Please Advise squeezes through horses to take Atlantic Beach

Please Advise and Toupie both became stakes winners Saturday in separate races at Aqueduct. Please Advise was a neck winner over Irish Gent in the $120,000 Atlantic Beach and Toupie closed with a flourish to capture the $120,000 Stewart Manor.

The races were for 2-year-olds at six furlongs on turf. The Stewart Manor was restricted to fillies. The course was listed as firm.

Please Advise ($17.80) raced off the pace set by Works for Me, who put up fractions of 22.65 seconds for the opening quarter and 45.57 for the half-mile. Please Advise advanced and won a three-horse rush to the wire. He covered the distance in 1:09.39.

Eric Cancel was aboard the winner for trainer George Weaver.

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"I got a little bit concerned because I saw horses start to get away from me, but it just took him a little bit to turn his engine on,” Cancel told the New York Racing Association. “Once he got it going, he got the job done.”

It was another neck back in third to Works for Me.

Please Advise is a son of Palace Malice who races for R A Hill Stable. He is now 2 for 6 for earnings of $191,418.

Toupie settled off fractions of 22.55 seconds for the opening quarter and 45.79 for the half-mile before putting in a closing run through the lane. She covered the distance in 1:09.92.

Jorge Ruiz was aboard for trainer Graham Motion.

“The instructions were to break well and get good position,” Ruiz told NYRA. “I just waited for my run. I rode her at Colonial and she finished second. Today, she responded big when I asked her.”

Toupie is a daughter of Uncle Mo who races for Wertheimer and Frere. She is now 2 for 4 for earnings of $126,575.

Marco T. finished second, while it was another three-quarters of a length back in third to Greavette.

Racing resumes Sunday with a card of three stakes led by the Nashua.

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