The Belmont Derby is New York Racing Association Grade 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses with set weight conditions run over distance of 1 1⁄4 miles annually on the turf at Belmont Park in Elmont on Long Island, New York, USA in July. The purse for the event is US$1,250,000.
In 2014 the race was renamed from the Jamaica Handicap to current name and moved from October to July with and increase of distance from 1 1⁄8 miles to 1 1⁄4 miles and increase in stakes from $500,000 to $1,250,000.
The original race name was named after the Jamaica District in Queens, New York. The first running took place in 1929 at the Jamaica Racetrack. When the Jamaica track closed in 1959, the race was shifted to the Aqueduct Race Track in Queens where it was contested in 1960, 1975 to 1977, 1979 to 1981, and 1987.
It was raced at a distance of six furlongs from 1929 to 1953 and 1957 to 1960, then at 1 1⁄8 miles (9 furlongs) in 1954, and from 1997 through the present.
Jamaica (i/dʒəˈmeɪkə/) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea, comprising the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles. The island, 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi) in area, lies about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 191 kilometres (119 mi) west of Hispaniola, the island containing the nation-states of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Jamaica is the fifth-largest island country in the Caribbean.
Previously inhabited by the indigenous Arawak and Taíno peoples, the island came under Spanish rule following the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Named Santiago, it remained a possession of Spain until 1655, when England (later Great Britain) conquered the island and renamed it Jamaica. Under British rule, Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter, with its plantation economy highly dependent on slaves imported from Africa, followed later by Chinese and Indian indentured labour. All slaves were fully emancipated in 1838, with independence from the United Kingdom achieved on 6 August 1962.
"Jamaica" is a song by Canadian rock group Bachman–Turner Overdrive that appears on the 1979 album Rock n' Roll Nights. It features Jim Clench on lead vocals. It was written by well-known songwriter Jim Vallance. It was released as a single but did not chart. The song, along with "Heartaches," was played live on American Bandstand in February 1979 to support the Rock n' Roll Nights album release.
Using different lyrics, Rick Springfield remade the song under the title "Kristina" on his 1982 album Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet.
Jamaica : A Novel (2007) is a novel by Australian author Malcolm Knox. It won the Colin Roderick Award in 2007, and was shortlisted for the Fiction category of the 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.
A group of 6 Australian friends - white, middle-aged males - combine to compete in a marathon relay swim in treacherous waters off Jamaica. But even before the race begins fractures appear in the relationships, with drug-taking, hidden secrets and personal crises coming to dominate.
RADIO STATION | GENRE | LOCATION |
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Reggae141 | Reggae | Jamaica |
Boneyaad Radio | Reggae | Jamaica |
Power 106 | World,Reggae | Jamaica |
NCU 91.1 | Christian Contemporary | Jamaica |
StylzFM | Reggae | Jamaica |