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American horse racing fans and sports bettors will enjoy wagering on and watching the live racing experience at Woodbine Racetrack and Woodbine Mohawk Park, respectively.”.

INTRODUCING THE QUEEN’S PLATE @ HOME

Building new traditions for one of Canada’s oldest traditions and most prestigious events

TORONTO, August 20, 2020 – Woodbine Entertainment is excited to share its plans for the 161^st Queen’s Plate that will bring one of Canada’s most prestigious events and storied traditions directly to fans like never before.

Viewers across Canada have been joining in on RACING NIGHT LIVE action and wagering on live races through Woodbine’s new easy-to-use horse racing app Dark Horse. Broadcasts have also featured a slate of performances from top Canadian musical artists. Woodbine racecourse is Canada's leading track and has both turf and Tapeta surfaces. The main course is turf course is a 12-furlong oval with a chute of 1m1f. The distance from the home turn to the finish line is 1400ft and the home straight is 100ft wide. History of Woodbine Horse Racing Woodbine has been the name of a race track in Toronto since 1874, though the current location of the racecourse is nowhere near where the original was. The name was transferred to the new track in 1956 and is a combined Thoroughbred and Standardbred race track, which is mostly a result of the closure of. The Dark Horse app focuses on the wagering portion of the horse races. Woodbine Mohawk Park Welcomes Locals; Individuals interested in the two hours of entertainment every Friday will also enjoy the live performances happening on the premises of the two racetracks. Jim Lawson, Chief Executive Officer of Woodbine Entertainment, pointed out that.

The digital-first experience will largely live on Woodbine Entertainment’s Instagram channel @WoodbineTB and will feature content anchored in the event’s longstanding traditions of fashion, gourmet food, music, wagering and world-class Thoroughbred racing.

Kicking off at Noon ET on Saturday, September 12, The Queen’s Plate @ Home will engage with fans from coast-to-coast and culminate with the live broadcast of The $1 million Queen’s Plate at 4:30 p.m. ET on TSN and CTV.

To help bring the experience to fans at home, Woodbine Entertainment has partnered with a stable of multi-platform content creators, celebrities and musicians, who will contribute unique #QueensPlate inspired content throughout the day.

North America’s longest continually run stakes race is for three-year-old Thoroughbreds foaled in Canada and is the first jewel of the OLG Canadian Triple Crown. The event was originally scheduled for June 27 prior to being postponed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to ongoing health and safety precautions regarding COVID-19, Woodbine Entertainment has made the decision not to open The Queen’s Plate to the general public. All ticket purchasers will be provided with a full refund through Ticketmaster.

“We are very much looking forward to creating new traditions with our fans for an event that is already steeped in tradition and has a history dating back to 1860,” said Jim Lawson, CEO, Woodbine Entertainment. “While it’s unfortunate we can’t welcome patrons in our stands this year, we are inviting Canadians to experience The Queen’s Plate safely from home with family and friends in their bubble.”

The Queen’s Plate @ Home will be hosted on Instagram by The Social’s Melissa Grelo and will lead into the national broadcast of the 161^st running of The Queen’s Plate on TSN and CTV. The networks’ coverage is hosted by TSN’s Brian Williams, alongside Laura Diakun and Jason Portuondo at the Racing Night Live desk, and reporters Brodie Lawson and Chad Rozema.

“The world has seen so many challenges in 161 years and the Queen’s Plate has persevered through all of them,” said Grelo. “I’m excited to enjoy and share the race with fans in a new and exciting way this year!”

Fans enjoying the Queen’s Plate @ Home will also have the opportunity to enhance their experience with Woodbine’s new horse racing app, Dark Horse. Built for the next generation of horse racing fans, Dark Horse uses artificial intelligence to simplify the experience for the new player.

“Easy to use and a ton of fun, I would highly recommend Dark Horse to sports bettors or casual fans looking to get their feet wet with wagering on horse racing,” said Portuondo, Host/Analyst, Woodbine Entertainment. “Especially with the Derby and The Queen’s Plate coming up, it’s time to download the app and start playing!”

Dark Horse is available in the Canadian Apple app store or can be downloaded at playdarkhorse.com.

For the latest information about QP @ Home, fans should follow @WoodbineTB on Instagram and visit QueensPlate.com.

The app uses artificial intelligence to do the handicapping for the users, which WEG is hoping will be a boon to less experienced bettors.

by Dave Briggs

The Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) is planning to celebrate the return of live racing with the launch of a new betting app it thinks will be a game changer.

Dark Horse is an app that employs artificial intelligence to handicap races for the users.

“No one has done anything like this,” said WEG CEO Jim Lawson. “Racetracks have often offered handicapping tools and prediction tools, but we’re taking it to a whole new level with artificial intelligence. We use the artificial intelligence to parse through past performances to determine probable outcomes. This really mimics the algorithms the computer bettors are using.”

Lawson said he hopes one of the benefits is giving smaller bettors the chance to compete with bigger punters using advanced computer systems.

“It’s an amazing product. We’ve eliminated the complication. We’ve cut right through the betting process and it’s pretty fun and engaging because you’re seeing all these different bets and bet packages. It’s actually an amazing product,” Lawson said. “The win percentage is incredibly high…. We’ve got our fingers crossed that people start to use it.”

Lawson said the app will have a soft launch this week. The Android version of the app is available and WEG is hoping the app to be approved by Apple in time for a hard launch in conjunction with the return of racing on June 5. More information is available at www.playdarkhorse.com.

“What you’ll see on Dark Horse, based on all this artificial intelligence, is we will produce wagering and betting packages saying, ‘What’s your risk?’ or ‘How do you want to do it?’ These bet packages almost propose fixed odds, although it’s pari-mutuel. We give an expected payout in real time, showing what all these different formulas and betting packages and what we can do. Then you can choose the level of risk, based on the liquidity in the pool. And it parses through the card daily, in terms of the North American cards. It’s done separately for A-level tracks, B-level tracks and maiden races. So there’s three different theoretical models for how it comes up with the information,” Lawson said.

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“I hope it’s successful for us given all the money we’ve invested in it, but I hope it’s successful for this industry. It could be revolutionary in terms of people having fun and going onto the phone and doing these bets. You can watch the race and this artificial intelligence calculates the outcomes for you and it’s really quite an amazing thing.”

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