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The autumn racing season in New York continues this weekend at Aqueduct with one other extremely playable 10-race program scheduled this Saturday. The 2 characteristic races on the cardboard are turf stakes races, and each the Jockey Membership Oaks and the Knickerbocker Stakes have drawn glorious fields. For this weekend’s winners, let’s decide the highest finishers of those two headline races and we shall be properly on our option to an enormous day on the Large A. Better of luck.
Saturday, Nov. 15
Aqueduct, Race 7, $350,000 Jockey Membership Oaks, submit time 2:39 p.m. ET
An amazing discipline of eight 3-year-old fillies has been assembled for the Grade 3 Jockey Membership Oaks at 1 3/8 miles on the turf. The race drew a discipline that features many of the principals within the division aside from Nitrogen and Lush Lips. #4 Fionn scored a headline win on this summer season’s Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes the place she beat Nitrogen, who went on to complete second within the Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Add that to Fionn’s win in Churchill Downs’ Grade 3 Remorse Stakes at 1 1/8 miles, and in Kentucky Downs’ Grade 3 Blackwood Dueling Grounds Oaks Invitational Stakes at 1 5/16 miles, and you’ve got a filly that’s had one heckuva yr. Each of Fionn’s 2025 losses got here on less-than-firm turf, so if the course is agency this Saturday, she could possibly be powerful to beat. One other main issue on this yr’s 3-year-old filly division on this race is #7 Laurelin, who gained her first 5 lifetime outings together with a win within the Grade 2 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Oaks Invitational Stakes going 1 3/16 miles on Aug. 9. The one factor standing in her manner from an undefeated 3-year-old season was her second-place end final time in Keeneland’s Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Problem Cup Stakes Introduced by Dixiana, and there’s definitely no disgrace in that. The massive weapons are lined up on this race, however there nonetheless looms the opportunity of an upset and that’s due to the presence of #1 Scythian, who’s more likely to slip below the radar at morning-line odds of 8-1. Scythian made her seasonal debut on the principle observe on Aug. 30 after which misplaced her prep for this race final time by a size on account of a brutally dangerous journey. She was the simple winner of final fall’s Grade 2 Miss Grillo Stakes on this course in New York’s premier turf race for 2-year-old fillies, and she or he must be prepared for a return to her finest kind now in her third begin again from the sidelines. If you happen to get an opportunity to get a Invoice Mott-trained horse at value in a race like this, go for it.
The Play: Wager on #1 Scythian (8-1) to win and play her in exacta and trifecta containers with #4 Fionn (2-1), and #7 Laurelin (8-5).
Aqueduct, Race 9, $150,000 Knickerbocker Stakes, submit time 3:39 p.m. ET
The $150,000 Knickerbocker Stakes has drawn a discipline of eight challengers able to go 1 1/8 miles on the turf (plus one main-track-only horse). #3 Trikari was an aesthetic a number of graded stakes profitable turfer as a 3-year-old together with a Grade 1 win at Aqueduct and now he has discovered the precise spot for the breakthrough race of his 4-year-old season. Trikari received a comeback race below his belt off a 3 ½-month layoff with a third-place prep race final time and might rating a knockout vs. this discipline based mostly on his higher efforts. #7 Air Recruit is one other horse due for a return to kind on this race after developing quick final time within the Grade 3 FanDuel TV Mint Tens of millions Invitational Stakes at Kentucky Downs, which is a course some horses deal with, and a few don’t. If you happen to can forgive him for that loss, he seems to have discovered a significantly better spot right here based mostly on his two handsome turf wins this summer season with strong velocity figures, together with the $110,000 Oceanport Stakes at Monmouth Park. One other horse with velocity figures that stack up properly towards this discipline is #4 Ohana Honor, who’s making his third begin of the season after posting good velocity figures within the two latest outings. He maybe would favor extra distance however has proven sufficient means at distances much like this one to provide him an opportunity vs. this discipline.
The Play: Wager on #3 Trikari (4-1) to win and play him in exacta and trifecta containers with #4 Ohana Honor (7-5) and #7 Air Recruit (3-1).
