Sunday storm: Aqueduct cancels; Gulfstream is off turf

The New York Racing Association canceled live racing Sunday at the Belmont at Aqueduct fall meet due to a powerful coastal storm forecast to bring extremely high wind and heavy rainfall to the New York metropolitan area.

The same storm system also led Gulfstream Park to move its turf races to the Tapeta synthetic surface Sunday, when it scheduled a mandatory payout of its Rainbow 6.

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Sunday’s featured $150,000 Carle Place Stakes at Aqueduct will be brought back next Sunday with entries scheduled to be retaken Wednesday.

The National Weather Service put New York City under a wind advisory beginning Sunday at noon EDT with current forecasts predicting sustained winds of 25-35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph.

Aqueduct will remain open for simulcasting Sunday.

Laurel Park in Maryland and Woodbine in Canada also are in the path of the storm, but they planned to go ahead and race Sunday.

A Sunday forecast map from the National Weather Service showed a band of rain and thunderstorms along the Atlantic Coast from Florida to Connecticut and stretching inward to the Appalachians and into the eastern Great Lakes region.