Toboggan tops Saturday card at Aqueduct

By NY Hot List Staff | Friday, January 27, 2023

While the attention of the racing world on Saturday will be focused on Gulfstream Park and the Pegasus World Cup stakes, at significantly chillier Aqueduct older sprinters will be in the spotlight in the form of the Grade 3 Toboggan Stakes. The seven-furlong sprint stakes attracted a competitive field of nine and figures to produce the kind of fractions that should add some heat to a January afternoon in the Big Apple.

Here’s the Hot List picks for the $150,000 Toboggan (G3):

Aqueduct, Saturday, Race 7

(3) Drafted won the Gravesend last time after a short layoff with a closing move. The David Duggan runner won the Toboggan last year and the Runhappy (G3) at Belmont Park in May and has run exclusively in stakes during that time. The 9-year-old has 10 career wins with two of them going seven furlongs. (6) Repo Rocks won his last two starts in stakes at Parx for trainer Jamie Ness. He was second in this race last year. (8) Little Vic was second behind Drafted in the Toboggan beaten by just a nose after winning a seven-furlong stake at Laurel. Blinkers go on for the first time. (7) Milton the Monster was claimed from a win for $62,500 by Tom Morley who brought him right back to win a rare N3X allowance race by more than two lengths. Both of those victories were at seven furlongs.

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