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Penn National Cancels Live Racing January 4th-6th
Penn National Race Course has cancelled live racing beginning today, Thursday, 1/4 through Saturday, 1/6 due to extremely cold temperatures and wind chills forecast throughout the week.
Live racing from Penn National is scheduled to resume on Wednesday, January 10, 2018.
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Monticello Cancels Live Racing For Thursday, January 4th
Due to a winter storm impacting the northeast, Monticello has cancelled live racing for today, Thursday, January 4th
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Freehold Raceway Cancels Live Racing Thursday, January 4th
Freehold Raceway has cancelled live racing for today, Thursday, January 4 due to winter weather.
Live racing is currently scheduled to resume tomorrow, January 5, 2018.
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Absatootly And Quezon Renew Their Rivalry In Saturday’s La Verdad
Newman Racing’s Absatootly and Mac Keller’s Quezon will square off for a fifth consecutive race as part of a field of six older New York-bred fillies and mares in the first running of the $100,000 La Verdad at seven furlongs Saturday at Aqueduct Racetrack.
The first stakes race of the year on the New York Racing Association circuit will feature Absatootly looking to build on a third-place finish in the Garland of Roses on December 9 at the Big A, which Quezon won by three-quarters of a length. That marked the fifth time in seven stakes starts that Absatootly finished on the board last year, including a half-length score over Quezon in the Iroquois on October 21 at Belmont Park.
Trained by Charlie Baker, Absatootly finished 2017 with Beyer Speed Figures of 80 or better in her last four starts. Jockey Rafael Hernandez will have the call for the first time from post 5.
“She’s been doing good and she finished the year pretty well, so we’re just hoping to see some the same things from her heading into this year,” Baker said.
Quezon rallied from last in the Garland of Roses to register her only stakes win of 2017 in five attempts, including a third-place effort in the Grade 3 Vagrancy on May 5 at Belmont.
The 6-year-old Tiz Wonderful mare earned a personal-best 97 Beyer for running second in the Iroquois, which came one start after running third in the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom on September 24.
Quezon is 6-6-2 in 17 career starts. The Bobby Ribaudo trainee drew the outside post with Joe Rocco, Jr. aboard.
Frosty Margarita will return to stakes company after running sixth in an optional claimer on December 10 at Laurel Park. After being stretched out to 1 1/16 miles in that start, the 5-year-old daughter...
YONKERS BEGINS ’18 SEASON WITH ‘FRENCH’ SUNDAY, ‘NEW YORK, NEW YORK DOUBLE’
Yonkers Raceway begins its 238-program, 2018 live season this Sunday (Jan. 7th), with a dozen-race matinee and a first post of 11:30 AM.
Races 2 ($50,000 Open Handicap, post time 12:15 PM) through 8 (post time 3:15 PM) go as overflow-field, added-distance ‘French’ trots. Final race post time is 4:35 PM.
Note that the sequence for Sunday’s ‘New York, New York Double,’ featuring one race from Aqueduct and one race from Yonkers, has not been finalized. Updates, with program pages, shall be sent when available.
Yonkers’ January schedule includes all Sundays (remaining post times TBA), along with Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday evenings (post time 7:10 PM). Again, all dates are pending approval of the New York State Gaming Commission.
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(FFI…Frank Drucker, Yonkers Raceway Publicity Director, 914-968-4200)
BY FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
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