New-Look ABRV Returns This Weekend
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Check out the time-lapse video of the 2014 ABRV being wrapped with its new design.
It’s back! The biggest, baddest and boldest bus in the world of sports – the America’s Best Racing RV (ABRV) - makes its grand return this week. The 45-foot long icon of America’s Best Racing’s initiative to develop new horse racing fans has been completely redesigned ahead of its 2014 launch at Monmouth Park on Saturday, May 10 and Belmont Park on Sunday, May 11.
The all-new bus was the official travel vehicle of the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team on their thrilling run to the championship game of the 2014 NCAA Basketball Tournament. The ABRV is wrapped, top to bottom, with a brand-new design showcasing the very best of Thoroughbred horse racing.
Speaking of the best, we also made it a point to showcase 2012 and 2013 Horse of the Year Wise Dan as one of the focal points of the new design.
Inside, it has been fitted with flat screen televisions, among other amenities, that make it the ultimate vehicle to educate new fans about our great sport.
Last year, the ABRV made more than a dozen stops in cities all over the United States to showcase some of the best racing our sport has to offer. This year's ABRV tour is keeping the same theme with stops all across the nation in an effort to attract a new and younger fan base to the sport of Thoroughbred racing. Most stops on the 2014 ABRV tour will coincide with the locations and races covered during the new Jockey Club Tour on Fox.
The ABRV will make its season debut in Oceanport, N.J., for opening day at Monmouth Park. The track, just minutes from the Jersey Shore, is a summer racing landmark and the home of the $1-million, Grade 1 Haskell Invitational Stakes in July. The ABRV will return to Monmouth Park and Oceanport from June 13-16, a trip highlighted by one of the highlights of the U.S. racing calendar: the Grade 1, $750,000 United Nations Stakes.
After the ABRV’s initial rollout this Saturday, the bus journeys north to Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., on Sunday. There, the ABRV will host America’s Best Racing guests for a huge day of racing covered by FOX Sports 1, including the Grade 1, $400,000 Man o’ War Stakes, Grade 2, $250,000 Ruffian Stakes and the Grade 3, $150,000 Westchester Stakes.
In our continued efforts to bring the sport of Thoroughbred Racing to a new, younger fan base, we will showcase the competition of our great sport as well as the lifestyle, fashion and social aspects of racing.
Last year’s tour was a huge success and we are looking to continue to build upon this as we head into the heart of the racing season for 2014.