Aqueduct: Saratoga Snacks set for Evening Attire

Saratoga Snacks, who was scratched from the Alex M. Robb Stakes on Dec. 28 due to chronic foot issues, was one of eight horses entered Monday for Saturday’s $100,000 Evening Attire Stakes at 1 1/16 miles.

Saratoga Snacks, owned by Hall of Fame football coach Bill Parcells, drew post 3 and has newly turned journeyman jockey Manuel Franco to ride.

The Evening Attire field includes Long River, Percussion, Cease, and Queens County Stakes winner Jonesy Boy.

On Monday, Saratoga Snacks worked four furlongs in 50.20 seconds over the Belmont Park training track.

“He came off the track bouncing,” said trainer Gary Sciacca, adding that his assistant Paul Barone “had to grab him and bring him back into the barn; he was rearing up, jumping.”

Sciacca said that Saratoga Snacks’s feet seem to be fine at the moment. He said if another issue pops up between here and Saturday that he would turn the horse out for a while.

◗ Beginning next Monday, NYRA will start a promotion that will allow a fan at Aqueduct to win a $1,000 wager to be placed on one horse in the day’s eighth race. The promotion is a watered-down version of what was done in Saratoga last summer on Saturdays where a fan could win the chance to place a $15,000 wager on one horse.