«With the potential for the nation's first Triple Crown in more than three decades, this year's Belmont Stakes holds particular excitement
for horse racing fans here in New York and across the globe,» Cuomo said.
After winning the Kentucky Derby as the +300 favorite,
many horse racing fans speculated that Nyquist would duplicate American Pharoah's feat by winning the Triple Crown.
Most horse racing fans experience this excitement not at the race track but at off track betting parlors, like the one at Batavia Downs outside Buffalo, New York.
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Arlington Million with America's Best Racing, a multimedia platform that aims to attract
new horse racing fans by building awareness about how much fun the sport is.
The latter attracted 261,000
horse racing fans across the four days and remains one of the highlights of the sporting calendar.