Aqueduct Friday program canceled

Friday’s eight-race card at Aqueduct was canceled due to a winter storm that brought upward of five inches of snow to the Metropolitan area. Aqueduct was also closed for simulcasting.

Though the snow was expected to end by late morning, a winter weather advisory remained in effect until noon, according to weather.com. Travel was deemed treacherous and all the locally based horses who race at Aqueduct must be vanned over from Belmont Park, where they are stabled.

Training was also canceled Friday morning at Belmont Park.

Live racing is expected to resume Saturday at Aqueduct with a nine-race card, topped by the $100,000 Say Florida Sandy Stakes, beginning at 12:20 p.m.