Entries are now available for both the Aqueduct and Woodbine cards for Saturday. Aqueduct offers a 10 race card that starts at 12:00, while Woodbine has an 11 race card that starts at 1:05, which suggests that they will be finishing under the lights. Both have generally full fields and in some cases overflow fields.
All of the Woodbine races will be on the all weather surface, as their magnificent turf course has closed for the season. Like you, Don, I'm not a big fan of a race card that uses the AW surface exclusively. 6 of the 10 AQ races, including the Red Smith, are scheduled for the turf and have drawn very full fields as it is close to the end of turf racing in the Northeast and this is one last chance for turf runners before shipping South.
Ruffian had cautioned us about her concern of adverse weather. That's always a valid concern, and AQ did take their races off of the turf today, but the forecast between Thursday and Saturday looks promising with generally milder temps. Weather Channel lists following forecast for NYC: Thursday - mostly sunny, high of 51; Friday - cloudy with a slight chance of a shower, high of 55; Saturday - partly to mostly cloudy, high of 46.
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