The first winner of the C$1 million King’s Plate in the reign of Charles III turned out to be the aptly-named Paramount Prince, who used his speed to rule the classic from the start.

A pair of rich turf stakes with possible Breeders’ Cup implications served as the highlights of an action-packed Saturday afternoon at Woodbine.

For the fifth time in the last dozen years, a filly defeated males in the Queen’s Plate S., with Moira claiming top honors in record-setting fashion.

Favorites were overturned in the three Woodbine turf stakes on Queen’s Plate Day, culminating in Silent Poet’s upstaging of odds-on Caravel in the $308,458 Highlander (G1).