'Highweight' Top Three Entered in Gravesend

Aqueduct Racetrack will return from the Christmas break Dec. 26 with the top three finishers in the Fall Highweight Handicap (gr. III) set to square off in the $100,000 Gravesend Stakes at six furlongs.

The Nov. 26 Fall Highweight ended with a blanket finish: Green Gratto, the early leader, held on to win by head over Palace  , who had a half-length on Fabulous Kid. Those three are among six entered in the Gravesend, the eighth race on the Saturday program.

Gaston and Anthony Grant's Green Gratto, a New Jersey-bred 5-year-old  by Here's Zealous, won the Fall Highweight at 24-1 in his 15th start of the year for trainer Gaston Grant. Earlier in 2015 Green Gratto finished second at 53-1 behind Dads Caps in the grade I Carter Handicap at Aqueduct.

Antonino Miuccio's 6-year-old horse Palace (City Zip  ), one of the top New York-based sprinters for trainer Linda Rice, has won $217,000 this year with his lone victory in the state-bred Hudson Stakes despite solid efforts in top company.

Owner/trainer David Jacobson's Fabulous Kid, a 4-year-old Congrats   colt, seeks his first stakes victory in the Gravesend.