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The facility houses the headquarters of the New York Racing Association (NYRA). In December 2022 the NYRA formally announced its intention to upgrade the facilities at nearby Belmont Park to make it suitable to host year-round thoroughbred racing and training, which would ultimately lead to the closure of Aqueduct Racetrack, sometime in late ...
In 2007, Belmont would make four starts in the Allison Legacy Series, getting a best finish of 21st at Orange County Speedway. [1]In 2009, Belmont would make his ARCA Re/Max Series debut at the age of sixteen, driving the No. 83 Ford for the family owned Andy Belmont Racing at Berlin Raceway, where he would finished six laps down in nineteenth after starting 21st.
Before the 2024 reconstruction, racing at Belmont Park was conducted in two annual installments, or "meetings". The "spring-summer meeting" usually began on the Thursday or Friday of the week before the Kentucky Derby in April and lasts through the first or second Sunday in July, depending on the start of the Saratoga meet that follows.
The 1973 Belmont Stakes was the 105th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, held on June 9, 1973. Facing a field of five horses, Secretariat won by 31 lengths going away (had the race been longer he would have won by even more), the largest margin of victory in Belmont history, in front of a crowd of 69,138 spectators.
Rumors of the race coming to Saratoga emerged when the New York Racing Association scheduled $455 million renovations for Belmont Park in 2024-25 and needed a new place to host the final leg of ...
Kevin Belmont (born February 7, 1964) is an American former professional stock car racing driver and crew chief who has previously competed in the ARCA Re/Max Series. He is the younger brother of former NASCAR and ARCA driver Andy Belmont .
The Belmont Stakes will be held as scheduled Saturday after air quality improved enough for New York officials to reopen Belmont Park on Friday. Belmont Park reopens for racing as air quality improves
The association remodeled Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park, and Saratoga Race Course and demolished Jamaica, which is now the Rochdale Village housing development. The partnership became the New York Racing Association on April 10, 1958. Later, Belmont Park was closed from 1963 to 1968 in order to construct a new grandstand.