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  Aqueduct Raceway
Aqueduct Raceway opened on September 27, 1894 in Queens, New York.
Aqueduct Raceway is affectionately called "The Big A" by denizens of the horse racing industry and is widely acknowledged to be among the most important tracks in North America.
After Aqueduct Raceway was finally recognized by The Jockey Club in 1895, track improvements were made.
www.win4real.com /tips/racebook/horse-racing-tracks/aqueduct-raceway.html   (343 words)

  
 queens
It paralleled the aqueduct from which Aqueduct Raceway and Conduit Blvd / N. and S. Conduit Avenues are named.
(The ruins of the remarkable 1889 Romanesque pumping station that served one of the reservoirs along this aqueduct can still be seen from the Long Island Railroad in Freeport, east of the Baldwin station on the south shore).
Linden Boulevard catches its second wind at Rockaway Blvd. and Aqueduct Raceway, and continues all the way to Elmont in Nassau County.
www.forgotten-ny.com /Alleys/queensalleys/queens.html   (2041 words)

  
  Yonkers Raceway Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Aqueduct, Saratoga Race Course, Buffalo Harness, Yonkers Harness, Batavia Downs, Monticello Harness, Goshen, Belmont Park,
Yonkers Raceway 810 Central Avenue Yonkers, NY 10704 Phone: (914) 968-4200...
Yonkers Raceway, considered a city landmark, was first opened in 1899.
www.horseracingnewyork.com /dir/3-8/Yonkers-Raceway   (311 words)

  
 EXCLUSIVE : At the Starting Gate - $225M Yonkers Raceway project on track
After suffering setbacks as aging race fans died off and interest in the sport declined while a new crop of young fans was lured away to OTB parlors and regional gaming casinos, the man with sports and horses in the family bloodline is fighting fire with fire.
But when the state Court of Appeals upheld the law that allowed for the terminals at Yonkers and Aqueduct Raceway in Queens, Yonkers officials chose to settle rather than risk either losing the case or the revenues the project is expected to generate.
The raceway is expected to have a strong economic impact on the city and its schools.
www.westchestercbj.com /archive/090406/0904060022.php   (4175 words)

  
 VLT delay costly to taxpayers -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
It's all about foot-dragging by the state Division of the Lottery over approving a long-overdue deal between the New York Racing Association and MGM to operate 5,000 video lottery terminals at Aqueduct Raceway in Queens.
But more to the political point of the moment, without those VLTs at Aqueduct as a guaranteed revenue stream for the New York Racing Association, a promised $19 million in state bailout money is being held hostage by an oversight board.
This, against the high-stacks backdrop of competing interests to see who will run the state's three major race tracks, Belmont, Saratoga and Aqueduct, when the NYRA franchise is up at the end of next year.
www.timesunion.com /AspStories/story.asp?newsdate=12/5/2006&navigation=nextprior&category=REGIONOTHER&BCCode=LOCAL&storyID=519166   (514 words)

  
 Buffalo Raceway Race Track Info - New York Racing Picks & Tips - HorsesWild
Buffalo Raceway has been a harness racing fixture since the 1960's and was considered one of the top ten tracks in America.
The Raceway had 70 race programs per year during the early days with races from mid May-August.
Buffalo Raceway is now a major contributor to the economy of Western New York.
www.horseswild.com /resource/buffalo.php   (414 words)

  
 AudiWorld Forums: Aqueduct Raceway was called "The Big A", FWIW.
AudiWorld Forums: Aqueduct Raceway was called "The Big A", FWIW.
Aqueduct Raceway was called "The Big A", FWIW.
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forums.audiworld.com /tt/msgs/1094351.phtml   (81 words)

  
 Aqueduct Race Track Info - New York Racing Picks & Tips - HorsesWild
Aqueduct Race Track Info - New York Racing Picks and Tips
Aqueduct opened on Sept. 27, 1894 in Queens, New York.
A new clubhouse and track offices were built in 1941 but the track was torn down in 1956 and re-opened in 1959.
www.horseswild.com /resource/aqueduct.php   (424 words)

  
 Iron Goddess wins at Belmont Raceway for Find A Cure Stable!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
On Saturday, March 10, 2007, this remarkable young race horse rallied in the turn and came in first in the sixth race at Aqueduct Raceway in the BCRF pink silks!
In only the second start of his career, the 4-year-old, New York-bred son of Rodeo brought jockey Eibar Coa home in 1:11.27 for the six furlongs on the fast inner dirt track.
Suzie and Doc O'Cain hope that Call Me Larry will be the first in a long line of horses to carry the BCRF silks and help find a cure for breast cancer.
www.bcrfcure.org /sup_findacurestable.html   (654 words)

  
 Call Me Larry Runs For All Of Our Lives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
If you live in the area, hurry on over to Aqueduct on March 10th to cheer on Call Me Larry.
When BCRF began the annual Saratoga Luncheon event in 2003, local residents Suzie and Doc O'Cain helped to publicize the event on Suzie's morning TV show, "AM Saratoga".
Suzie and her husband Doc, a veterinarian, also helped to arrange special tours of Saratoga Raceway and the backstretch for Evelyn Lauder, Libby Pataki, and Dr. Larry Norton (BCRF Scientific Director and Chairman of BCRF's Medical Advisory Board.
www.bcrfcure.org /eve_07_0310_callmelarry.html   (449 words)

  
 American Academy of Equine Art
Werner Rentsch is best known for his paintings of horses.
His work depicting racing, polo, foxhunting and show jumping has appeared in New York City, Saratoga Springs and at the Headley-Whitney Museum in Lexington, Kentucky, the Aiken Thoroughbred Hall of Fame in South Carolina, Aqueduct Raceway in New York and Meadowlands Racetrack in New Jersey.
He studied painting at the School of Visual Art, Pratt Institute and the Art Students League in New York.
www.aaea.net /galleries/rentsch/default.htm   (168 words)

  
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 1969 in History
March 14 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct
March 14 Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI vs. NZ
August 23 France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
www.brainyhistory.com /years/1969.html   (7079 words)

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