VENUE: 12/1 = Decision Pending

[RUFFIAN]

Another Dastardly Decision
Descends Upon The Cat
Please Opine Your Preference
Of What You Think On That

CHOICE #1
*** AQUEDUCT ***
4 Stakes
Both Juvenile Races Only Have 7
GFW + CIGAR MILE = Have 8

CHOICE #2
*** GULFSTREAM PARK CLAIMING CROWN DAY ***
9 Stakes With FULL Fields

I Know The Choice Is Mine
But Where Others Prefer To Run ~
May Influence My Decision
For Our Greatest Chance Of Fun

So If You Have a Preference
A #1 Or #2 => Please Say
I’ll Post On Thursday Morning
Of Which Track We Shall Play

[JolyB]

I'd like to express a strong preference for the last big Saturday of racing at Aqueduct before winter sets in. We'll have plenty of time to visit Gulfstream during the winter meeting.

Each of the 4 graded stakes races are significant in their respective divisions. The Cigar Mile has earned its Grade 1 status many times over, and the Remsen is the first time that 2 year olds are asked to travel 1 1/8 miles in stakes competition. The Remsen winner almost always is given serious consideration as one of the early Derby prospects.

I acknowledge that the Gulfstream card has named races with purses exceeding $100,000, but as I look at the race conditions, I see a group of what are really Starter Allowance races for horses that have run in claiming races of a certain level during the year. While I respect these hardknocking claimers, I'd much rather handicap the graded stakes in the North.

[Roamin42]

What I prefer is what JolyB suggests is fine with me. Of course I am predjudice being from the North.

[DonGuido]

What they said!

[cal828]

Aqueduct fine with me.