This week in horse racing: Aqueduct, Del Mar usher in December
Aqueduct and Del Mar are hosting Grade 1 stakes races this weekend. December will build to a crescendo on Dec. 26 with the Classic Meet at Santa Anita and the Championship Meet in Gulfstream Park. The Cigar Mile features Blue Grass winner Zandon and Florida Derby winner White Abarrio. The Hollywood Derby and Matriarch Stakes are expected to lure top contenders from both coasts.
After Churchill Downs' fall meet, the racing scene has shifted to Turfway Park. Del Mar will have a mandatory payout in its Pick 6 wager on Sunday's closing-day card. Two-year-olds are featured Saturday at Laurel Park with the Maryland Juvenile Fillies Championship and the Maryland Futurity. The road to the Tampa Bay Derby begins locally with Inaugural Stakes.
Flavien Prat and Phil D’Amato's jockey-trainer team went 4-for-7 last week at Del Mar. They team just once on the card, in the Race 1 opener on Friday.
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