ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Sid Attard has won a number of big races at Woodbine in his career, including the Grade 1 Atto Mile with Numerous Times in 2001 and the Grade 1 Northern Dancer Turf Stakes with Interpol in 2015. The one race that has eluded Attard so far is the Queen’s Plate, but the Canadian Hall of Fame trainer is back on the trail this year with contenders Dotted Line and Olliemyboy. Attard has started seven horses in the Queen’s Plate, with his best finish coming in 1992 when Grand Hooley finished second to Alydeed. Attard also has recorded third-place finishes in the Queen’s Plate twice, with Jiggs Coz in 2007 and All On Red in 2016. This season, Dotted Line appears to be rounding into top form at the right time, with the $1 million Queen’s Plate coming up on Sept. 12 at Woodbine. :: 2020 Queen's Plate: Get odds, comments, analysis, and news for the 161st running of the Queen's Plate at Woodbine on Saturday, Sept. 12 A multiple stakes winner as a 2-year-old last season, Dotted Line started his 3-year-old campaign with a fifth-place finish in the Queenston Stakes over seven furlongs on Tapeta on July 4. Attard said Dotted Line entered the Queenston off of just two works following an issue over the winter with his feet. “His feet were so short and they wouldn’t grow,” he said. “They’ve grown a bit now, and his feet are 100 percent. It was slow to bring him around. We couldn’t work him. We worked him twice and then we ran him seven-eighths. He didn’t run too bad at all.” Following the Queenston, Dotted Line improved in his next start while stretching out around two turns in the Grade 3 Marine Stakes over 1 1/16 miles on July 25. Dotted Line had a slow start in the Marine, but still finished third behind Shirl’s Speight, who will make his next start in the Kentucky Derby on Sept. 5 at Churchill Downs. Attard believes Dotted Line could have placed higher in the race with a better start. “He was beating one horse and he came running,” Attard said. “If he broke good, he would have finished second that day, I think.” Most recently, Dotted Line finished a close third behind Clayton and Halo Again in the Plate Trial Stakes over 1 1/8 miles on Aug. 15. Dotted Line set the pace before losing a tight stretch battle between the three horses, but his effort impressed Attard. “I like the way he ran in the Plate Trial, and he’s doing really good,” Attard said. “He likes to be up there. He’s a very gutsy horse. He keeps trying until the finish line. We like him a lot.” Attard said the postponement of the Queen’s Plate to Sept. 12 and the later start to the 2020 Woodbine meet due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been of benefit to Dotted Line, given the issues with his feet during the winter. “We were worried,” he said. “We were hoping he’d come around quick. Now, I really believe he’s in good shape. We were just waiting for his feet to grow. That’s what was holding us up.” :: Click to learn about our DRF's Free Past Performance program. Attard said he also will send out recent maiden winner Olliemyboy in the Queen’s Plate. The son of Union Rags appears to have no issue with distance following a going-away maiden victory over older horses at 1 1/8 miles on Aug. 1, which was just his second start in Attard’s barn. Olliemyboy made his debut with trainer Arnaud Delacour on March 14 at Tampa Bay Downs in a seven-furlong maiden race on dirt. He made his next start three months later on June 13 at Woodbine, finishing seventh in another seven-furlong maiden race. Following that race, he moved to Attard’s barn and finished second in his first two-turn start on July 11. In his maiden win, Olliemyboy closed from well off of a quick pace to win by two lengths under jockey Patrick Husbands. Olliemyboy returned to the work tab on Aug. 15, when he breezed five furlongs in 1:00.80 on the dirt training track. He also recorded a bullet work Aug. 22, covering five furlongs in 1:01. “He’s been working every Saturday,” Attard said. “He’s been doing really good.” Should either Dotted Line or Olliemyboy win the Queen’s Plate, it would be another achievement to add to Attard’s accomplished career, which includes more than 2,000 wins, more than 100 stakes victories, and his Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame induction in 2013.