On Saturday at Aqueduct, the featured race is the 145th running of the $200,000 Jerome Stakes. Restricted to three-year-olds, the mile and a seventy yard contest offers Grade 3 status and points towards the Kentucky Derby.
Topping the field of nine sophomores at morning line odds of 2-1 is El Kabeir. Purchased as a yearling by Zayat Stables for $250,000, the gray son of Scat Daddy has won two of his five starts including a win in the Kentucky Jockey Club (G2) at Churchill Downs. Since that winning effort, the colt has been training forwardly for trainer John Terranova. Calvin Borel, aboard last time out, will be back in the irons from the outside post.
Second choice at 7-2 on the morning line is the New York-bred Ostrolenka for trainer Todd Pletcher. A bay son of Musket Man, he was undefeated from three starts against restricted state-bred competition before finishing thirteenth and last in the Remsen (G2). He has been training steadily since that effort in New York and will get a rider change to jockey Jose Ortiz from post position four.
Also in the field at morning line odds of 8-1 is Mini Cosmo for trainer Graham Motion. A gray son of Unbridled Energy, he broke his maiden in his debut at Laurel in November. After a fourth-place finish in a minor stakes race, he stretched out to two turns successfully to win an allowance race at Parx. Angel Arroyo will be aboard for the first time and the pair will break from the rail as the colt tries to earn his first stakes win.
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