Three graded stakes winners and an improving filly in restricted New York-bred stakes company should draw considerable attention in the Dec. 7 $200,000 Comely Stakes (G3) being run at 1 1/8 miles on Aqueduct Racetrack | BloodHorse.com Track Profile">Aqueduct Racetrack's main track.
Klaravich Stables' Fully Subscribed is the likely favorite in the field of eight runners, coming into the Comely off a 4 1/2-length win in the Nov. 8 Mother Goose Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct. The 3-year-old daughter of Tiz the Law has not been off the board in four starts. She was a neck shy in a 1 1/8-mile allowance/optional claimer Sept. 28 at Aqueduct before capturing the Mother Goose at the same distance.
Chad Brown trains Fully Subscribed, who was bred in Kentucky by Payson Stud and acquired by Klaravich for $300,000 during the Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale out of the Caliente Thoroughbreds consignment.
Fully Subscribed has a 2-1-1 record so far and earned $245,300. She will be ridden from post 6 by Flavien Prat.
Kappa Kappa also is a grade 2 winner but her victory came in the Oct. 18 Raven Run Stakes (G2) going 7 furlongs at Keeneland. She is a daughter of Omaha Beach out of a Pioneerof the Nile mare so distance would not seem to be an issue, but she has only tried two turns once in a one-mile test at Parx Racing where she was second by 5 3/4 lengths.
Trainer Butch Reid Jr. said Kappa Kappa has the ability and the grit to handle the 1 1/8 miles and the competition.
"I thought from the beginning that she's a two-turn horse," Reid said. "This is part of a longer-range plan to try and map out next year's schedule for her. We want to try her around two turns. I kind of threw it at her a little too quickly in her second start (at Parx) and she got a little confused and she wasn't sure what to do, like they do sometimes the first time going two turns, but I think she's a natural two-turn horse."
Kappa Kappa has won three of her four career starts and came into the Raven Run off a 6-length victory in a 6 1/2-furlong allowance race at Parx. She is co-owned by Reid, LC Racing, and Cash is King. She will break from post 5 with jockey John Velazquez aboard, who rode her in the Raven Run.
The other graded stakes winner in the field is Shortleaf Stable's homebred Quietside who has been off the board in her two previous starts but earlier this year captured the Honeybee Stakes (G3) and Fantasy Stakes (G2) at Oaklawn Park. She then ran sixth in the Kentucky Oaks (G1) and eighth in the Raven Run, her first start after a more than five months layoff.
Distance won't be an issue for Quietside, who has a 2-2-1 record from six starts at 1 1/16 miles or more. The daughter of Malibu Moon is trained by John Ortiz and has the outside post. She will be ridden by Ricardo Santana Jr.
Another intriguing entry is Pavilion Racing's Valtellina, who comes into the Comely off a 2 1/4-length win in the Oct. 25 Empire Distaff Stakes for New York-breds going 1 1/8 miles at Aqueduct. She has won or placed in three consecutive New York-bred stakes since July 14. The daughter of Complexity is trained by Ray Handal and will be ridden by Joel Rosario.
Aqueduct Racetrack, Sunday, December 7, 2025, Race 7Entries: Comely S. (G3)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L 1 Noticeable (KY) Jose Lezcano 118 Todd A. Pletcher - 2 Valtellina (NY) Joel Rosario 120 Raymond Handal - 3 Ourdaydreaminggirl (KY) Angel R. Rodriguez 118 Louis C. Linder, Jr. - 4 Ruth (KY) Kendrick Carmouche 118 Todd A. Pletcher - 5 Kappa Kappa (PA) John R. Velazquez 122 Robert E. Reid, Jr. - 6 Fully Subscribed (KY) Flavien Prat 122 Chad C. Brown - 7 Yes It Tiz (KY) Manuel Franco 118 Brad H. Cox - 8 Quietside (KY) Ricardo Santana, Jr. 122 John Alexander Ortiz -
