Rice has solid contingent for Correction

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Linda Rice finished first and third in last year’s Correction Stakes at Aqueduct when Sounds Delicious went gate to wire while Startwithsilver rallied from last to just miss second.

Sounds Delicious and Startwithsilver, plus stablemates Sower and Honor Way, all were entered Wednesday by Rice for Saturday’s 79th renewal of the $100,000 Correction for fillies and mares at six furlongs.

The Correction drew just two other runners, Yorkiepoo Princess and Filibustin.

It is likely that Rice will start Sower, Sounds Delicious, and Startwithsilver. Rice said “we’ll take a look at it” with Honor Way.

When Sounds Delicious won the Correction last March it was her fifth victory from her first six starts, her lone loss coming by a neck in allowance company.

She has dropped her last four starts, two before getting a break and two since returning. Most recently, she was beaten a head in an allowance race here on New Year’s Day.

“We’re hoping she regains her form,” Rice said. “If not, she’ll move on to the breeding shed. She had a setback, had a lot of time off, and sometimes you can never get them back to form.”

Startwithsilver will be making the second start off a layoff after finishing fifth in the Broadway Stakes on Feb. 16, a race she had won a year ago.

Sower is coming off a second in the Interborough on Jan. 25 and might prefer the turnback to six furlongs. She was entered in but scratched from the Heavenly Prize Stakes going a mile last Sunday.

Honor Way, third in the Interborough, is coming off a seventh-place finish in the Grade 3 Barbara Fritchie at Laurel last month.

Rounding out the Correction field are Yorkiepoo Princess, a four-time stakes winner who most recently ran fifth in the Interborough, and Filibustin, who is coming off a sixth in the Broadway.