-bred 3-year-olds is without a standout.
Seventeen horses are expected to be in the starting gate, with two others on the also-eligible list for Sunday's race, the highlight of a 13-race card that begins at 12:25 p.m. ET. The Plate, race 10, is scheduled for 5:39 p.m. ET.
The King's Plate, first run in 1860 and intermittently known as the Queen's Plate, is run on the all-weather Tapeta surface over the classic distance of 1 1/4 miles, with colts and gelding toting 126 pounds. Two fillies who ran one-two in the Woodbine Oaks, Elysian Field and Wickenheiser, are entered and will each carry 121.
Toronto-based racing writer and handicapper Jennifer Morrison joins Ray Paulick on the Friday Show to sort through this year's field for the Plate, and she says the race goes through Kalik, the 3-1 morning line favorite who will be making his first start in Canada and first on Tapeta. Morrison points out that the son of Collected trained by Chad Brown follows the same trail into the Plate that 2021 winner Safe Conduct took for Phil Serpe, racing in the G2 Pennine Ridge and G1 Belmont Derby on turf at Belmont Park before heading north of the border.
Watch this week's episode of The Friday Show below:
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