Fall Aqueduct Meet to Function 26 Stakes Price $5.33M

The New York Racing Affiliation, Inc. (NYRA) at this time introduced the stakes schedule for the 2024 fall meet at Aqueduct Racetrack, which is able to provide 26 stakes, 9 of them graded occasions, price a complete of $5.33 million.

Following the conclusion of Belmont on the Massive A fall meet which spans Thursday, September 13 by means of Sunday, November 3, the 26-day Aqueduct fall meet will run from Thursday, November 7 by means of Sunday, December 29.

The Aqueduct fall meet will likely be highlighted by the Grade 2, $500,000 Cigar Mile Handicap offered by TwinSpires for 3-year-olds and upward on Saturday, December 7. 

The profitable Cigar Mile Day program co-features the Grade 2, $250,000 Remsen for 2-year-olds going 9 furlongs in addition to the nine-furlong Grade 2, $250,000 Demoiselle for juvenile fillies. Additionally slated for the cardboard is the Grade 3, $200,000 Go for Wand Handicap for fillies and mares 3-years-old and upward touring a one-turn mile over the primary observe.

The stakes motion begins on Friday, November 8 with the Grade 3, $175,000 Pebbles for sophomore fillies going one mile on the turf together with the $150,000 Autumn Days, a six-furlong turf dash for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up.

Stakes motion continues on Saturday, November 9 with the Grade 2, $300,000 Pink Smith for 3-year-olds and upward going 11 furlongs on the grass; the Grade 3, $200,000 Hill Prince at nine-furlongs on turf for sophomores; and the Listed $150,000 Aqueduct Turf Dash Championship for 3-year-olds and up going six-furlongs.

On Sunday, November 10, fillies and mares 3-years-old and upward will contest the Grade 3, $300,000 Lengthy Island going 11 furlongs over the grass whereas fillies and mares 3-years-old and up will contest the $135,000 Perpetually Collectively at 1 1/16-miles on turf.

Stakes motion resumes on Saturday, November 16 with a pair of 2-year-old stakes, together with the Listed $150,000 Central Park at one-mile on turf and the $100,000 Pocket book, a six-furlong main-track dash for New York-breds. The next day, Sunday, November 17, will see the ultimate turf stakes of the meet within the $135,000 Tepin for juvenile fillies touring one mile together with the $100,000 Key Cents at six-furlongs on the primary observe for state-bred juvenile fillies.

Thanksgiving weekend will characteristic a pair of stakes occasions within the Listed $150,000 Fall Highweight Handicap for 3-year-olds and upward going six furlongs on Friday, November 29 and the Grade 3, $200,000 Comely for sophomore fillies going 9 furlongs on Saturday, November 30.

The favored New York Stallion Stakes Collection (NYSSS), open to progeny of eligible New York sires, returns to the Massive A with 4 divisions provided. Saturday, November 23 will characteristic the $125,000 NYSSS Thunder Rumble for 3-year-olds and up sprinting seven furlongs on the primary observe, in addition to the $125,000 NYSSS Staten Island for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up on the identical distance.

The NYSSS returns for a pair of $500,000 stakes for juveniles on Saturday, December 14 with a profitable card that can see eligible New York-sired fillies contest the NYSSS Fifth Avenue at seven furlongs, alongside the NYSSS Nice White Approach going the identical distance.

Following an 11-day break from December 16 to December 26, the stakes schedule concludes with the $100,000 Bay Ridge for New York-bred fillies and mares 3-years-old and up going a one-turn mile on Friday, December 27 in the future earlier than the $100,000 Alex M. Robb for state-breds 3-years-old and up on the identical distance. 

Rounding out the yearly stakes motion are the Listed $150,000 Gravesend for 3-year-olds and upward going six furlongs on Saturday, December 28 and the Listed $150,000 Queens County for 3-year-olds and upward going 9 furlongs on Sunday, December 29. 

For the entire Aqueduct fall meet stakes schedule, please go to https://www.nyra.com/aqueduct/racing/stakes-schedule/.

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