Long considered something of a dump, the Aqueduct grandstand will be unrecognizable to those who last saw it as a winter home for the pigeons in OzonePark.
In a sport whose revenues have been steadily declining, the prospect of an infusion of slots money was tantalizingly close, but as far as away as Albany from OzonePark.
And at about 3:45 this afternoon, at Aqueduct Racetrack in OzonePark in Queens, the Jimmy Winkfield Stakes will be run, the only race to be run today that will commemorate the contributions and accomplishments of African-Americans in racing.