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Willie the Kid (foaled 1937 in Ontario) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the eighty-first running of the King’s Plate Canada’s most important race.Bred by Willie Morrissey Willie the Kid got his owner’s nickname. He was out of the mare Mintwina who was also the dam of Morrissey’s Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Bunty Lawless. He was sired by Roselyon who had sired the 1930 King’s Plate winner Aymond.