• The Nassau County Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Belmont Park in Elmont, Nassau County, New York. A Grade III event, it...
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    Nassau County (/ˈnæsɔː/ NASS-aw) is a suburban county located on Long Island, immediately to the east of New York City, bordering the Long Island Sound...
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    is divided among four counties, with Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, and Nassau counties occupying its western third and Suffolk County its eastern two-thirds...
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    Elmont, New York (category Census-designated places in Nassau County, New York)
    census-designated place (CDP) located in northwestern Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, United States, along its border with the borough of Queens...
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  • Garden City, New York, a village in the Town of Hempstead in central Nassau County located near the racetrack. Speed record: (at current distance of 1+1⁄4...
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  • Nashua Stakes (1996) Federico Tesio Stakes (2000) Jamaica Handicap (2001) Nassau County Stakes (2001) Oceanport Stakes (2003) Giant's Causeway Stakes (2006)...
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  • least one race at Saratoga. Among his many winning horses were several stakes winners, including Geraldine's Store, who won the Diana Handicap in 1983;...
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  • (2002) Mother Goose Stakes (2002) Violet Handicap (2002) Nassau County Stakes (2002) William Donald Schaefer Handicap (2003) Pilgrim Stakes (2006) Breeders'...
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  • Racing and Hall of Fame in 1988 and in 2001, he was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame. In 2010 he was inducted into the African-American...
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  • circumference. The current layout has the entire racing course inside Nassau County. The Belmont Stakes was named after financier and sportsman August Belmont Sr...
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    Tom Queally (category Equestrians from County Waterford)
    and Cecil followed (Timepiece in the Falmouth Stakes and the evergreen Midday winning a third Nassau Stakes at Goodwood); while Frankel went on to an easy...
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    Hewlett, New York (category Census-designated places in Nassau County, New York)
    hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 6,819...
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  • the Prince of Wales's Stakes. A few years later they bred and owned Cistus who won the Lupe Stakes, Child Stakes, Nassau Stakes and the Prix de l'Opéra...
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    West Hempstead, New York (category Census-designated places in Nassau County, New York)
    hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 19,835...
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    Kentucky Derby, by a neck in the Preakness and by a head in the Belmont Stakes. Alydar has been described as the best horse in the history of Thoroughbred...
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    Oisin Murphy (category Equestrians from County Kerry)
    wins for Murphy in 2019, including aboard Japanese mare Deirdre in the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood and an international success on Suave Richard in the Japan...
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  • endemic to the Bahamas Bahamas Stakes, a horse race run annually in Hialeah, Florida Bahamasair, an airline based in Nassau, Bahamas Grand Bahama, the northernmost...
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    Rockville Centre, New York (category Villages in Nassau County, New York)
    RVC, is an incorporated village located in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The...
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  • three-year-old at that distance, the Choice Stakes, the Jerome Handicap, the Discovery Handicap, the Lawrence Realization Stakes, the Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap...
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    Justify (horse) (category Preakness Stakes winners)
    2018. He went on to win the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes to become the 13th Triple Crown winner. He was retired undefeated...
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    Kissam Vanderbilt II launches the Vanderbilt Cup at a course set out in Nassau County, New York on Long Island. It creates controversy in New York with numerous...
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    Johnny Murtagh (category Equestrians from County Meath)
    (2) – Choisir (2003), Sole Power (2013) Middle Park Stakes – (1) – Bushranger (2008) Nassau Stakes – (2) – Peeping Fawn (2007), Halfway to Heaven (2008)...
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  • racehorse that had success in racing and became an important sire. A multiple Stakes race winner who set a Monmouth Park track record that stood for nineteen...
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    Staffordstown Stud Stakes. In the following year she finished second in the Irish 1,000 Guineas before winning the Prix de Diane and Nassau Stakes. Fancy Blue...
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    Harbor Stakes Broadway Stakes (NYB) Busanda Stakes Busher Stakes Cat Cay Stakes Cicada Stakes Count Fleet Stakes Damon Runyon Stakes Discovery Stakes East...
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    interests in China and relocated to Nassau, Bahamas. During the 1950s, Sassoon lived at his home on Cable Beach in Nassau. He also spent time in the remote...
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  • new Belmont Park track record of 1:46 4/5 for 1⅛ miles in winning the Nassau County Handicap. He finished his racing career with a record of 13: 9-3-1,...
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  • hotels. Then, in 1995, Ruffin acquired the Crystal Palace casino resort in Nassau in the Bahamas. Mortgaging the casino, Ruffin then purchased the New Frontier...
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  • Jim Bolger (racehorse trainer) (category Equestrians from County Kilkenny)
    Approach (2012) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes - (1) - St Jovite (1992) Nassau Stakes - (2) - Park Express (1986), Alexander Goldrun (2005)...
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    Park in Queens. The Belmont Stakes, part of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, is held at Belmont Park in Nassau County on Long Island. Several U...
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