The Queen’s Plate is the prime source of greatness, present and future, which no other race achieves.
Like recent winners Futura, Legislate, Variety Club, Pocket Power, Jet Master, Yard Arm, Winter Solstice, Trademark, London News – all subsequently voted Horse of the Year.
Among them Jet Master – multiple champion sire, and his son Pocket Power, the winningest of them all with four Queen’s Plates.
And Variety Club, the highest rated internationally, at Timeform 131.
Sporting Post is the prime source of ratings – giving a perspective of what it took to win the Queen’s Plate.
date |
horse |
AR |
ARlife |
04/01/1997 |
London News |
115 |
117 |
03/01/1998 |
Divine Force |
111 |
111 |
02/01/1999 |
Jet Master |
114 |
128 |
02/01/2000 |
Jet Master |
117 |
128 |
30/12/2000 |
Free My Heart |
114 |
114 |
29/12/2001 |
Trademark |
106 |
108 |
28/12/2002 |
Free My Heart |
106 |
114 |
13/03/2004 |
Yard-Arm |
105 |
116 |
01/01/2005 |
Winter Solstice |
103 |
104 |
01/01/2006 |
Winter Solstice |
103 |
104 |
30/12/2006 |
Pocket Power |
100 |
116 |
29/12/2007 |
Pocket Power |
109 |
116 |
10/01/2009 |
Pocket Power |
108 |
116 |
09/01/2010 |
Pocket Power |
110 |
116 |
08/01/2011 |
Mother Russia |
106 |
108 |
07/01/2012 |
Gimmethegreenlight |
110 |
112 |
12/01/2013 |
Variety Club |
117 |
131 |
11/01/2014 |
Capetown Noir |
112 |
112 |
10/01/2015 |
Futura |
105 |
117 |
09/01/2016 |
Legal Eagle |
113 |
116 |