Trainer Linda Rice checked all the boxes in 2019: Leading trainer (by earnings) in all New York-bred races – $4,234,018. Leading trainer (wins) at the Aqueduct winter meeting – 45. Graded stakes winner – Nicodemus. New York-bred stakes winners –…

Trainer Linda Rice notched 40 wins for her second consecutive winter meet crown, while jockey Manny Franco posted 64 victories to win his third consecutive winter meet title at Aqueduct Racetrack. Drawing Away Stable bested all owners with 19 wins…

Trainer Linda Rice already has her horse for the Wood Memorial. Now, she has her horse for the Gotham as well. One week after winning the Grade 3 Withers with Max Player, Rice won Saturday’s $150,000 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes with…

Max Player went from maiden winner to graded winner by outstaying his competition in Saturday’s GIII Withers S. His victory was both the first black-type and graded for sire Honor Code (A.P. Indy), whose Lane’s End barn mate Tonalist was…

Trainer Linda Rice secured her 2,000th career win when Alpha Delta Stables homebred Scilly Cay rolled to victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Rego Park at Aqueduct Racetrack. Rice, who leads all trainers at the Big A Winter meet with 23 wins,…