Away from the races since a narrow victory over Snap Decision in the Grade 1 Grand National at Far Hills last October which cemented her championship, The Mean Queen was also nominated to Thursday's G1 Lonesome Glory at Aqueduct, but opted for the Entenmann as a softer opportunity to ease back into competition.
Trenton, N.J.: I am writing in response to the commentary “The conundrum of child kinship care” (op-ed, Dec. 13) and false assertions made regarding New Jersey’s child welfare system. The author, Naomi Schaefer Riley, suggested that the state was engaged in a campaign to divert children from entering the foster care system by placing them in informal, unlicensed homes with extended family members, a “shadow child welfare system.”