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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.
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.
Riverhead Raceway is a 0.250 mi (0.402 km) 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]
Horse racing in the United States dates back to 1665, which saw the establishment of the Newmarket course in Salisbury, New York, a section of what is now known as the Hempstead Plains of Long Island, New York. [1] This first racing meet in North America was supervised by New York's colonial governor, Richard Nicolls.
Out of this spirit of competition grew a unique form of racing team, which although can be found in a few different areas across the United States, has its roots with and is most widely practiced in the Long Island region of New York State. What began long ago as simple, unsophisticated footraces have evolved into season-long competitions ...
The race to replace outgoing Rep. Tom Suozzi in a newly redrawn Long Island congressional district is heating up ahead of fast-approaching Aug. 23 primary election. ... at New York's gubernatorial ...
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.
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