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Riverhead Raceway is a quarter-mile (402 m) oval race track with a Figure 8 course, [2] located in Riverhead, New York. [1] It is the only auto racing venue on Long Island since Westhampton Raceway closed down in 2003. [3] It started being built in 1949 [1] and opened as a dirt track in 1951, before permanently changing to asphalt in 1955. [2]
The Long Island Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in November at Aqueduct Racetrack, in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. The race is for fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race the one and one-half miles on the turf. Formerly a Grade II event, the race was downgraded to Grade III status in 2007.
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Hall of Fame horse Cigar won the first two races in his 16-race win streak at Aqueduct. After he switched from grass to dirt, Cigar's first win was by eight lengths in an allowance race on October 28, 1994, and was followed by a seven-length win in the NYRA Mile on November 26, 1994, a Grade 1 race that was renamed in the horse's honor in 1997.
The Long Island Marathon is an annual marathon foot-race run on Long Island, New York, United States. The 42.195-kilometre (26.219 mi) event was first run in 1973 as The Earth Day Marathon . Originally the race consisted of loops around Roosevelt Raceway and Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, New York.
Belmont Park is a seasonal-use Long Island Rail Road station on the grounds of the Belmont Park racetrack in the New York City borough of Queens.The station is a terminus of a spur line that lies south of and between the Queens Village and Elmont–UBS Arena stations on the Main Line/Hempstead Branch.
New York has become a critical state in the presidential and congressional races for the 2024 election, including on Long Island, where several important races are taking center stage.
UBS Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena located within Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, on Long Island. The venue is situated directly adjacent to the eastern limits of the borough of Queens in New York City. Opened in 2021, it is the home of the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL), replacing the Nassau Coliseum and ...