Bettors for historic American Pharoah victory have $315,000 in uncashed tickets (Reuters)

(Reuters) – Thoroughbred racing fans wanting a historical keepsake or possibly a cash windfall from American Pharoah’s Triple Crown-clinching Belmont Stakes victory have not cashed $315,829 worth of $2 win tickets, track officials said on Monday. There were 94,128 $2 tickets purchased on Friday and Saturday at Belmont Park and Aqueduct Racetrack, both run by the New York Racing Association, said Belmont Stakes spokesman John Durso Jr. But after American Pharoah’s 5-1/2-length victory on Saturday that sealed the first Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978, Durso said 90,237 of the $2 tickets – which returned $3.50 – were not cashed.