NYRA offers $1 million to Japan-based Belmont Stakes winner

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The Japanese handle would explode. Bloodhorse:

Since a 2015 law change that allows Japan to simulcast a limited number of international races each year, Japan took simulcast wagering on a race from the United States for the first time in the 2016 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1T), which featured Japanese-bred multiple graded stakes winner Nuovo Record. Japanese horseplayers wagered approximately $7.68 million on the single race, according to figures reported by the BloodHorse, despite the race being run locally at 4:43 a.m. on a Sunday morning.

Japanese racing fans also wagered close to $40 million on the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1) from Chantilly Racecourse, Japan's first imported simulcast race after the new law went into effect.