Bet on Queen's Plate Stakes Online – Odds and Pick

A field of 17 Canadian-foaled 3-year-olds is set to start this year’s race- the largest field in the events history–and all have a chance at winning. However, a select few stand out from the others.

Check Your Soul will be coming out of post 13 and is one of the morning line favorites to win the race at 3-1 odds. Charles Fipke’s homebred thoroughbred has great pedigree, with a bloodline lineage to horse racing greats, Secretariat and General Assembly. The 3-year-old colt’s trainer, Roger L. Attfield has done wonders with Check Your Soul, leading the horse to first place finishes in its last three races.

Queen’splatekitten (7-2) is another favorite in the race and for good reason is garnering a lot of attention from those following this year’s event. The horse has won three of its first five races. His jockey, the rider of Animal Kingdom in the Triple Crown races, John Velasquez, will help the horse’s chances tremendously in the race.

Inglorious (9-2) will come out of postposition nine, dead center of the pack. This could fare well for the horse that likes to ease its way into the finish line before gunning down the leaders during the final stretch. The only mare in the race, Inglorious comes from legendary Donver Stable, and just recently won the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks June 5, when she collared pacesetter Spooky Kitten in deep stretch for the three-quarter-length score.

This would be a fine pick with great odds and a better chance then the horses below her to win the race. Inglorious’ trainer Josie Carroll is one of the best in Canada, and will work well with this kind of horse. Carroll won 26 races last year, and became one of a select few trainers to win both the Oaks and the Queen’s Plate when Inglorious won at Woodbine.

Bowman’s Causeway (6-1) has made a career of taking out some of the best 3-year-olds on the continent, and is a great pick for the Queen’s Plate with his odds. In the Plate Trial, Bowman’s Causeway had the top end speed to nearly catch up to winner and Queen’s Plate favorite Check Your Soul, finishing three and one-quarter lengths behind him.

This horse has gone toe-to-toe with Triple Crown contenders throughout his career, one being Mucho Macho Man when he nearly beat him at Monmouth Park, but ended the race third.

Bowman’s Causeway has all the ability in the world to compete with any horse thrown his way, but has yet to live up to his billing as one of the best second tiered horses in the sport.

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I’m back! It’s a well-known fact of holidays that the hardest part is the return. And the more ‘away’ in nature the holiday, the harder the transition. Even though I’ve been to places much more far flung and exotic than the western US, I’m officially putting camping road trips at the top of my list of ‘hard to return-from’ vacations. Add to that the length of the trip - a full month - and you have something approaching culture shock upon arriving home. I keep finding myself thinking about saving paper garbage for starting the camp fire and waking up at night dreading the need to go out and pee (particularly in camp sites with bear-proof garbage containers). I’m glad to be home, of course . It’s just taking me a little longer than usual to get my tanned and freckled nose back on the grindstone.