A winter storm that blew into New York overnight has forced Aqueduct to cancel Thursday’s card, the New York Racing Association announced. The Jamaica, N.Y., track is scheduled to resume racing on Friday.

The storm has brought snow and high winds to the area, and the National Weather Service has forecast snow accumulation could reach 9 to 12 inches, according to the press release from NYRA. A winter storm warning that includes calls for wind gusts of up to 50 mph and coastal flooding is in place through 1 p.m. Thursday.

The 3-year-old colt Maxfield, unraced since May, will make his first start following the second long layoff of his brief career in the $75,000 Tenacious Stakes, the last of 13 races Saturday at Fair Grounds.

Monomoy Girl, poised to win her second Eclipse Award, this time as champion older mare, has settled into her winter quarters at Fair Grounds and is scheduled to have her first work since winning the Nov. 7 Breeders’ Cup Distaff sometime during December. She will launch her 2021 season, if all goes well, in the Bayakoa Stakes on Feb. 15 at Oaklawn Park.

The Bayakoa is a prep, trainer Brad Cox said, for Monomoy Girl’s major spring goal, the $1 million Apple Blossom Handicap on April 17 at Oaklawn Park.

The Great One, a maiden after three races, was entered in Saturday’s Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity, a $200,000 race at 1 1/16 miles that will have a small field.

Owned by the partnership of Erik Johnson, Train Wreck Al Racing Stable, Niall Brennan, and Tom Fritz, The Great One, by Nyquist, has finished fourth in his last two starts. The Great One was beaten two lengths after setting the pace in a one-mile maiden special weight race on turf Nov. 29 at Del Mar, his most recent outing.

Three wins last Saturday, and a consistent span of results in the last two weeks, has left apprentice jockey Jessica Pyfer on the verge of the unexpected this weekend at Los Alamitos – positioned to contend for the riding title at the track’s three-week meeting.

Through Sunday, Pyfer, who began riding in September, was tied for second in the standings with seven wins, one less than leader Juan Hernandez and equal with Abel Cedillo, the leading rider at the Del Mar autumn session last month. The meeting ends Sunday.

Jamie Begg, a former assistant to trainer Mark Casse, has taken out his license and will have his first starter Friday at Turfway Park.

Begg will saddle Weekend Fun for Windways Farm, the nom de course of his family, in the fifth race, an allowance/optional-claiming event sprinting on the Tapeta. The filly is 20-1 on the morning line in the main body of the overflow field of 14, of which 12 may start. Joe Rocco Jr. is named to ride.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational is still more than a month away, but Tiz the Law is giving every indication he’s ready and raring to go right now after breezing six furlongs in 1:11.60 per Daily Racing Form clocker Donald Harris on Wednesday morning at Palm Meadows.

With regular work rider Heather Smullen aboard, Tiz the Law posted splits of 25.00 seconds and 48.00 for the opening half-mile before galloping out a full mile in a razor-sharp 1:37.60.

Hold off on the retirement cards for Quarter Horse trainer John Cooper.

Cooper, who turns 83 in January, won the 1,500th race of his career at Los Alamitos with Apollitical Pence in the $600,000 Champion of Champions last Saturday. The presence of that gelding in the stable and the insistence of longtime clients Jerryl and Dana Hartley that he continue training were the leading factors in the decision, Cooper said.

The undefeated 2-year-old Jaxon Traveler is under consideration for an upcoming stakes at Aqueduct, according to trainer Steve Asmussen.

Jaxon Traveler is 3 for 3, winning his starts by a combined margin of 14 3/4 lengths. His latest came in the $100,000 Maryland Juvenile Futurity on Dec. 5 at Laurel Park. Asmussen said the horse is now back at Belmont Park.

“The Jimmy Winkfield at Aqueduct is a possibility,” he said.

The seven-furlong race for 3-year-olds is Jan. 31. It has a purse of $100,000.

Trainer Roger Brueggemann passed away Tuesday, a victim of COVID-19 at age 75.

Brueggemann had been hospitalized with a serious case of the virus and had been gravely ill for quite some time. He was an active trainer based in Chicago up to the time of his death.

Brueggemann gained national prominence – and found surprising high-level success – when he began training for Midwest Thoroughbreds in 2010. That association brought Work All Week, who would win the Breeders’ Cup Sprint in 2014, and The Pizza Man, who won the 2015 Arlington Million.