By FullCardReports.com

Aqueduct Ace of the Day: Jockey C. C. (Chuck) Lopez rang out the old year in fine fashion by winning three races from his five mounts Sunday. Lopez won the fourth race with PRINCE BENJAMIN ($7.00), the seventh with WHAT'S YOUR POINT ($20.00), and the finale aboard AHVEE'S DESTINY ($10.40). Chuck's son, apprentice rider Erik Lopez, scored his first riding victory and lit up the tote when CHICAGO'S GIRL won the fifth race and paid $64.00.

In Sunday's Alex M. Robb for New York-breds, a $65,000 handicap race that went 8.5 furlongs, ACCOUNTFORTHEGOLD went to the front and set quick fractions of 23.23, 45.98, and 1:10.27. Clear by a length and a half off the second turn and pressed the entire way by INDIAN HAWKE, ACCOUNTFORTHEGOLD faced a new challenge when NAUGHTY NEW YORKER and WHO WHAT WIN made their late runs. NAUGHTY NEW YORKER struck to the front inside the furlong marker and drew off to win by almost three lengths while WHO WHAT WIN nailed the place when he got a head in front of ACCOUNTFORTHEGOLD at the wire. NAUGHTY NEW YORKER, with Jean-Luc Samyn in the saddle, stopped the clock in 1:42.64 and returned $11.40 to his backers.

Troubled Trip: In Sunday's fourth race, a mile-and-a-sixteenth claimer, PRINCE BENJAMIN struck to the front from post five with Chuck Lopez. TAKING THE REDEYE, with Eibar Coa up, pressed the pace from post seven but had to settle for the two-path as Lopez had the rail and wasn't going to give it up. These two raced as a team most of the way around with PRINCE BENJAMIN prevailing by a half length at the wire. TAKING THE REDEYE was very game in defeat but the inside speed was the key here and nobody plays that angle better than Chuck Lopez. Give TAKING THE REDEYE a long look next out.

The New Year kicks off with the $65,000 Interborough Handicap, a 6-furlong sprint for fillies and mares three and up. The field of seven is headed by Gary Contessa's MAGNOLIA JACKSON (2/1ML) who is four for five on the inner track and seven for ten at the distance. She comes in here off two consecutive stakes wins in the Montclair State University at the Meadowlands and the Garland of Roses at Aqueduct. MAGNOLIA JACKSON will start from post six with Ramon Dominguez.

Mike Hushion's GREAT INTENTIONS (5/2ML) is a multiple graded stakes winner and will be ridden by Norberto Arroyo from post four. Two back, she won the 6.5-furlong Grade 2 Gallant Bloom at Belmont Park and most recently was unplaced after a stumbling start in the Grade 2 First Flight at Aqueduct. GREAT INTENTIONS is a speedy daughter of CAT THIEF and should be in the mix early.

SMART AND FANCY (3/1ML) will be coming from post two with Chuck Lopez. This Anthony Dutrow trainee has won six of her last seven races, including the one-mile Maryland Million Oaks in her last start on October 16th at Laurel Park. She is three for four at the 6-furlong distance and will be with the pace.

The Longshot: OPRAH WINNEY (6/1ML) is 3/2/2 from eight lifetime starts and a winner on the Aqueduct inner track. She won the restricted Bouwerie Stakes last out at 7-furlongs back in May but has been working very well for the return since October. She's graded stakes placed and a two time winner at the distance. OPRAH WINNEY is trained by Richard Dutrow and will break from the outside post seven with Mike Smith in the irons.

TRUE KISS, EVASIVE, and SAMSINCHARGE complete the field.

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