Bishops Bay goes for graded double in G2 Cigar Mile H.
At 9h32, on December 2, 2025 • By Aqueduct Racetrack
KAS Stables’ recently-acquired Bishops Bay will look to double up on graded wins at Aqueduct Racetrack when taking on Saturday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Cigar Mile Handicap for 3-year-olds and up.
The Cigar Mile [Race 10] is one of six stakes races on Saturday’s 11-race card, which includes a pair of Grade 2, $250,000 tilts for juveniles with the Remsen in Race 9 and the Demoiselle for fillies in Race 3. The card also features the Grade 3, $250,000 Elite Power in Race 5 and two $500,000 New York Stallion Stakes Series events at seven furlongs for eligible state-sired juveniles in the Great White Way [Race 11] and Fifth Avenue for fillies [Race 8]. First post is 11:20 a.m. Eastern.
Trained by dual Eclipse Award-winner Brad Cox, Bishops Bay makes his first start for KAS Stables after the Saudi Arabian-based owner purchased him for a sale-topping $1.3 million on November 12 at the Keeneland November Horses of Racing Age Sale. Just 10 days prior, the 5-year-old Uncle Mo bay notched his third Grade 3 win of the year with a prominent three-quarter-length score over Nelson Avenue in the Forty Niner over Saturday’s course and distance.
“It was a solid run and we had been pointing for that race since Saratoga,” Cox said. “He’s a good-training horse and we thought he was going to run well, and he did. We’ve been pointing for this ever since. He’s a multiple graded stakes winner and a beautiful horse, so hopefully we can add to it on Saturday.”
The Forty Niner came in his first effort in more than two months, previously finishing sixth in the Grade 1 Forego on August 23 at Saratoga Race Course, where he cut back to shorter than one mile for the first time since his career debut and stumbled at the start. That effort was the only time he has finished worse than second in 12 lifetime outings, and came on the back of a pair of Grade 3 scores over wet tracks in the local one-mile Westchester in May and Monmouth Park’s Salvator Mile in June.
Cox said Bishops Bay has trained forwardly at Belmont Park under the watchful eye of assistant trainer Dustin Dugas.
