Aqueduct Back in Action After Holiday Break

After a holiday break the action returns to Aqueduct on Friday with a nine-race card and a competitive featured race.

The $100,000 Bay Ridge drew a field of 12 state bred fillies and mares that will travel one mile on the main track. The Bill Mott trained Sterling Silver is the 9-5 morning line favorite.

Saturday’s card at the Big A features a pair of stakes—the $150,000 Gravesand and the $100,000 Alex M. Robb. The weekend of racing wraps up on Sunday highlighted by the $150,000 Queen’s County.

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Jockey Junior Alvarado will ride the morning line favorite in Friday’s Bay Ridge, breaking from the 11 post. The mare missed in the Empire Distaff by a tough nose going nine furlongs in her last outing on Oct. 27.

The five-year-old mare is a four-time winner over the Aqueduct main track in 10 trips, with nine in the money finishes.

The Christophe Clement trained Silver Skillet is the 7-2 second choice on the morning line. She was third in the state bred Ticonderoga on turf on Oct. 27. She is a three-time winer on turf, twice on off tracks, and 0 for 3 on fast dirt surfaces in her career.

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Let’s head out to Aqueduct for Friday’s featured race of the day:

Aqueduct Race 8 The Bay Ridge Post time 3:35 ET

1 Stonewall Star 8-1

11 Sterling Silver 9-5

6 Silver Skillet 7-2

8 Cruise to Catalina 6-1

Stonewall Star

This mare is back with New York breds after stumbling coming out of the gate in the Go For Wand (G3). She spotted the field about five lengths and was never involved. Two back on turf she was a decent fourth in the Ticonderoga, beaten 1 ¼ lengths.

That race has produced a couple of next out winners. Earlier this year she won the state bred Bioggio’s Rose at this distance here and then ran second in the Mount Vernon. She has won 4 of her 8 trips over the Big A main track and is much better than she showed last out. Looking for her to bounce back with a much better effort for De Paz and she picks up Davis in the irons. Decent value if we catch most of the 8-1 morning line.

Sterling Silver

The Mott trainee is the logical one to beat here but is going to end up a light price. She was not off cleanly last out in the Empire Classic and came with a game effort in the stretch to come up just a nose shy of getting to Venti Valentine, a seven-time stakes winner.

Two back in the slop she was third in the 6 ½ furlong Gallant Bloom (G2). The runner up Nic’s Style won stakes in her next two starts. Our second choice won the Johnstone Mile three back at a mile at Saratoga. She will appreciate the cut back from nine furlongs.

Silver Skillet

The Clement trainee has run on turf in her last four starts and has four wins on grass and two on wet tracks. She set the early fractions in the Ticonderoga before getting outfinished late in a third-place finish, beaten a length. She won the off the turf Mount Vernon back in June at a mile in the mud at the Spa. She will be forwardly placed with Kendrick up.