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Belmont Park | horse racing track, horse riding centre

USA / New York / Bellerose / Hempstead Turnpike, 2150
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Home of the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown. Most of Belmont Park is located in Elmont, NY. The LIRR runs seasonal trains to this Race Track from Jamaica and Penn Station. Originally known as Foster’s Meadow, the 650 acres of land included a turreted Tudor-Gothic mansion owned by William de Forest Manice, which was to serve as the track’s Turf and Field Club until 1956. It began in 1902, when a syndicate headed by August Belmont II and former Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney sought land on Long Island to build the most elaborate track in America, one modeled after the great race courses of Europe.



2150 Hempstead Turnpike
Elmont, NY 11003
(718) 641-4700
www.nyra.com/belmont/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont_Park
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Coordinates:   40°42'51"N   73°43'5"W

Comments

  • nguyen duc hoa (guest)
    beautyful
  • seafordian
    I would like to congratulate American Pharaoh for breaking the 37 year Triple Crown drought!
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