MiamiScreamingEagles
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Sunday, April 28, 2024
Aqueduct (New York):
Finger Lakes (New York):
Aqueduct (New York):
- Closing Day of the 16-event Meet: Onto.... Aqueduct or the revamped Belmont at Big A meet.
- Aqueduct's "Belmont at Big A" Spring/Summer Meet runs May 2 - July 7 but will be closed May 28 - June 13.
- There will be no racing at any NYRA track (Aqueduct, Saratoga or Belmont) from May 28 - June 5.
- Saratoga's 4-Day Belmont Meet runs June 6 - June 9.
- NYRA tracks will be dark June 10 - June 13, the latter date when Aqueduct re-opens.
- Saratoga opens its annual Summer Meet July 11.
- Belmont is currently undergoing a massive construction project and will not race in 2024.
- Race 5: The $.50 Pick paid $34. That is as low as I recall.
- Races 6 through 8: Tyler Gaffalione and Flavien Prat, who excel elsewhere throughout America but ride infrequently at Aqueduct, were the winning riders.
- Race 6: Sweet Rebecca (Tyler Gaffalione/Chad Brown) won the feature race. Gaffalione had just one other mount this meet.
- Races 7 and 8: Flavien Prat was the winning rider both times, a rare time for him as well at Aqueduct. He was 3-for-7 at this meet.
- Leading jockey: Manny Franco with 28 wins. It was the 11th riding title for Franco at a NYRA meet.
- Leading Trainer: Linda Rice with 18 wins. Rice celebrated her 15th training title at a NYRA meeting and her seventh of the past eight NYRA meets,
- Race 2: Dollar Liberty (Cipriano Gil/Nader Moubarak) won at 42-to-1, the rider picking up the mount earlier in the day. Gil began riding in the US last year and never away from Gulfstream. Moubarak is also in his second year in the US.
- Race 5: The $.50 Pick 5 paid an enormous $122,000+.
- Race 10: The $.20 Pick 6 paid a gigantic $90,000.
- Sahin Civaci rode three winners for the second straight day.
Finger Lakes (New York):
- Opening Day: Closing day is November 27. Finger Lakes, not part of the three-track NYRA circuit in New York, usually runs early in the week.
