Aqueduct: Grade 2 Cigar Mile; Full Card Slections

By Rick Francis —-

Saturday’s signature race from Aqueduct is the Grade 2 Cigar Mile Handicap named for the legendary gelding who won 16 straight contests each at racing’s highest levels. There are and will be great racehorses but none more than the “Incomparable” Cigar.

Cigar wins the 1995 Breeders’ Cup Classic to complete a perfect 10-for-10 season. (Blood-Horse Library/Skip Dickstein)
AQUEDUCT

Race 9) STAKES. 1 Mile Dirt. Purse $500,000. Cigar Mile H. Presented by Twinspires.com. A HANDICAP FOR THREE YEAR OLDS AND UPWARD

11) Post Time (Russell/Russell)
3) Repo Rocks (Ness/Silverado)
5) Mulliken (Brisset/Prat)
1) Book’em Danno (Ryan/Ortiz, I)
9) Senor Buscadador (Fincher/Rosario)

Race 1) ALLOWANCE OPTIONAL CLAIMING. 1 Mile Dirt. Purse $85,000. FOR FILLIES AND MARES THREE YEARS OLD AND UPWARD FOALED IN NEW YORK

4) Call Her Bluff
3) Malu
2) Munny Grab

Race 2) MAIDEN CLAIMING. 7 Furlongs Dirt. Purse $45,000. FOR MAIDENS, TWO YEARS OLD FOALED IN NEW YORK

11) Trinity River
5) Solar Glare
1) Total Silence
4) Monte Avi

Race 3) MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT. 1 Mile Dirt. Purse $90,000. (UP TO $15,660 NYSBFOA) FOR MAIDENS, TWO YEARS OLD

7) Treaty of Rome
5) Take Home the Cup
9) Timely Decision
8) Radauti
3) Snookie Bear

Race 4) STAKES. 1 Mile Dirt. Purse $200,000. Go for Wand S.. FOR FILLIES AND MARES THREE YEARS OLD AND UPWARD

3) Occult (Brown/Ortiz, I)
8) Shidabhuti (Brown/Davis)
7) Ain’t Broke (Rice/Cancel)
5) Comparative (Cox/Franco)

Race 5) ALLOWANCE. 6 Furlongs Dirt. Purse $80,000. FOR FILLIES AND MARES THREE YEARS OLD AND UPWARD FOALED IN NEW YORK

2) First Class
3) Swappin Buttons
5) Al’s Ruby
10) Hyponic Flair
7) Peony

Race 6) MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT. 6 Furlongs Dirt. Purse $75,000. FOR MAIDENS, FILLIES TWO YEARS OLD FOALED IN NEW YORK

11) Tale of the Tail
3) Observer
4) Unwoke
7) Currane
8) Tower Twenty Two

Race 7) STAKES. 1 1/8 Miles Dirt. Purse $250,000. Remsen S.. FOR TWO YEAR OLDS.

3) Poster (Harty/Prat)
5) Keewaydin (Brown/Davis)
4) Studlydoright Robb/Perez)
1) Tux Mott/Alvrado

Race 8) STAKES. 1 1/8 Miles Dirt. Purse $250,000. Demoiselle S.. FOR FILLIES TWO YEARS OLD

1) Muhimma (Cox/Geroux)
4) Carmen’s Candy Jar
8) Beauty Reigns
10) Ballerina d’Oro

Race 10) ALLOWANCE. 1 Mile Dirt. Purse $92,000. (UP TO $16,008 NYSBFOA) FOR THREE YEAR OLDS AND UPWARD

11) Iridescent
8) Quick to Accuse
2) Jackson Heights
6) Treaty Obligation