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Approx. Post Time: 11 40 AM (Dec 15)
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by Jenny Kellner
Jockey Jose Ortiz and trainer Rudy Rodriguez wrapped up Aqueduct Racetrack's spring season with their second and third straight individual meet titles, respectively, while Midwest Thoroughbreds emerged as the leading owner for the 19-day run.
Ortiz, who had won the 2015-16 inner track championship, rode 37 winners of more than $2 million for the meet, edging his older brother, runner-up Irad Ortiz, Jr., by eight wins.
Among Jose Ortiz's biggest victories in April were the Grade 3, $300,000 Bay Shore with Unified, the Grade 3, $200,000 Excelsior with Kid Cruz, the Grade 3, $200,000 Top Flight Invitational Handicap with Carrumba, the $100,000 Plenty of Grace aboard Mrs McDougal and the $100,000 Danger's Hour with Macagone.
Rodriguez, who had also won the 2015 Aqueduct fall main track training title in addition to topping the 2015-16 inner track meet trainer standings, saddled 14 winners from 61 starters with earnings of nearly $680,000. Finishing tied for second with 10 winners each were David Jacobson, and Danny Gargan, who was 10-2-1 from 18 starters for a win percentage of 55.56 percent.
Midwest Thoroughbreds had eight winners, with David Jacobson finishing second with seven and Michael Dubb and Mike Repole tied for third with six each.
Thoroughbred action continues on Friday when Belmont Park opens for its 54-day spring/summer meet, highlighted by the three-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival featuring the 148th running of the Grade 1, $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on June 11.
First race post time is 1:30 p.m., with admission gates opening at 11:30 a.m.
Mary Eddy
NY Final Furlong Racing Stable and SunsetRidge Racing Stable’s Stone Smuggler made all the right moves to notch her second career stakes victory in Saturday’s $500,000 Fifth Avenue division of the New York Stallion Stakes Series, a seven-furlong sprint for eligible state-sired juvenile fillies, at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Christian Abdo
Lady Sheila Stable, Net Birdie and Schwing Thoroughbreds’ Sacrosanct became 4-for-4 with three consecutive stakes wins when holding off National Identity by a head in Saturday’s $500,000 Great White Way division of the New York Stallion Stakes Series, a seven-furlong sprint for eligible state-sired juveniles, at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Christian Abdo
Ken Wheeler, Jr.'s New York-bred Kant Hurry Love returned from a nearly six-month layoff to best open company and notch her third career stakes win in Sunday’s $135,000 Garland of Roses, a six-furlong sprint for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up, at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Brian Bohl
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Walmac Farm’s Locked rewarded his post-time favoritism, overtaking fellow Grade 1-winner Mullikin with a stretch-drive move from the far outside and powering to a 1 1/2-length win in Saturday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Cigar Mile presented by TwinSpires at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Keith McCalmont
Shadwell Stable’s Muhimma made her stakes debut a winning one with a gate-to-wire score in Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Demoiselle, a nine-furlong route for juvenile fillies, at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Brian Bohl
The 111th running of Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Remsen saw a convergence of a jockey in his prime and his horse at the outset of what could be a potential stellar career, with Flavien Prat registering his 80th stakes win of 2024 to set the single-season stakes record in guiding Poster to a victory by a nose in the 1 1/8-mile contest for 2-year-olds at Aqueduct Racetrack.
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