The Queen's Plate is Canada's oldest thoroughbred horse race.

The Queen's Plate was founded in 1860 by Queen Victoria.

Victoria's son-in-law, The Duke of Argyll, while serving as Governor General of Canada, in 1881 toured Ontario with his wife, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, becoming the first royals to attend the Queen's Plate.

Initiated in 1859 by the then president of the Toronto Turf Club, Sir Casimir Gzowski, a distinguished Polish engineer and ancestor of the popular Canadian broadcaster, Peter Gzowski, the Queen's Plate was inaugurated on June 27, 1860, at the Carleton racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.

Horses owned by Windfields Farm have won the Queen's Plate eleven times, but the most successful was the stable owned by Joseph E. Seagram, a prominent distiller from Waterloo, Ontario.

In 2006, Josie Carroll became the first woman trainer to ever win the Queen's Plate.

The future of the Queen's Plate is in doubt.

Nick Eaves, President and CEO of Woodbine Entertainment Group, announced during the 2012 Queen's Plate post position draw that Woodbine Racetrack may be forced to close in April of 2013 due to the cancellation of slot subsidies by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.

Eaves said that if Woodbine is not open, " There won't be a Queen's Plate.

Evolution of Queen's Plate Distances:

After the Belmont, Northern Dancer won Canada's Queen's Plate by seven and a half lengths before tenderness in his left front tendon ended his racing career.

Category: Queen's Plate winners

His dam, Flaming Page, by Bull Page, was a highly successful racemare, winning the 1962 Queen's Plate.

The most famous horse from Canada is generally considered to be Northern Dancer, who after winning the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Queen's Plate in 1964 went on to become the most successful Thoroughbred sire of the 20th century ; his two-minute-flat Derby was the fastest on record until Secretariat in 1973.

Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, home of the Queen's Plate, Canada's premier Thoroughbred stakes race, and the North America Cup, Canada's premier Standardbred stakes race, is the only race track in North America which stages Thoroughbred and Standardbred ( harness ) meetings on the same day.

* Queen's Plate – Thessalon

* Canada – Queen's Plate won by Driving Home

* Canada – Queen's Plate won by Steady Growth

* Canada – Queen's Plate won by Regal Embrace

* Canada – Queen's Plate won by Sound Reason

* Canada – Queen's Plate won by Norcliffe

* Canada – Queen's Plate won by L ' Enjoleur

* Canada – Queen's Plate won by Amber Herod

* Canada – Queen's Plate – Royal Chocolate

* Earliest day on which Queen's Birthday can fall, while June 14 is the latest ; celebrated on the second Monday in June.

* 17 November: Accession Day or Queen's Day, the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne, celebrated with lavish court festivities featuring jousting during her lifetime and as a national holiday for dozens of years after her death.

Similar to the Queen's Official Birthday, the " Fourth of June " is no longer celebrated on 4 June, but on the Wednesday before the first weekend of June.

This is celebrated in honour of the Queen's birthday.

The Queen's arrival was celebrated by the poet William Dunbar in poems including The Thrissil and the Rois, Gladethe, thoue Queyne of Scottis Regioun, and the song Now Fayre, Fayrest of Every Fayre.

Her birthday is celebrated annually as Koninginnedag, Queen's Day.

On 3 October 2010, the show celebrated its 25th anniversary with three productions running in the same city: the original show at the Queen's Theatre in London's West End ; the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary touring production at the original home of the show, the Barbican Centre ; and the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary concert at London's O2 Arena.

The Queen's Official Birthday ( King's Official Birthday in the reign of a male monarch ) is the selected day on which the birthday of the monarch of the Commonwealth realms ( currently Queen Elizabeth II ) is officially celebrated in those countries.

The Queen's Birthday was celebrated in Fiji on 12 June until 2012, when the military government of Commodore Frank Bainimarama announced the holiday would be abolished.

There, the Queen's Official Birthday is now celebrated on the first, second, or third Saturday in June, although it is rarely the third.

In New Zealand, unlike in the United Kingdom, the Queen's Official Birthday is a public holiday and is celebrated in the first Monday in June.

After World War II the British military occupation forces ( Berlin Infantry Brigade ) annually celebrated The Queen's Official Birthday on the Maifeld and used it for a variety of sporting activities including Cricket.

At the opening of the trial on 23 September 1577 there were five counts against him: first, that he had obtained from the Roman See a " faculty " ( or bulla ), containing absolution of the Queen's subjects ; second, that he had published the same at Golden ; third, that he had taught the ecclesiastical authority of the Pope and denied the queen's ecclesiastical supremacy while in prison ; fourth, that he had brought into the kingdom an Agnus Dei and delivered it to Francis Tregian ; fifth, that he had celebrated Mass.

The latter trip was extremely rainy, which led Sir James Clark, the Queen's physician, to recommend Deeside for its more healthy climate.

As has happened with ironic writings before and since, this pamphlet was widely misunderstood but eventually its author was prosecuted for seditious libel and was sentenced to be pilloried, fined 200 marks and detained at the Queen's pleasure.

The Irish public administration and management training centre has its base in Dublin, the Institute of Public Administration provides a range of undergraduate and post graduate awards via the National University of Ireland and in some instances, Queen's University Belfast.

As a colony or other dependent state or territory lacks the authority to vest in a true head of state of its own, it either has no comparable office, simply receiving those roles exercised by the paramount powers ( in person or, most of the time, through an appointed representative, often styled governor or lieutenant-governor, but also various other titles, on the Cook Islands even simply King / Queen's Representative ) or has one, such as a formerly sovereign dynasty, but under a form of metropolitan guardianship, such as protection, vassal or tributary status.

In 1892, Victoria University moved from Cobourg to its current campus on Queen's Park Crescent, south of Bloor Street ( at Charles Street West ), in Toronto.

Aside from its only single, the album also included the song " The March of the Black Queen ", a six-minute epic which lacks a chorus or song structure, bearing similarity to Queen's later work, " Bohemian Rhapsody ".

There are also 40 Queen's Scholars who are pupils at Westminster School ( the School has its own Governing Body ).

When a vacancy arises, the Queen's Commissioner first asks the municipal council for its views as to a successor, then writes to the Minister of the Interior recommending a candidate.

By the 1960s, loyal societies in Canada recognized the Queen's cousin, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, as a " Canadian princess "; but, it was not until October 2002 when the term Canadian Royal Family was first used publicly and officially by one of its members: in a speech to the Nunavut legislature at its opening, Queen Elizabeth II stated: " I am proud to be the first member of the Canadian Royal Family to be greeted in Canada's newest territory.

The Provisional IRA escalated its bombing campaign on England, and Whitelaw was personally embarrassed by the incident wherein a purportedly mentally ill man breached security at Buckingham Palace, gaining access to the Queen's Bedchamber.

The original purpose of Queen's College was to " educate the youth in language, liberal, the divinity, and useful arts and sciences " and for the training of future ministers for the Dutch Reformed Church The college admitted its first students in 1771 — a single sophomore and a handful of first-year students taught by a lone instructor — and granted its first degree in 1774, to Matthew Leydt.

In its early years, due to a lack of funds, Queen's College was closed for two extended periods.

A year after the school was renamed, it received 2 donations from its namesake: a $ 200 bell still hanging from the cupola of Old Queen's and a $ 5, 000 bond which placed the college on sound financial footing.

In Scotland, where the independent Bar is organised as the Faculty of Advocates and its members known not as barristers but as advocates, the position of Queen's Counsel was not recognised before 1868.

* The Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory effected a moratorium on appointment of Queen's Counsel in its own jurisdiction in 1995 in preference to appointing Senior Counsel.

However, the Bill itself did not propose abolishing Queen's Birthday, and was voted down at its first reading.

The other most notable feature of the house is its octagonal ball room added by Sir Thomas Staples ( Queen's Advocate in Ireland ) in about 1830 with its fine restrained neo-classical plasterwork, Dublin chimneypiece and carved door frames.

Queen's University purchased the property with the intention of renovating it to house the Queen's Archives, but the interior of the building was awarded a heritage designation and Queen's lost the ability to renovate the interior and is currently considering its options.

Betfair won its second Queen's Award for Enterprise, this time for International Trade, in April 2008.