New York Claiming Championship Series at Aqueduct on Saturday

By NY Hot List staff | March 23, 2023

The New York Claiming Championship series returns for the eighth year on Saturday at Aqueduct Racetrack with six starter allowance events over the main track offering a combined $380,000 in purse money. 

The series is open to horses which meet the starter allowance conditions having run for a designated claiming price in 2022 or 2023. The six-race series, each named after some of the most popular claiming horses to run at the Big A, features races at distances ranging from six furlongs to 1 3/8 miles. A total of 57 horses were entered across the six races.

Race 9 is the featured event and is named for Sis City who had a career record of 15: 5-1-2 and earnings of $795,764 while racing from 2004 to 2006. The one-turn mile is a $25,000 starter allowance and carries a purse of $75,000.

Here are the Hot List picks for the Sis City:

The $75,000 Sis City, Aqueduct, Saturday, Race 9.

11) Tough Street has four wins in her last five starts for Chad Brown, all at Aqueduct since October. She won a $25,000 maiden claimer to qualify for this condition. (9) Know It All Audrey was claimed for $16,000 back in September and since then has three wins and three seconds in NY-bred stakes and allowance races. That claiming race made her eligible for this level starter. (6) Movie Moxy was claimed for $25,000 in January and then won a similar starter allowance last month. (1) Dancing Sophia is part of a Chris Englehart entry with Trevor McCarthy named to ride both of them, so one of them will scratch. She won her last two starts at the Big A including a $25,000 claimer from which she was taken.

The rest of the NY Hot List picks and the Special Saturday Pick 3 are available free of charge at this website.