During the Aqueduct winter meeting, horses started breaking down, a lot of them, many more than usual.
Racing began at Saratoga Race Course in 1863, at Aqueduct in 1894, and at Belmont Park in 1905.
Blum also has a share in Aqueduct, which hawks the software used to handle Buy.com's sales and shipments.
McNair purchased a 50% interest in Street Life after the horse won his first race, at Aqueduct last month.
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Aerial pictures of a Roman aqueduct show it built north of the wall and right next to a native settlement.
Brits developed part of the area and built an extensive aqueduct for mining, only to abandon it during the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Vyjack, 15-1 on the Derby morning line, won his first four races, including the Jerome and the Gotham stakes at Aqueduct.
The 55-year-old Wilkenfeld can sound like an awed little kid when he talks about visiting his horse on the Aqueduct backstretch.
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Work is already underway on the 18th Century aqueduct which was recently targeted by vandals and thieves who stole eight stone balustrades.
We traversed the top of a crumbled aqueduct for a few hundred yards, then reached steep rocks devoid of flora or fauna.
But while the Harbaughs were making headlines, two brothers were quietly putting on quite a show at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens.
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That figure included the so-called aqueduct in early December in which two public holidays fell on Tuesday and Thursday of the same week.
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He recently tied for the training title with 110 victories at Aqueduct, his fourth title at the track where his stable is based.
During that time, the New York Racing Association, which runs Belmont, Saratoga and Aqueduct, suffered through bankruptcy, an ethics scandal, and a franchise battle.
To supply the huge reservoirs, miles of aqueduct were constructed and rivers were diverted by fantastic pumping projects dreamed up by top military engineers.
They would choose Aneurin Bevan and Bryn Terfel as ambassadors for the north and see the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Llangollen Bridge as their heritage icons.
Even Jeffrey Bezos, the founder of Amazon, now offers his own e-tail services to such old-line merchants as Target and Borders, as Blum's Aqueduct does.
Update: On Monday at Aqueduct, Irad won five races, Jose one.
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The area took off in 1896, when the Roman-inspired aqueduct that brought water to the city centre was transformed into tracks for Rio's new electric tram, the bonde.
For her part, Ms. Restrepo, of the Rusticae network, says she is resigned to the bridge ban, which includes the suppression of her beloved December aqueduct.
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"It's an amazing feeling, an amazing ride, " Wilkenfeld said Monday, two days after Vyjack improved to 4-for-4 by rallying to win the Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct.
He was the first jockey to win nine races in a single day, accomplishing that on Oct. 31, 1987, with mounts at Aqueduct and the Meadowlands.
It tells the story of Marcus Attilius, an engineer in charge of the Aqua Augusta, a vast aqueduct that feeds the towns around the Bay of Naples.
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 Ozone Park.
During that March race at Aqueduct when Elle's Vision went off without its jockey, she lost her bearings the moment she reached the middle of the first corner.
Situated in north-eastern Wales, the 18 kilometre long Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal is a feat of civil engineering of the Industrial Revolution, completed in the early years of the 19th century.
Aqueduct also called off Saturday's card because of the storm.
After posting his first win at Aqueduct in November, Orb emerged a top Derby horse by reeling off three straight wins at Gulfstream Park, culminating with the Florida Derby.
In the only race he won as a 3-year-old, the 2004 Wood Memorial at New York's Aqueduct Racetrack, he rallied from last place and won, despite having a cold.
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The blaze broke out Thursday just north of Powerhouse No. 1, a hydroelectric plant near the Los Angeles Aqueduct, forcing about 200 evacuations in the mountain community of Green Valley.
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