Sedbury’s Ghost wins the Plate Trial under Ryan Munger and is now a big runner for Saturday’s Gr 1 King’s Plate, Canada’s biggest race (Michael Burns/Woodbine)
Ryan Munger is excited to be riding one of the fancied runners in Canada’s biggest race on Saturday at Woodbine, the Gr 1 CA$1 million King’s Plate.
He is aboard Sedburys Ghost, who announced himself as a key contender for The King’s Plate when Ryan partnered him to victory in the $150,000 Plate Trial Stakes on July 20 at Woodbine.
The King’s Plate (known as the Queen’s Plate from 1860 to 1901 and 1952 to 2022) is Canada’s oldest thoroughbred horse race and the oldest continuously run race in North America, having been founded in 1860.
It is run at a distance of 1+1⁄4 miles (2000m) for a maximum of 17 three-year-old thoroughbred horses foaled in Canada.
The race is the first in the Canadian Triple Crown.
Munger said, “”These are the things you live for. You know, I don’t want to tell my grandkids I won a maiden on a Thursday night. I want to tell my grandkids, ‘Hey, I won the Plate!’”
