OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Linda Rice looks poised to add to her record-setting season totals in New York with eight entrants in five of the eight races on Wednesday’s Aqueduct card, the final program of 2025. Rice enters the day with 171 wins, already a record for wins by a trainer for one year on the New York Racing Association circuit and 45 more than Chad Brown who is second. Rice, who has a career-best 188 training wins overall in 2025, also will finish as the leading owner at NYRA in 2025 as her 61 victories are 15 more than Seth Klarman’s Klaravich Stables. The eight runners Rice has entered Wednesday range from the 2-year-old first-time starter Qbits in race 2 to the 9-year-old gelding Amundson in the nightcap. In between, Rice has two entries in three other races, including the featured seventh where the 3-year-old filly Munnings Express looks to build on her last-out victory when she starts in a second-level allowance/optional $45,000 claiming sprint race for New York-bred females at 6 1/2 furlongs. Rice also has Mommasgottagun entered in this race, which drew a field of 10. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Munnings Express, a daughter of Munnings out of the stakes-winning mare Freudie Anne, has two wins and a second from four starts. Munnings Express came off a five-month layoff to clear the first-level allowance condition by 4 3/4 lengths, doing so after surviving an early pace battle. “I think she was really cut out to be a nice filly,” Rice said. “She’s very big, and it’s just taken us a while – with a few stops and starts – to get her there, but I think she’s got some quality.” Rice said the lengthy layoff before her last win was precipitated by a struggle to keep weight on Munnings Express earlier in the year. Though Munnings Express won her last race on the lead, she has run well from just off the pace as well. Jose Lezcano will ride Munnings Express from post 2. Mommasgottagun has been soundly defeated in this condition on three straight occasions and looks to be in deep in this spot. Kay Cup, who did beat Munnnigs Express when the latter made her career debut in April, has been a beaten favorite in her last three starts, including a runner-up finish at 1-5 behind Bam’s Bliss Kiss in this same condition Dec. 10. Trainer Jorge Abreu is adding blinkers to Kay Cup’s equipment and is making a rider change to Flavien Prat. Bam’s Bliss Kiss, trained by Linda Dixon, is seeking her third consecutive win. She has speed, and there looks to be plenty of that in this race, including Accelerating, who returns from a six-month layoff for trainer Steve Asmussen. Accelerating won her first two starts in 2024, including the Seeking the Ante Stakes at Saratoga. She is 0 for 3 this year, though two of those efforts came in open-company races at Oaklawn Park. Hangover Heaven, a daughter of Mr. Monomoy tries dirt for the first time after going 2-1-1 from five starts on turf. “She’s been training good on the dirt since the first time she ran,” trainer Rick Dutrow said. “I’m not saying she’s a dirt horse or she’s going to be better, but she trains good on it. We’re confident she will run over it.” Amundson looks to go out a winner Rice’s final starter of 2025 will be Amundson, a 9-year-old stakes-winning gelding who is entered in Wednesday’s eighth, a $10,000 claiming race. New York Racing Association rules prohibit 10-year-olds from racing or stabling in New York, so this will have to be Amundson’s final career start on this circuit as all horses turn another year older on New Year’s Day, which is Thursday. Amundson, who has a record of 17-9-7 from 52 starts, was claimed for $16,000 by Rice on behalf of Prestine Racing and Nicole Piscatelli on Nov. 22. He finished fourth that day as the even-money favorite. Rice said the plan is to retire Amundson after Wednesday’s race, provided he is not claimed. Rice noted that Barry Schwartz, Amundson’s breeder and original owner, has shown interest in having him stable at his Stonewall Farm in Westchester. Amundson won the Hollie Hughes in 2020 for Schwartz and then trainer Horacio De Paz. “We don’t have any intention of running him going forward,” Rice said. “The plan is to hopefully go out a winner and let him go on to a retirement home, and it might very well be Barry’s farm.” Amundson is not the only 9-year-old in the race. Tiberius Mercurious, who has a record of 8-6-7 from 57 career starts, goes out for trainer Carlos Figeroa and owner Bruno Schickedanz. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.