Rice getting closer to Jacobson's record for NYRA wins in a year

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Hot Fudge gave trainer Linda Rice her 2,400th career win when she captured Saturday’s Garland of Roses Stakes. It also was Rice’s 157th win on the New York Racing Association circuit this year, moving her within seven of David Jacobson’s single-year record of 164.

Hot Fudge ran in the Garland of Roses eight days after she won an allowance race at Aqueduct in her first start off a near six-month layoff.

“She was bearing out a bit in her last race at Belmont [in June] and she’s kind of a fragile filly so we gave her the summer off and she came back well,” Rice said.

Rice said the $150,000 Interborough is likely next for Hot Fudge.

Rice will seek more stakes over the last two weeks of the year here as she plans to run B D Saints in Saturday’s $500,000 Great White Way division of the New York Stallion Series. B D Saints is coming off a runner-up finish to the Rice-trained El Grande O in the Sleepy Hollow Stakes going a mile on Oct. 29.

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Rice will be the trainer of record of E Stormy, a first-time starter who will run in the $500,000 Fifth Avenue division of the NYSS. Owned by Mike Moreno’s Cypress Creek Equine, E Stormy has been training in Kentucky with Ricky Courville.

Rice said she is likely to run Film Star in the Queens County on Dec. 31 and as many as three fillies and mares Dec. 28 in the Bay Ridge – Bustin Bay, Ichiban and/or Amanda’s Folly.

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