Yay Sistercharlie! First two time winner in the Beverly D!

Bricks and Motor does it! Magic Wand 2nd, Robert Bruce 3rd- Congrats to all!

Great racing from Arlington!

You bet it was!!!

Professional photographer Vanessa Ng of Horse-Races.Net ***THE REAL HRN -- THE ORIGINAL SINCE 1994*** was at Arlington for the Arlington Million.  Photos here:

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That dam Churchill is screwing up racing in Illinois, not applying for gaming license, says racing is only guaranteed thru 2021. Someone else should buy it, but there is to be another casino track built in my county and rumor has it as being 20 min from my house! Hopefully it will and I won’t have to go as far!

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I know it’s heartbreaking for you but they cite the cost of doing so may harm racing in the long run. 

Horse Racing News | Paulick Report

'With A Heavy Heart': Citing Burden Of Purse Contributions, CDI Will Not Open Casino At Arlington - Horse Racing News | Paulick Report

Churchill Downs Incorporated, the owner of Arlington International Racecourse in Arlington Heights, Ill., announced Wednesday that Arlington did not apply to the Illinois Gaming Board for a slot machine and table game license under the recently enacted Illinois Gaming Act. "Notwithstanding our steadfast commitment to the Illinois Thoroughbred racing industry and despite the good faith [...]

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Casinos always hurt racing in the long run.

Sad.  Disgusting.  Effing CDI.  And who's the Duchossois person?  In same bucket as CDI?

TrackNotes: This Is Why We Can't Have Arlington Park Anymore

By Thomas Chambers

Eddie Arcaro. Bill Shoemaker. Laffit Pincay, Jr. Randy Romero, who passed this week. Jimmy Winkfield, Isaac Murphy, Phil Georgeff. Seabiscuit (rained out but came), Citation, Cigar, John Henry "The Steel Drivin' Horse," Secretariat, Gio Ponti, The Pizza Man. Bill Hartack, Johnny Longden, Pat Day, Calvin Borel, Inez Karlsson, George "The Iceman" Woolf. Bricks and Mortar just weeks ago. The Tin Man, Beat Hollow, John Henry. Rene Douglas. Eddie Delahoussaye. Earlie Fires, who carried Chicago racing on top of a horse nearly into his seventies.

You cannot reason with people who have no heart, who don't think about anything but the twisted rationalizations of the pitiful way they treat the game.

They all insulted and marginalized racing at Arlington years ago, hanging on, trading on the Illinois horsemen who truly love the sport. The sight of the wrecking ball haunts me.

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It IS disgusting! I think Duchossois was in the steel industry(had multiple lawsuits against him, most involving OSHA- I had an instructor in college who was on his defense team- not much of an instructor!). I believe it was actually Tvg’s  Mike Joyce’s father that was the incentive to rebuild after the fire. I have never thought much of CDI, laughed when they consulted Keeneland on customer service after the debacle of owners not being treated with common courtesy. Arlington is a beautiful facility, it will be a shame to lose it. They are to build another track with casino this coming year, rumor has it to be 20 minutes from my house. I hope CD has nothing to do with it!!!! Hawthorne in the meantime will not have racing next spring(?) due to adding a casino to their facility. So CDI can do what they want, trainers will just move their horses elsewhere.