Wednesday, February 01 2012

NICOLE H TOPS CORRECTION CROWD

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Fresh off a repeat victory in the New Year’s Day Interborough Stakes, Nicole H will try to maintain her momentum as she heads a field of seven female sprinters in Saturday’s 73rd renewal of the six-furlong, $100,000 Correction Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Winner of four of her last five starts, Nicole H is a perfect 3-for-3 over the inner track, having taken the Garland of Roses in her final start of 2010 in addition to the last two runnings of the Interborough. Between her Interborough victories she captured the Grade 2 Distaff Handicap over the Big A main track last April, and then was sidelined with a respiratory infection for six months. In her first start off the layoff, she came up a nose short to It’s Me Mom in the Robert O’Malley Stakes at Suffolk Downs on October 22.