Following the cancellation of both of last weekend’s cards, racing returns to Aqueduct on Friday with a nine-race card that includes a stakes-caliber allowance for older males going 1 1/8 miles. The in-form New York-bred Olympic Dreams seeks his third straight win against open company in this spot where he faces open stakes winners Law Professor and Tabeguache and Queens County Stakes runner-up Quality Chic. Olympic Dreams, a gelding by Medaglia d’Oro trained by Pat Quick, is coming off a 2 3/4-length allowance win at Aqueduct on Jan. 7 in the slop, a surface over which he had failed to run well in three previous tries. :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. “I was really happy with that last race obviously,” Quick said. “I wasn’t sure about the slop either, just like everybody else. I was real happy with the way it all turned out.” Quick said he had to treat Olympic Dreams for equine protozoal myeloencephalitis [EPM] earlier in his career and since the gelding has gotten over that he’s really come to hand. “Since I started treating him for that, he’s been much better and he keeps improving,” Quick said. “He had that one little lull and he seems to be getting better and better. His attitude is great and he feels great.” Olympic Dreams is running back 19 days after his last race, but Quick isn’t bothered by the quick turnaround. “He’s doing great, the timing of the race is fine, we’re in it because it’s a two-turner but he’s never done better,” Quick said. Quality Chic has two allowance wins and a neck loss to Crupi in the Queens County, his last three starts on dirt. “I think he’s a stakes horse, he just gets better and better,” trainer David Jacobson said. “I think he’s turned the corner as far as being a regular horse or a stakes horse. He still has a little bit to prove but I like this race for him, the further the better.” Quality Chic is coupled with Laughing Boy, who was second to Olympic Dreams on Jan. 7 after winning the Chocolate Town Stakes at Penn National in November. Tabeguache won the St. Louis Derby at FanDuel Racing in August before finishing a disappointing fourth to Crupi in the Discovery Stakes. He is coming off a nose defeat to Kinetic Sky in this same condition going a mile on Dec. 28. The wild card in the field is Law Professor, who won the Queens County and Excelsior at Aqueduct in 2023. He is coming off disappointing efforts in the Fayette at Keeneland in October and the Diliberto Memorial at Fair Grounds on turf in December. “He can be quite a temperamental horse, he just kind of underperformed his last couple of races,” trainer Rob Atras said. “We saw this race in the book, it’s good spacing so we decided to ship him back. He runs well at Aqueduct and we hope to get back in form.” The millionaire Forewarned ships up from Parx for trainer Uriah St. Lewis. No Burn, Guntown, and Winit complete the field. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.