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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]
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. The race's distance has been ...
The Queens County is, like many races at Aqueduct, named for a New York City borough. Queens is the borough that includes the Aqueduct race track. It is also the largest of New York City's five boroughs. There was no race run in 1909, and from 1911 through 1913. The race, once a graded stakes, has lost that status.
The Sport Page Handicap was an American thoroughbred horse race run annually at Aqueduct Race Track in Ozone Park, Queens, New York for three-year-olds and up. Formerly a Grade III event, it's set at a distance of 7 furlongs on the dirt and offers a purse of $150,000 added.
The Aqueduct Racetrack station is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway.Located on the west side of Aqueduct Racetrack near Pitkin Avenue in the South Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, [6] it is served by northbound A trains at all times [7] and by the northbound Rockaway Park Shuttle during summer weekends.
[6] [7] [8] With Aqueduct slated to reopen in the fall of 1959, Jamaica ceased operations on August 1 and was torn down the following year. [9] [10] Today Rochdale Village a middle income cooperative occupies the former site of the Jamaica Race Course. [5] The racetrack was served by the adjacent Locust Manor station where the Long Island Rail ...
First run in 1895, the race was named for Brooklyn contractor and tugboat captain, William Carter, who put up most of the purse money and provided the trophy. [2] The race was hosted by the old Aqueduct race track from 1895 to 1955, except for 1946 when it was held at Belmont Park. It returned to Belmont Park from 1956 to 1959, 1968 to 1974 ...
The race was first run in 1954 at Aqueduct Racetrack and then at Belmont Park in late September. In 2006, the Woodward was moved to Saratoga Race Course where it was run on the final Saturday of the meet until 2020. The race was moved back to Belmont Park in 2021. [2] The Woodward was run as a handicap in 1954, 1955, and in 1976 and 1977.