• 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Richard Hughes (jockey) (category Equestrians from County Dublin)
    Power (2014) Lockinge Stakes – (2) – Paco Boy (2010), Canford Cliffs (2011) Nassau Stakes – (1) – The Fugue (2012) Nunthorpe Stakes – (2) – Oasis Dream...
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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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    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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    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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  • Park track record of 1:46+4⁄5 for 1+1⁄8 miles (1.8 km) in winning the Nassau County Handicap. He finished his racing career with a record of 13: 9-3-1,...
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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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  • 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+3⁄16...
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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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    other top horses. A few weeks later, he scored another victory in the Nassau County Handicap over Pleasant Tap, then the two horses reversed their finishes...
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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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  • Handicap (1978) Mount Vernon Stakes (1979) Violet Handicap (1979) Nassau County Handicap (1980) Secretariat Stakes (1981) Busher Stakes (1982) Excelsior Handicap...
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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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  • political family in New York's Long Island, with a mother serving as a Nassau County Republican committeewoman and a father serving as President of the Long...
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    the Brooklyn Handicap, Metropolitan Handicap and Woodward Stakes to become the leader in stakes earnings for a second time. As a seven-year-old, Forego...
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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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  • Marcel Boussac, Falmouth Stakes, Nassau Stakes, Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, Yellow Ribbon Stakes and Matriarch Stakes Reams of Verse (1996–1997)...
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    includes attractions further out on Long Island, those in Nassau County, New York and Suffolk County, New York, which are not parts of NYC but instead are...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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