Belmont Park
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| Location | 2150 Hempstead Turnpike Elmont, New York 11003, United States |
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| Owned by | State of New York |
| Operated by | New York Racing Association |
| Date opened | May 4, 1905 |
| Screened on | NBC (Belmont Stakes) |
| Course type | Flat/Thoroughbred |
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Belmont Stakes Jockey Club Gold Cup Manhattan Handicap Metropolitan Handicap Champagne Stakes Suburban Handicap Vosburgh Stakes Beldame Stakes Acorn Stakes Mother Goose Stakes Coaching Club American Oaks Man O' War Stakes Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational Frizette Stakes |
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Belmont Park is a major Thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in Elmont, New York, just outside New York City limits. It first opened on May 4, 1905. It is typically open for racing throughout May and June and into late July, and again from late September through late October.
It is widely known as the home of the Belmont Stakes, regarded as the "Test of the Champion", the third leg of the Triple Crown.
Belmont is known as "The Championship Track" because almost every major champion in racing history since the early 20th century has competed on the racecourse—including each of the 12 Triple Crown winners. Along with Saratoga Race Course, in Upstate New York, Keeneland Race Course, in Lexington, Kentucky, Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky, and Del Mar and Santa Anita racecourses, in Southern California, Belmont is considered one of the elite racetracks in the sport.
Belmont hosted its largest crowd in 2004, when 120,139 saw Smarty Jones upset by Birdstone in its Triple Crown bid.
Belmont Park is operated by the non-profit New York Racing Association, as are Aqueduct and Saratoga Race Course. The group was formed in 1955 as the Greater New York Association to assume the assets of the individual associations that ran Belmont, Aqueduct, Saratoga Race Course, and the now-defunct Jamaica Racetrack.
Belmont Park also has a history of early aviation shows and tournaments that dates back to the early 1900s.
Harriet Quimby, the first USA woman to obtain a pilot's license, learned of the excitement of flight at the Belmont Park International Aviation Tournament on Long Island, New York in 1910 where she met famed aviator John Moisant and his sister.,
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