NYRA Cancels Aqueduct Sunday Eight-Race Card Amid NYC Blizzard Warning

The New York Racing Association canceled live racing at Aqueduct Racetrack for Sunday’s eight-race program, citing a powerful winter storm forecast to bring heavy snowfall and extremely high winds. NYRA issued the release dated February 22, 2026 after the National Weather Service placed New York City under a blizzard warning beginning at 1:00 p.m. Eastern.

Operational fallout from NYRA’s announcement is immediate: Aqueduct will be closed for simulcasting on Sunday and the organization directed bettors to place wagers through NYRABets. The press release language was redistributed widely; BloodHorse published the NYRA text under a header listing the release date of February 22, 2026 and labeled it an Unedited Press Release.

Timing details in the coverage vary. Thoroughbred Daily News posted the item at 8:57 a.m. on February 22, 2026 and updated it at 9:02 a.m., adding that the National Weather Service warning continues through Monday at 6:00 p.m. Eastern. That extended expiration time appears explicitly in TDN’s copy; other outlets and the NYRA release itself emphasize the 1:00 p.m. Eastern start time.

Multiple outlets republished NYRA’s notice. Yahoo Sports noted the item originally appeared at the Paulick Report on February 22, 2026. The Daily Racing Form ran a matching item under the headline Aqueduct cancels Sunday card due to incoming blizzard with reporting credited to David Grening on February 22, 2026. HorseRacingNation ran the NYRA news release and included a photo credit to NYRA / Susie Raisher, while TDN displayed an Adam Coglianese photo credit with its update.

The distributed NYRA text did not include a named NYRA official quote in the excerpts republished by press outlets, and the release supplied to media contains no race-level details beyond identifying the program as an eight-race card. NYRA did not state in the release whether the eight-race card will be rescheduled or run at a later date.

For now the concrete impacts are clear: no live racing at Aqueduct for Sunday, simulcasting offline for the day, and online wagering available through NYRA’s NYRABets platform. News organizations that carried the release include Paulick Report, BloodHorse, HorseRacingNation, Thoroughbred Daily News and Daily Racing Form, reflecting a single NYRA press distribution that reached regional and national racing outlets. Further operational updates would be expected from NYRA’s press office as the storm and official National Weather Service products evolve.