With a weather front approaching New York, the racetrack at Aqueduct was sealed tight and rolled after the last race on Thursday. The combination of rain and heavy equipment will do nothing to rectify the pronounced inside speed bias that has prevailed during the first two days of racing on the main...

Trainer Todd Pletcher, who broke his own seasonal earnings record in 2007 with his horses accumulating more than $28.5 million in purses, went into the weekend four winners short of 2,000. With three entered at Gulfstream on Saturday, three more at Santa Anita, the high-class grass mare Wait a While...