Movie Moxy appears to have edge over stablemate Hot Fudge

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Movie Moxy and Hot Fudge are both coming off significant layoffs since each won their last starts in June, but both seem quite formidable for trainer Linda Rice in Friday’s multi-conditioned allowance feature for females at Aqueduct.

With the $95,000 race being run at a mile, the 6-year-old Movie Moxy would seem to have the edge over her younger stablemate Hot Fudge. Movie Moxy is 4 for 8 at a mile while the 4-year-old Hot Fudge is winless in her lone start at the distance.

Though Movie Moxy has raced eight times this year, she has not run since winning a similarly conditioned race as this going one mile at Belmont on June 24. She had been entered and scratched several times since including from the $150,000 Noble Damsel Stakes on Oct. 8 due to an ankle issue, Rice said.

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“She’s had a little bit of everything, a bruised foot, a fever, an ankle,” said Rice, who believes those things are behind her coming into this race.

Rice acknowledged that Movie Moxy has had some gate issues in the past, which is why she’s happy about her being drawn on the outside in this six-horse field.

Kendrick Carmouche rides.

Hot Fudge hasn’t run since winning a third-level allowance going seven furlongs at Belmont on June 16, her third win from five starts this year.

Rice said that after that race Hot Fudge began bearing out in her morning training.

“We didn’t find anything of significance so we just gave her the summer off,” Rice said. “She’s come back and has been perfect.”

Her lone try at one mile came in the Grade 1 Frizette in 2021, finishing a well-beaten seventh. She has won twice at seven furlongs, both in front-running fashion.

“I think she’s capable at a mile,” Rice said. “Is it ideal coming off the layoff? Probably not, but it’s a race to get her started.”

Jose Lezcano rides from post 5.

Mosienko has twice beaten Movie Moxy, though her last two at this level have been disappointing. She did stumble at the break of her last start and suffered a foot injury known as a grabbed quarter, according to trainer Dennis Lalman.

“I had to get it healed up, I couldn’t run her for a couple of weeks,” Lalman said.” She’s fine now.”

Though Lalman believes Mosienko’s best distance is seven furlongs, he said, “Being the mile is at one turn at Aqueduct it’s not too concerning, I think she’ll be okay.

“The way she’s training and acting, she’s not showing she wants to stop racing right now,” Lalman added.

Hot-riding apprentice Luis Rivera Jr. has the call from post 4.

Sweet Willemina, based at Parx with Scott Lake, has twice shipped to Aqueduct and won, once via disqualification on Oct. 27. She is coming out of a third-place finish in the Thirty Eight Go Go Stakes at Laurel on Nov. 11 and gets the services of Irad Ortiz Jr.

The Brazilian-bred Evidencias has done most of her racing on turf, but did win a Grade 2 stakes in Brazil on dirt.

Cairo Sugar won an allowance race at Delaware Park in October before finishing fourth in the Iroquois Stakes, a 6 1/2-furlong race run here in the mud on Oct. 29.

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