by Mary Eddy
Saturday’s card at Aqueduct Racetrack will feature a Pick 6 carryover of $32,471 after the multi-race wager went unsolved on Friday’s eight-race program.
The $1 Pick 6 returned $1,081 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 winners correctly.
Friday’s sequence began in Race 3 with the Junior Alvarado-piloted Nova Rags [No. 3, $6.30*] taking a six-furlong optional claimer for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott. In Race 4, Manny Franco engineered a winning trip aboard the Christophe Clement-trained Voleuse [No. 8, $3.70*] in a seven-furlong maiden claimer.
Race 5 saw the largest upset in the sequence as apprentice rider Elijah Greenidge guided Prince of Joy [No. 6, $129.50] to victory in a one-mile $12,500 claiming tilt for conditioner Ricardo Legall, giving Greenidge his first career Big A victory.
Rayya Valentine [No. 4, $12.80] followed in Race 6 with a fourth-out graduation in a one-mile maiden with Hall of Famer Javier Castellano in the irons for trainer Chad Summers. In Race 7, Mott scored his second win on the card with the Jose Lezcano-piloted Elysian Meadows [No. 9, $9.80] in a six-furlong optional claimer for New York-breds.
With the carryover already ensured, Clover Street [No. 6, $26.80] captured Race 8, a seven-furlong allowance for New York-bred fillies and mares, with Trevor McCarthy up for trainer Mark Hennig.
Saturday’s Pick 6 begins in Race 5 and features the $500,000 NYSSS Fifth Avenue in Race 8 and the $500,000 Great White Way in Race 9. First post on the 10-race card is 11:50 a.m. Eastern.
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