{"id":283026,"date":"2026-07-01T00:31:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/283026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T00:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:31:57","slug":"photo-essay-aqueduct-race-track-closes-after-a-good-run-of-over-130-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/283026\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTO ESSAY: Aqueduct Race Track closes after &#8216;A Good Run&#8217; of over 130 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Aqueduct Race Track ran its final races Sunday as the venerable New York City horse racing facility prepares to close its doors after more than 130 years in business.<\/p>\n<p>The goodbye to \u201cthe Big A\u201d included a long line of patrons, a cake commemorating the occasion and a final race aptly named, \u201cIt Was a Good Run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aqueduct is closing as part of a consolidation of New York racing at Belmont Park, just outside the city limits on Long Island, and Saratoga Race Course upstate. It will remain open for simulcasting until September, when Belmont reopens following a half-billion-dollar reconstruction project.<\/p>\n<p>The final day of racing at the Queens track was a bittersweet mix of sadness over the track\u2019s closure and a celebration of the sport\u2019s history and roots, including jockeys greeting the festive crowd after riding there for the last time.<\/p>\n<p>This is a documentary photo story curated by AP photo editors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MyNWBreakingNewsEmail-300X250.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MyNWBreakingNewsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Aqueduct Race Track ran its final races Sunday as the venerable New York City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-283026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}