Horse racing is a sport of dreams — everyone who works in the sport in Canada dreams of winning, or at the very least participating in, the King’s Plate. Article content

For the bigger operations, being in the Plate is usually a given. For smaller stables, the wait can be a lot longer. For John Charalambous, that wait was 43 years. Article content Article content

Charalambous has been a mainstay on the Woodbine backstretch since he started training thoroughbreds in 1982 at the age of 22, but having a Canadian-bred three-year-old good enough to start in Canada’s biggest horse race eluded him.

That changes on Saturday when he sends out Scorching in search of the lion’s share of the $1 million prize. And at 10-1 in the morning line, he’s a contender.

“If this is my first one and only

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