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Belmont Fashion Essentials: Men's Edition | Belmont Stakes Clubhouse Dress CodeBy ERICA MARCUS. STAFF WRITER; COMPILED BY ED McNAMARA; June 2, 2004 8:00 PM
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A Guide To The Belmont Stakes « CBS New York | Belmont Stakes Clubhouse Dress CodeWhat's to eat at Belmont?
BY ERICA MARCUS. STAFF WRITER
As the Belmont Stakes approaches, millions of admirers are apprehensive if there will
be a new Triple Crown winner. For those planning to absorb the day at the track,
there's addition catechism to contemplate: "What are we activity to eat?"
Belmont Park, it charge be said, is not abundant of a comestible destination. By
the time you apprehend this, seats at the Garden Terrace will accept been appointed long
ago and you will be at the benevolence of the track's assorted concessionaires.
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If your aftertaste runs against Sbarro's pizza and Nathan's hot dogs, you're in
luck. Or if you crave article added exotic, amble over to the aboriginal attic of
the alarm for some West Indian book like broiled goat. Otherwise, you'll
need to accompany your own trough.
The rules administering what you can accompany in alter according to breadth you'll be
consuming it, said Fran Labelle, administrator of communications for the New York
Racing Association.
"No coolers are accustomed in the alarm or any allotment of the building," he
said. But you can accompany coolers into the "backyard," the name accustomed to the
grounds abaft the alarm and adviser breadth for $2 you can absorb the day
picnicking and watching the activity on video monitors. Glass bottles are
prohibited throughout the premises.
Georgine Rausch of Elmont has been accessory the Belmont Stakes for at
least 10 years and has been bringing her own candy for aloof as long. "We
realized appealing aboriginal on that you get athirst and the aliment there isn't so
great," she said. Her acceptable meal is continued baguettes abounding with brie and
ham, melancholia bake-apple and and [plastic] bottled baptize to ablution it down. Dessert is
always brownies. Rausch's brie-and- baptize agenda is hardly typical. "You see a
lot of sandwiches that bodies best up at the deli, and a lot of beer," she
said.
Bringing sandwiches and beer is a above attitude for Tony Cocco of
Beverly, Mass., and his busload of assembly who biking to the Belmont Stakes
every year. The admeasurement of the accumulation ranges from seven to 15, and anniversary man brings
a acknowledgment with a 30-pack of beer. Cocco and a acquaintance accompany two gallons of Bloody
Mary's. The bus stops off at a cafeteria for two trays of bagels - one with butter,
the added with chrism cheese - and two pre-sliced 10-foot subs. The aftermost few
years, a brace of buckets of KFC accept additionally been added to the mix.
Although they pay acceptance to the grandstand, best years they aloof hang
out in the barbecue breadth and watch the contest on video monitors, beer in one hand,
sub in the other.
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And they're off! A guide to Belmont Stakes Day | oranges to apples | Belmont Stakes Clubhouse Dress CodeBelmont's no-bottles action can put a coil in cooler plans. Beer
drinkers will resort to the park's bashful abstract offerings or to bringing in
their own cans. Henry Epstein of Young's Liquor in Manhasset brash serious
beer drinkers to accompany forth the new 16-ounce cans of Guinness Draught that are
equipped with a patented artificial "widget" that, according to the brewer,
"releases a admixture of beer and nitrogen that creates a billow of bubbles."
On the wine front, Epstein appropriate a boxed wine. Almaden, he said, sells
cabernet, merlot and chardonnay at $11.99 for bristles liters. He additionally recommended
Peter Vella's Delicious Red, not technically a wine but "grape wine with
natural flavors," that sells for $9.49. "These boxed wines are actual palatable,"
he said. "You're not activity to get abundant stuff, but afterwards all, it's a horse
race."
Local take-out spots
For antagonism admirers who appetite to be a bit added adventurous, Belmont's surrounding
environs action a advanced take-out selection.
Fiza Diner (259-07 Hillside Avenue, Floral Park, 718-347-3100) claims to
serve "America's Best Grilled Kebabs," forth with abounding added Pakistani dishes.
Straddling the Brooklyn- Queens line, the Lindenwood Diner (2870 Linden
Boulevard, 718-235-6343) has a all-inclusive agenda that encompasses not alone diner
cuisine, but Caribbean book as well. And aloof beyond the bound in Nassau
County, the admirable pizzeria King Umberto (1339 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont,
516-352-8391) opens at 11 a.m. on Saturdays and sells a ambit of Italian
specialties including the addictive abode appropriate of absurd capellini balls,
delicious cold.
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Some added FAQs
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How can I get in?
Just airing up to the adviser aboideau and pay $5 or to the alarm entrance
and pay $2 for accepted admission.
How can I get a seat?
Unfortunately, all abiding seats were gone weeks ago, and the 5,000
temporary seats were awash out aftermost week. You can adhere out in the packed
backyard, barbecue and watch the contest on television monitors.
What will the army be like?
A massive cartage jam abreast the clue is affirmed on Belmont Stakes Day,
especially this one, back the New York Antagonism Association expects Smarty Jones'
Triple Crown bid to draw a almanac army abutting 120,000.
How abundant is parking?
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Fashion at the Races | Belmont Stakes Fashion 2013 | Belmont Stakes Clubhouse Dress CodeIt costs $5 for accepted parking and $15 for adopted parking. There's no
valet parking on Belmont Day.
How aboriginal should I arrive?
The parking gates accessible at 8:15 a.m., and the acceptance gates at 8:30. The
first chase is at noon, so accession by 10 would be wise. Stake out your picnic
spot early.
What is there do to amid the time I get there and the big race?
Eat, alcohol and bet. There will be 13 races, the aboriginal at apex and the last
at 7:52. The Belmont Stakes is the 11th race, with a appointed column time of
6:38.
When can I bet?
To exhausted the assured continued lines, try to accomplish your bets early. Advance
bets on any chase can be fabricated at any time. Action windows will accessible at 10:30
a.m.
How do I abode a bet?
Make abiding you acquaint the mutuel agent the cardinal of the chase and the number
of the horse or horses you're betting. Don't say "$5 to win on Smarty Jones."
Say "11th race, $5 to win on the 9 [his number]."
The minimum bet is $1, except on the Aces 6 (selecting after winners
in six races), breadth the minimum is $2. If you're new to the game, abstain the
Pick 6. It's too adamantine to hit and costs too much.
On Belmont Day, anniversary chase from the additional through the 11th begins a Aces 3
(selecting three after winners). A Aces 4 begins in chase 8 and ends with
the Belmont Stakes.
If you appetite to accumulate it simple, you can bet to win, abode (second) and show
(third). You can can bet exactas (horses charge run 1-2 in the adjustment you pick).
To bet an exacta, say "$2 exacta, 4-6." To box an exacta, which costs alert as
much but gives you two affairs to collect, say "$2 exacta box, 4-6." That will
cost $4 instead of $2.
The aforementioned applies to trifectas (picking the aboriginal three finishers in order).
They're abundant harder to hit than exactas but pay a lot better.
What can I accompany inside?
Coolers are accustomed alone in the backyard of the grandstand. No glass
containers are permitted, but cans and artificial bottles are OK. Coolers can't be
taken through the adviser gates.
How fast do the horses run?
A thoroughbred's top acceleration is about 40 mph, but they can't advance that
pace for added than a division of a mile. Secretariat ran the 1 1/2-mile Belmont
in a world-record 2:24 (a clip of 37 1/2 mph) in his 31-length delinquent in 1973.
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How should I dress?
Casually, and in layers. Accompany an umbrella, aloof in case, and a light
jacket. If it's sunny, abrasion a baseball cap. In the clubhouse, no catchbasin tops. In
the grandstand, shirts and shoes are required.
What happens if it rains?
You'll apparently get wet, admitting the anticipation is for alone a 20-percent
chance of rain. There are no rainouts in horse racing, so the appearance will go on.
There are nine horses in the field. Is that ample or small?
It's not large, but it's bigger than anticipated, because how easily
Smarty Jones won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. Aftermost year, alone six
horses ran; the better acreage in the accomplished 20 years was 14 in 1996.
What's a carnation blanket?
The Kentucky Derby champ wears roses, the Preakness champ is draped with
Black-Eyed Susans, and a carnation absolute covers Belmont's champ. The official
flower of the Belmont Stakes is the white carnation, and the absolute -
comprised of 300 to 400 flowers - takes one 10 hours to assemble.
Will Smarty Jones win the Triple Crown?
The cutting majority of handicappers anticipate he will end the 26-year
drought. He is so abundant added accomplished than his opponents that the Belmont is
Smarty's chase to lose. Yet aberrant things can appear in horse races, especially
when aeon is on the line.
Can I booty the LIRR?
The MTA will accommodate added Continued Island Rail Road account to Belmont Park on
race day. The LIRR is alms a amalgamation acceptance that entitles cartage to a
$1 abatement off the $2 alarm admission. Those should be purchased at
ticket windows or machines. For added information, see the appropriate Belmont
Stakes calendar agenda or appointment the LIRR's Web armpit at www.mta.info.
Is there a Belmont drink?
Not to be outdone by the Kentucky Derby's Mint Julep or the
Preakness' Black-Eyed Susan, the official alcohol of the Belmont Stakes is a
libation alleged a White Carnation, which aloof so happens to be the type
flowers that are draped over the acceptable horse. Here's the recipe:
2 oz vodka
1/2 oz acceptable schnapps
2 oz orange juice
soda water
splash of cream
Stir, cascade over ice and adornment with an orange slice. For the curious, at
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