{"id":132,"date":"2012-04-21T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linda-rice.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2016-07-09T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T13:07:43","slug":"four-wins-each-and-three-together-for-rice-and-velasquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/four-wins-each-and-three-together-for-rice-and-velasquez\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Wins Each and Three Together for Rice and Velasquez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyra.com\/aqueduct\/stories\/April212012b.shtml\">NYRA Website<\/a><br \/>\nFirst Published: 21 April 2012<\/p>\n<p><i>By NYRA Press Office: Ashley Herriman<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rice_4wins_L.jpg\" alt=\"Rice and Velasquez\" \/><strong>Rice and Velasquez<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666666;\">Photo by Adam Coglianese<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Trainer Linda Rice and jockey Cornelio Velasquez each had four winners on Saturday&#8217;s card at Aqueduct Racetrack, with Velasquez aboard for three of Rice&#8217;s victories. Rice, who has saddled 12 winners during the Aqueduct main track meet, now tops the trainer standings going into Sunday&#8217;s closing day. Velasquez, with 23 victories on the main track, enjoys a five-win lead over David Cohen (18) and Eddie Castro (18) in the jockey standings.<\/p>\n<p>Rice and Velasquez picked up their first victories separately on Saturday, with the trainer sending out Finn Again ($7.60) to win the second race, a turf route for maidens, under Alan Garcia. In race 4, the Northern Willy overnight stakes, Velasquez piloted Miss Valentine ($3.80) to a 2 \u00bc-length victory over the main track for trainer Christophe Clement.<\/p>\n<p>Rice and Velasquez then teamed up to win race 5 with Cricky&#8217;sgoldeneyes ($7.90) and race 6 with longshot first-timer N. F.&#8217;s Destiny ($22.20). Rice&#8217;s Tell Grant finished eighth in race 7 with Velasquez aboard, but the pair resumed their winning ways on the turf in race 8 when Velasquez guided Abilio ($8.50) to a one-length allowance victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought we had a really good chance to win the second, the sixth, and the eighth,&#8221; Rice said after Abilio&#8217;s victory. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t counting on the fifth. It&#8217;s a good time to have all the grass horses back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: NYRA Website First Published: 21 April 2012 By NYRA Press Office: Ashley Herriman Rice and Velasquez Photo by Adam Coglianese Trainer Linda Rice and jockey Cornelio Velasquez each had four winners on Saturday&#8217;s card at Aqueduct Racetrack, with Velasquez&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}