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Aerial view of Aqueduct's main track, inner dirt track and turf course, 2010 Main clubhouse entrance to Aqueduct Racetrack. Aqueduct Racetrack is a Thoroughbred horse racing facility and casino in the South Ozone Park and Jamaica neighborhoods of Queens, New York City, United States. [1] Aqueduct is the only racetrack located within New York ...
The Belmont Stakes race was held at Aqueduct Racetrack from 1963 to 1967, while the track at Belmont was restored and renovated. The largest crowd of the 20th century was in 1971 with over 80,000 people, supplemented by the city's Latino community, there to cheer on their new hero, Cañonero II , the Venezuelan colt who had won the Kentucky ...
The event was inaugurated on 30 December 1978 at Aqueduct Racetrack and run on the dirt track. [1] The race is named in honor of Elizabeth Arden's Beaugay, the American Champion Two-Year-old of 1945. [2] In 1979, the Beaugay Handicap was raced in two divisions. [3] [4] In 1983 NYRA moved the race to Belmont Park and was run on the turf course ...
Tough luck if you’re looking for historical trends to help you pick a winner in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, Steven Kornacki writes in his race preview.
Belmont Stakes post time. Post time is scheduled for 4:41 p.m. MT on Saturday and this year's race will be contested at 10 furlongs (1 1/4 miles) instead of 12 (1 1/2 miles).
Moved to its present home at Belmont Park for the 1905 racing season, it was run at the Aqueduct Racetrack in 1959, from 1963 to 1967, and again in 1984. Over the years, the Champagne Stakes has been raced over a variety of distances: Six furlongs : 1871–1889; Seven furlongs : 1891–1904
On May 19, 1971, Ogden Phipps' Numbered Account set a Fashion Stakes record of 0:57 2/5 for five furlongs on dirt at Aqueduct Racetrack. [ 7 ] On June 12, 1974, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Janney's Ruffian set a Fashion Stakes record that also equaled the Belmont Park track record of 1:03 flat for the then race distance of 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs on dirt.
In 1961, the Aqueduct Handicap was run at Belmont Park. The race was renamed the Aqueduct Stakes from 1962 to 1965 and in 1967 and 1968. In 1973 it was restricted to 2-year-old horses and was won by Cannonade who went on to win the 1974 Kentucky Derby. On January 17, 2009 it was run as the Evening Attire Stakes.