Earlier this week, I got a call from a reporter at a publication that covers sports gambling. He was working on a story about what he perceived as an increase in interest in horse racing.

Tuesday, on the National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s teleconference , a reporter asked Michael Banahan, Godolphin’s United States director of bloodstock, about a premise that horse racing was drawing younger fans.

Saturday could give us a little more insight to whether those premises are true.

Saturday is the 157th running of the Belmont Stakes in New York. With Belmont Park still undergoing renovation, the race will be run for a second straight year at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York. Because of Saratoga’s track configuration, the race will again be run at a mile-and-a-quarter instead

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