Just about every place in America where you can bet on a horse, you'll be able to bet on Saratoga races.

There were also 5,414 people at Aqueduct in Queens, watching and betting on the Saratoga races televised from upstate.

By Saturday, though, the quality of Easy Goer's Saratoga race needed no further confirmation.

The Cooks had considered attending the final day of the Saratoga race meet, about a half-hour from their house.

And the Saratoga races generated $322 million in bets on Saratoga races both at the track and elsewhere.

Their horses first appeared in the Saratoga races in 1880.

More than $15 million was bet statewide on the Saratoga races.

At Aqueduct Race Track in Queens, where the Saratoga races were simulcast for betting, the handle dropped 1.7 percent to $1.2 million a day.

By contrast, the total of on- and off-track handle, including three states that took bets on Saratoga races for the first time, rose by about 6.6 percent.

At betting windows across the state, $294 million was chanced on the Saratoga races in the last five weeks.