After six long months of racing at Aqueduct, the last week of the spring meet is upon us as Belmont Park will open its doors one week from today on Wednesday, May 2nd. Before the welcomed change of scenery takes place though, there remains plenty of unfinished business at the Big A.

Through Sunday’s fifth race, Ramon Dominguez held a seven-win lead over Alan Garcia for the Aqueduct spring main track jockey’s title. Dominguez’s usual nemesis, Eibar Coa, missed a good chunk of the short meet while serving a suspension and his streak of consecutive riding titles will end at three.

Dominguez will not be riding here next week and returned to his Delaware Park base following Sunday’s last race. Garcia, however, will be here the entire week. Both jocks are seeking their first riding title at a NYRA track.

The race for leading trainer is also close with Richard Dutrow Jr. at nine wins through Sunday’s fifth leading brother, Tony Dutrow, and Gary Contessa, who each have seven victories.

Contessa won the inner track title in a runaway and also was the leading conditioner at Aqueduct’s fall main track meet. Richard Dutrow Jr. won the title at Belmont’s Fall Championship Meet last year and Tony Dutrow has never won a title in New York.

As far as the racing is concerned for the last week of the meet, there should be plenty of turf racing, including the first two grass stakes of the year in New York.

The Grade 3, $100,000 Beaugay for fillies and mares at a mile and a sixteenth on the turf will be run Saturday. It looks like trainer Todd Pletcher has the mare to beat in the Beaugay with Green Hills Farm’s Cassydora. The British-bred filly is 3-for-3 under Pletcher with recent stakes wins in Tampa Bay Downs’ Endeavour Breeders’ Cup and the Grade 3 Hillsborough.

Also expected for the Beaugay are Masseuse, third behind Cassydora in the Hillsborough, the tough New York-bred Finlandia, Factual Contender and Wait It Out. Possible starters include Calla Lily, Hostess, Meribel, Moon Dolly and Pictavia.

As exciting as the first grass stakes of the season is, the Beaugay will take a back seat to the Grade 3, $150,000 Withers at one mile, featuring talented three-year-olds that are not quite ready for the Triple Crown trail.

Darley Stable’s Elusive Warning has been very impressive in a pair of starts over the inner track, breaking his maiden and taking an entry-level allowance race in convincing fashion. The Kiaran McLaughlin-trained colt will get his first test past six furlongs in the Withers.

Robert LaPenta’s C P West, the runner-up in last fall’s Grade 2 Futurity, will make his second start of 2007 in the Withers. The Came Home colt’s seasonal debut was a nose loss to Frosty Secret in a Gulfstream allowance, but he should be primed to move forward Saturday. C P West will face Frosty Secret again in the Withers.

Street Magician, owned by Larry Johnson, comes into the Withers off a win in Gulfstream’s Aventura March 31st. The Street Cry colt is 2-for-3 with his only loss suffered to Blue Bullet first-time out.

Blue Bullet will be in the Withers as well exiting a disappointing performance in the Aventura in which he was beaten 12 ¼ lengths in eighth.

Rounding out the field for the Withers will be Brisco N Logan, Mint Slewlep and possibly Cherokee Country.

Sunday’s top stakes race will be the Grade 3, $100,000 Fort Marcy at a mile and a sixteenth on the turf. Grand Couturier is probably the horse to beat in the Fort Marcy after his experiences in tough races last year. After winning the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris, the colt was shipped to trainer Bobby Ribaudo’s barn and ran third in the Sword Dancer before finishing out his season with a fourth in Woodbine’s Sky Classic.

Baron Von Tap, Ecclesiastic, Pa Pa Da and Woodlander are all confirmed starters for the Fort Marcy with Ascertain, Cosmic Kris, Evening Attire, Minister’s Joy and Yankee Master listed as possible.

Sharing the spotlight on Sunday’s card will be the $65,000 Kings Point for New York breds at a mile and an eighth. Funny Cide, the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, will have his work cut out for him when he faces the likes of Empire Classic winner Organizer, the speedy Accountforthegold, Carminooch, Spite the Devil and Who What Win.

The Kings Point was one of two wins last season for Funny Cide, who also won the Dominion Day at Woodbine. The likeable gelding did not fare too well in his last start, finishing a well-beaten seventh in a classy allowance race over the Polytrack at Keeneland.