Aqueduct cancels Saturday card due to forecast for extreme cold

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Saturday’s live racing program at Aqueduct has been canceled, due to a forecast that calls for dangerously low wind chill values in the New York City metropolitan area, according to the New York Racing Association.

Temperatures are forecast to be in the mid-to-upper teens with windchill values around 0 to negative -5, at least early on Saturday. The NYRA also canceled training Saturday at Belmont Park, where all the locally based horses who race at Aqueduct are stabled.

Saturday’s nine-race card featured the $100,000 Franklin Square Stakes for New York-bred 3-year-old fillies. That race has been rescheduled for Jan. 22.

Aqueduct will be open for simulcasting on Saturday.

Racing is scheduled to resume Sunday with a nine-race card topped by the $100,000 Ladies Stakes. There will be a $42,913 pick six carryover on Sunday's card after the bet went unhit Friday. First post is 12:20 p.m.