Friday TimeformUS Highlight Horse: Map of the Moon should get favorable pace setup in Stewart Manor
TimeformUS Highlight Horse for Friday, November 7, 2025, at Aqueduct.
David AragonaNov 06, 2025
TimeformUS Highlight Horse for Friday, November 7, 2025, at Aqueduct.
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Weekend GamePlan: Picks for Mother Goose, River City, Dream Supreme
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Officially, Kenny McPeek will be the trainer of record of Shilling, who won Thursday's Tempted Stakes by four lengths at Aqueduct. But Jimmy Jerkens, a former Grade 1-winning trainer who began working earlier this year as an assistant to McPeek, took some satisfaction in returning to the Aqueduct winner's circle following a stakes race.
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Touchuponastar will be looking to nail down the 15th stakes win of his career Saturday night, when the top class Louisiana-bred meets open company in the $100,000 Delta Downs Mile.
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Coming off a fifth-place finish in the Grade 3 Matron at Aqueduct, Just Philtored will return to the Mid-Atlantic region for another stiff test in the $100,000 Smart Halo Stakes on Saturday at Laurel Park. The versatile juvenile filly will switch back to dirt after two stakes tries on turf for trainer Mike Trombetta.
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The trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. won a career-best 35 stakes races during 2024, doubling his 2023 total. He has 33 stakes wins this year and the better part of two months to find three more and surpass last year's mark. A plurality of bettors will guess Joseph gets No. 34 when he runs R Disaster as the 9-5 morning-line favorite in the $300,000 Dream Supreme Stakes.
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Way to Be Marie is the new marathon chick on the block Saturday in a well-matched edition of the Grade 3, $250,000 Long Island Stakes at Aqueduct.
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Chasing the Crown finished a closing third as a 64-1 shot last January in the Pegasus World Cup Turf. Making his first post-Pegasus start, Chasing the Crown captured a $500,000 handicap at Kentucky Downs. Trainer Mike Maker a week later named the 2026 Pegasus as a major objective, but first Chasing the Crown starts as the favorite Saturday at Churchill Downs in the Grade 3, $300,000 River City.
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Steppe, a 3-year-old gelding trained by Bobby Dibona, will have a prime opportunity to return to his winning ways in the $70,000 Awesome Banner Handicap on Saturday at Gulfstream Park. Since Dibona claimed him for $50,000 in February, he has not finished worse than second in five starts.
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Stars and Strides seeks his first graded victory in Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 Hill Prince Stakes at Aqueduct. This is the last turf stakes routing restricted to 3-year-olds on this circuit this year. The Hill Prince is scheduled for 1 1/8 miles over Aqueduct's inner turf course.