Saturday, June 6, 2009

Who is the 2009 Belmont Stakes winner?

Q: Who won the 2009 Belmont Stakes?

A: The winner of the 2009 Belmont Stakes was Summer Bird ridden by Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux.

Dunkirk was second, and Mine That Bird ridden by Calvin Borel came in third.

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What is the largest racetrack in the USA?

Q: What is the largest racetrack in North America?

A: The largest horse-racing track in the United States and Canada is Belmont Park in the hamlet of Elmont, New York, in Nassau County, Long Island, in the Town of Hempstead.

Belmont Park is famous for being the home of the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown.

The dirt racecourse is known officially as the Main Track and its nickname is Big Sandy.

Size: a circumference of 1½ miles (2,414 m), the longest dirt thoroughbred racetrack in North America

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