OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Quint’s Brew brings his razor-sharp Mid-Atlantic form to New York, where he starts as the likely favorite in Saturday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Carter Stakes going seven furlongs at Aqueduct. Quint’s Brew, trained by Ned Allard, has won four of five career starts, with his lone loss coming when he was bothered coming out of the gate and then raced in between horses through strong early fractions in the Star de Naskra Stakes at Laurel Park last June. After a foot issue and a trainer change to Ned Allard, Quint’s Brew won the Jennings Stakes by six lengths at Laurel in January. Four weeks later, he took the General George by 5 1/2 lengths, also at Laurel. The General George was run over a muddy track, conditions that could be in play at Aqueduct on Saturday. “I think I have a really good shot as long as he fires and everything is okay,” Allard said. “If it comes up a muddy racetrack, he won the General George easily in the mud. He seemed to love it. I feel very good about it.” :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Quint’s Brew ran two fast races in a four-week period, which is why Allard is glad he had seven weeks to the Carter. The horse has been based at Delaware Park this winter, and Allard said that track has been terrific to train over all winter. Though the past performances show that Quint’s Brew was head-and-head for the lead after the opening quarter of the General George, jockey Mychel Sanchez had him fourth coming out of the chute early on at Laurel. “He’s won on the lead, but I think his best races are when he sits off of a horse and runs like he did the last two times,” Allard said. “He looks to be quite versatile.” Sanchez rides Quint’s Brew from post 2 in the Carter. Maximus Meridius won the Gravesend in the slop and the Toboggan over a fast track at Aqueduct. Hoping to give his horse an easy prep for the Carter, trainer Butch Reid ran him in a Pennsylvania-bred allowance on Feb. 25 at Parx. There, he was beaten a nose by Harp’s Hot Corner, who got beat in his next start. Full Moon Madness, beaten twice by Maximus Meridius, enters the Carter off a win in the Grade 3 Tom Fool going six furlongs here on March 1. Though Full Moon Madness ran well going a mile when second in the Nashua as a 2-year-old in 2022, he is winless in four starts at seven furlongs. “I’m not sure if the seven-eighths is going to be an issue or has it been a case of he just wasn’t breaking good enough, so you were costing yourself so much at the start,” trainer Michelle Nevin said. “The way he broke last time if he could do that again I’m not so bothered by the seven-eighths.” Surveillance was second to Full Moon Madness in the Tom Fool, his fourth consecutive runner-up finish. He is 0 for 4 at seven furlongs. “He may be better going a little shorter, but based on his races and the way he’s trained, I feel like seven-eighths is in his wheelhouse,” trainer Linda Rice said. Rice has another entry in Sheriff Bianco, but she also entered him in Sunday’s Haynesfield Stakes for New York-breds going a mile. Rice said Thursday morning she had not yet decided in which race he would run. He drew the outside post in both races. Crazy Mason, trained by Gregg Sacco, is coming off two strong allowance wins at six furlongs where he stormed home from double-digit-lengths back. If his kick is equally as strong at seven-eighths, he could win. Dilger is up from Florida for Saffie Joseph Jr. after winning a first-level allowance at Gulfstream Park on March 2. The connections of Donegal Momentum have elected to run in the Carter instead of the Grade 1 Maker’s Mark Mile on turf scheduled for next week at Keeneland, trainer Tom Morley said. Donegal Momentum had a win and a second on dirt at Aqueduct before winning three of his last four starts on turf. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.