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Review Of Arlington Park RaceTrack

By: Richard Bleuze

Review Of Arlington Park RaceTrack

Arlington Park RaceTrack opened to an enthusiastic crowd of about 20,000 on October 13, 1927.

Arlington Park RaceTrack is a thoroughbred racing facility in Arlington Heights, Illinois featuring two tracks. During the 2011 meet, Arlington Park RaceTrack has been granted 86 days of live racing in 2011 from Friday, May 6 through Sunday, September 25.

Arlington Park RaceTrack is Illinois’ top race track. Arlington Park RaceTrack regularly hosts high-profile stakes races, among them are the Arlington Million, the Beverly D. Stakes, the Secretariat Stakes, Stars & Stripes Breeders’ Cup and the Washington Park Handicap.

In the past decade, Arlington Park RaceTrack took on an active international role by exchanging races with leading tracks in England and Japan, participating in global conferences on international racing, and taking on an advisory role in efforts to develop a worldwide thoroughbred racing series. And in June 1989, Arlington changed its name to Arlington International Racecourse then changed it back to Arlington Park RaceTrack in 2000. In various capacities, Arlington International Racecourse has participated in several international projects including the Emirates World Series Racing Championship, the Dubai World Cup and the Singapore International Cup.

Below are a few facts about Arlington Park RaceTrack that might be of interest to the horse bettor.

* Main Track - One mile and one eighth oval with chutes for 6½, 7/8, 7½, 1 mile
* Turf Course - One Mile Oval
* Stable Accommodations - 2,140 Stalls, 35 Barns
* In 1933, the track installed the first all-electric totalisator.
* In 1936, the track installed Chicago's first photo-finish camera, called the Eye in the Sky.
* In 1940, the track installed the first electric starting gate in Chicago racing.
* In 1967, Arlington Park RaceTrack installed the largest closed-circuit color TV in all of sports.
* In 1981, Arlington hosted the first ever million dollar race for thoroughbreds - the Arlington Million.
* In 2000, Arlington merged with Churchill Downs Inc.

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Major racetracks

Major horse racetracks in the U.S. were opened

at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1853;
at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1863;
at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland in 1870;
at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey, opened in 1870;
at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, opened in 1875;
at Aqueduct Racetrack in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens in 1894;
at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1904;
at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, just outside New York City on Long Island, in 1905;
at Fairmount Park Racetrack in the St. Louis suburb of Collinsville, Illinois in 1925;
at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida, near Miami in 1925;
at Arlington Park in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois in 1927;
at Santa Anita Park in the San Gabriel Valley community of Arcadia, California, in the Los Angeles area, in 1934;
at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky in 1936;
at Del Mar Racetrack in the San Diego suburb of Del Mar, California in 1937;
at Hollywood Park Racetrack in another Los Angeles suburb, Inglewood, California, in 1938.

Thoroughbred horse racing in the United States has its own Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Hall of Fame honors remarkable horses, jockeys, owners and trainers.