Aqueduct

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About Aqueduct

Aqueduct Racetrack, known to racing fans as "the Big A," is a Thoroughbred track in the South Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York. Opened in 1894 and extensively rebuilt in the late 1950s, it has long served as the New York Racing Association's winter and early-spring home, racing on a one-mile main dirt oval with an inner track historically used for cold-weather cards. Its most important race is the Grade 2 Wood Memorial Stakes, a major Kentucky Derby prep that awards qualifying points toward a starting spot in the Run for the Roses. Aqueduct is one of NYRA's three tracks, alongside Belmont Park and Saratoga, and shares its grounds with the Resorts World casino. The track is scheduled to run its final live races in 2026, after which downstate New York racing is set to consolidate at a rebuilt Belmont Park.