By Keith McCalmont – NYRA Press Office
OZONE PARK, N.Y.— Friday’s eight-race card at Aqueduct Racetrack will feature an Early Pick 5 carryover of $285,092 and a $1 Pick 6 carryover of $40,771 after the multi-race wagers went unsolved on Sunday’s nine-race program.
Sunday’s $1 Pick 6 returned $13,590 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 correctly.
Zeebear [No. 1, $9.20] made a winning debut to kick off the Sunday card in Race 1, sprinting gate-to-wire in a state-bred maiden claiming tilt for older horses under Jose Lezcano for trainer Linda Rice.
Hypnocurrency [No. 4, $11.60] prevailed in Race 2, a one-turn mile maiden claimer for state-bred sophomore fillies, with Romero Maragh in the irons for trainer James Bentley Begg.
In Race 3, the featured $100,000 Broadway for older state-bred fillies and mares, Funny How [No. 5, $12.60] surged to her first career stakes score, topping a trifecta over the graded-stakes placed duo of runner-up Betsy Blue and third-place Bank Sting. Katie Davis rode Funny How for trainer Ray Handal.
The $1 Pick 6 kicked off in Race 4 – the penultimate leg of the Early Pick 5 – with longshot Papi On Ice [No. 3, $54.50], owned and trained by Randi Persaud, winning a nine-furlong maiden claimer for older horses. The victory provided jockey Amin Castillo his first career win.
Bells On Her Toes [No. 1, $33.60] – one of two horses uncovered in the Early Pick 5 in the five-horse field – posted the upset in Race 5, a six-furlong claiming sprint for older fillies and mares, to secure the Early Pick 5 carryover with Heman Harkie in the irons for Richard Metivier.
The parade of longshots continued in Race 6 as Centavo [No. 3, $37.60] captured the one-mile claiming tilt for older horses with Omar Hernandez Moreno up for owner-trainer Naipaul Chatterpaul.
Rice and Lezcano teamed up again with Ragtime Blues [No. 7, $4.70*] to take Race 7, a six-furlong claiming sprint for older horses, to become the first winning favorite on the card; and was followed by another favorite in Late Night Larry [No. 7, $5.50*], who prevailed in Race 8, a one-mile allowance for older state-bred horses, with Manny Franco up for trainer Brittany Russell.
With the Pick 6 carryover already confirmed, Rice and Lezcano paired up for their third win on the card as Paros [No. 7, $9.70] captured the Race 9 finale, a maiden claiming sprint for sophomores.
Friday’s eight-race card will see the Early Pick 5 carryover kick off in Race 1 at 1:20 p.m. Eastern, while the $1 Pick 6 will begin in Race 3 with a scheduled post time of 2:20 p.m.
