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Aqueduct Winter Meet
December 12 – March 29
With 45 stakes races on offer, the winter meet begins Thursday, December 12 and continues through Sunday, March 29. January will feature 17 dates with live racing generally conducted Thursday through Sunday with the exception of New Year's Day, a Wednesday card highlighted by the $150,000 Jerome for freshly minted 3-year-olds, as part of New York's road to the Kentucky Derby. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday card, marking the birthday of the late civil rights leader, is slated for Monday, January 20 and features the $100,000 Interborough for fillies and mares 4-years-old and up. There will be no live racing on Thursday, January 2 and Thursday, January 16 to accommodate the special holiday cards.
The February racing calendar will also include 17 dates with live racing generally conducted Thursday through Sunday with the exception of the special Presidents’ Day card on Monday, February 17. The graded stakes action will kick off on February 1 with the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers, the second race on New York’s road to the Kentucky Derby. There will be no live racing on Thursday, February 13 to accommodate the Presidents' Day card.
A total of 13 racing cards are set for March, which will see live racing conducted Friday through Sunday. Saturday, March 7 will feature four stakes, including two graded. The centerpiece is another Derby prep, the Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham, that will see sophomores run at one mile at the Big A with 50-20-10-5 qualifying points up for grabs. The packed card also includes the Grade 3, $200,000 Tom Fool Handicap for 4-year-olds and up going six furlongs; the $250,000 Busher Invitational for 3-year-old fillies; and the $125,000 Stymie for 4-year-olds and up.
Aqueduct Spring Meet
April 2 - 19
The 13-day meet, highlighted by the Wood Memorial on April 4, will commence on Thursday, April 2 and conclude on Sunday, April 19.
The spring meet will feature 15 stakes, including six graded contests, worth a collective $3.1 million.
Five of those graded stakes will be part of a loaded Wood Memorial Day card on Saturday, April 4, highlighted by the 96th running of the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial for 3-year-olds that offers 100-40-20-10 qualifying points to the Kentucky Derby. The undercard will include the Grade 1, $400,000 Carter Handicap for 4-year-olds and up, the Grade 2, $300,000 Gazelle for 3-year-old fillies, the Grade 3, $250,000 Bay Shore for 3-year-olds and the Grade 3, $150,000 Excelsior for 4-year-oldsd and up.
The first graded stakes for the meet will come with the Grade 3, $150,000 Distaff, a handicap for fillies and mares 4-years-old and up going seven furlongs, on April 3.
There will be no live racing on Easter Sunday, April 12. The meet's final week, which starts on April 15, will offer five stakes, starting with the $100,000 Mizdirection for 3-year-old fillies on turf on Friday, April 17. Two stakes the following day will see sophomores going 1 1/16 miles on turf in the $100,000 Woodhaven and 3-year-old fillies in a 6 ½-furlong sprint in the New York Stallion Stakes Series Park Avenue for 3-year-old filly state-breds.
Closing Day, April 19, will see 3-year-old fillies going 1 1/16 miles on turf in the $100,000 Memories of Silver and state-bred 3-year-olds competing at 6 ½ furlongs in the $200,000 NYSSS Memories of Silver.
Wood Memorial Day
April 4
Wood Memorial Day card on Saturday, April 4, highlighted by the 96th running of the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial for 3-year-olds that offers 100-40-20-10 qualifying points to the Kentucky Derby. The under card will include the Grade 1, $400,000 Carter Handicap for 4-year-olds and up, the Grade 2, $300,000 Gazelle for 3-year-old fillies, the Grade 3, $250,000 Bay Shore for 3-year-olds and the Grade 3, $150,000 Excelsior for 4-year-olds and up.