High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The VRC Queens Plate is a thoroughbred 2000 m (mile and a quarter) horse race in Australia, run under weight-for-age conditions. It is held each year in early March on Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The winners list is full of champions of the past, including Gunsynd.It is also a Queen's Plate horse race at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Canada. It is the oldest horse race in North America and the first leg of the Canadian Triple Crown series.