NYRA sets winter meet stakes schedule
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The New York Racing Association on Monday announced the stakes schedule for the 2015 winter meet at Aqueduct, with 23 stakes worth more than $3 million as well as the inaugural running of the New York Claiming Championship Series scheduled for March 21. The winter meet, which runs through March 22, features five graded stakes, including a trio of important events around two turns for newly minted three-year-olds: the Grade 2, $200,000 Jerome at one mile and 70 yards on January 3; the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers at 1 1/16 miles on February 7; and the Grade 3, $400,000 Gotham, also at 1 1/16 miles, on March 7. Rounding out the graded stakes are the Grade 3, $150,000 Toboggan on February 7 and the Grade 3, $200,000 Tom Fool Handicap on March 7, both at six furlongs. New to the winter schedule is the New York Claiming Championship Series, which will feature a number of lucrative starter allowance races in different categories for the blue-collar horses who comprise the backbone of winter racing at the Big A.
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"The inaugural New York Claiming Championship Series gives those horses who
have run at Aqueduct during the winter months their chance to shine on a
prominent day of racing," said Martin Panza, Senior Vice President of Racing
Operations for the New York Racing Association. "The Claiming Crown (currently
run at Gulfstream Park in December) has been very successful, and we anticipate
a great day of championship racing for our claiming horses and an enthusiastic
crowd of their loyal followers for this new event."
The New Year begins with a quartet of stakes: the $100,000 Affectionately for
fillies and mares on January 1, the $100,000 Fred "Cappy" Capossela for
three-year-old sprinters on January 2, the aforementioned Jerome on January 3,
and the $100,000 Ruthless for three-year-old filly sprinters on January 4.
Also on the schedule are four six-furlong stakes for New York-breds: the
$100,000 Hollie Hughes on January 18, the $125,000 Rego Park for three-year-olds
on January 24, the $125,000 Franklin Square for three-year-old fillies on
February 1, and the $100,000 Broadway for fillies and mares on February 14.
The winter meet concludes on March 22 with the $100,000 Stymie at 1 1/8
miles.
The stakes schedule for Aqueduct's spring meet, highlighted by the Grade 1,
$1 million Wood Memorial and the Grade 1, $400,000 Carter Handicap, will be
announced in the coming days.
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