Woodbine will host both the $150,000 Plate Trial Stakes and the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks Presented by Stella Artois on Sunday as part of an action-packed card that features four stakes races.

America’s Best Racing will help showcase the card with its “Woodbine LIVE!” show Sunday, featuring coverage of the Woodbine Oaks and the Plate Trial. The show will be hosted by ABR’s Alexa Zepp and handicapper J.D. Fox and will also feature special guests with a start time of 4 p.m. ET and will stream on ABR’s Facebook, X, and YouTube channels.

While the Woodbine Oaks is a premier prize in its own right, both races have historically been key steppingstones to the King’s Plate, the first jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown. This year’s Plate Trial Stakes drew a field of 10 Canadian-bred 3-year-olds.

1. Call Me Sue: He was stakes placed at 2 on the all-weather surface at Woodbine and could regain his top form with a return to that surface after racing on dirt and turf in three starts this year. Speed figures indicate he isn’t completely overmatched and the price should be appealing.

JOCKEY: Daisuke Fukumoto; TRAINER: Alexander McPherson

2. Scorching: Overcame a poor start in the Grade 3 HPIbet Marine Stakes June 28 on the all-weather surface at Woodbine with a determined rally to finish second. A talented 3-year-old with tactical speed could be very dangerous in the hands of Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez.

JOCKEY: John Velazquez; TRAINER: John Charalambous

3. Unbridled Weather: Faded late after setting the pace when second against lesser competition June 21 at Woodbine in his first try stretching out in distance. That came in his first start in eight months, however, and he was a stakes winner at 2. Eligible to improve in second start after the long layoff.

JOCKEY: Rafael Hernandez; TRAINER: Angus Buntain

4. Sedburys Ghost: Showed some interest late in the Marine Stakes when rallying from sixth to fourth in his stakes debut and first time stretching out from a sprint to a two-turn race. One of several contenders who could take a step forward … and needs to do just that to be a threat.

JOCKEY: Ryan Munger; TRAINER: Barbara Minshall

5. Regal Guest: Probable pacesetter could not hang on when passed late by Notorious Gangster in the Queenston Stakes June 8 after setting a swift tempo. The extra quarter-mile probably won’t help Regal Guest’s chances to turn the tables on his familiar rival unless he is allowed to coast along unchallenged on the lead.

JOCKEY: Patrick Husbands; TRAINER: Mark Casse

6. Autobahn Ace: First-time gelding ships in from Hastings and will be trying an all-weather surface and two turns for the first time. He has worked well on the Woodbine main track but this is a tough spot for a 3-year-old with only two starts and multiple question marks.

JOCKEY: Jose Campos; TRAINER: Pat Parente

Notorious Gangster (Michael Burns/Woodbine)

7. Watsonville Red: Finished seventh at 58.80-1 odds in the Marine Stakes but was only 2 ½ lengths behind winner Mansetti. Still, he’s tough to endorse with only a maiden win and no other top-three finishes in seven starts.

JOCKEY: Leo Salles; TRAINER: Michael De Paulo

8. Dewolf: A stakes winner on the grass at 2, he also ran second in a pair of two-turn stakes on the all-weather surface at Woodbine in 2024. Finished a well-beaten third in the Queenston Stakes June 8, but that was a sprint and his first race in six months. Tough call on a colt who has lost as the favorite in three of his last four.

JOCKEY: Pietro Moran; TRAINER: Kevin Attard

9. Forty N Five: Unplaced and well-beaten in three previous tries against stakes competition, plus all of his best races to date have come in sprints. Prefer his stablemate one spot to his outside.

JOCKEY: Eswan Flores; TRAINER: Josie Carroll

10. Notorious Gangster: Probable favorite is 3-for-5 on the all-weather surface at Woodbine with a pair of stakes wins, including one at this 1 1/8-mile distance. Enters off a sharp win sprinting in the Queenston Stakes, a race in which he showed more tactical speed that could be very helpful here navigating the outside post in a 10-horse field.

JOCKEY: Fraser Aebly; TRAINER: Josie Carroll

THE PICK: Notorious Gangster

LIVE LONGSHOT: TBD

SUPERFECTA: 10-2-5-3