Ever hear of the Scientific Method?
It's a technique for experimentation where you hold all other things constant to measure the effect of the one variable being studied.
So, when you see the state of horse racing in 2015 as a constant, and the variable is whether or not we had a Triple Crown winner, are you going to assert that having it is no better than not having it?
I think not.
As you pointed out, at least there was attention and interest. Some of that will carry over. Even more so if American Pharoah goes to the Haskell as announced today, and hopefully the Travers and Breeders' Cup Classic. He'll be in the news again and people will be interested. Imagine if he wins the Haskell and Travers? The Breeders' Cup could be huge.
Not trying to be critical, but you had to really bend that curve to make the Triple Crown success into a negative for horse racing. It didn't matter what the inputs were - the answer was negative. f(x) = "pessimism".
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