Arlington Park (formerly known as Arlington International Racecourse) is a former horse race track in the Chicago suburbs of Arlington Heights, Illinois. Once called the Arlington Park Jockey Club, it was located adjacent to the Illinois Route 53 expressway and serviced by the Chicago and North Western Railway.

2023年11月3日 · This iconic track has been a fixture of Midwest horse racing for generations, hosting prestigious races like The Arlington Million and drawing crowds nearing 60,000 in its heyday. But a steep decline in attendance and handle, along with massive losses in 2020 due to COVID-19, led to the decision to shutter its doors.

2023年5月31日 · Demolition began at the former Arlington Park race track, after the city granted the Chicago Bears' indoor permit.

2021年8月18日 · Track president Joe Joyce was credited with starting the Arlington Million, the first thoroughbred race in the world to carry a seven-digit purse. Bill Shoemaker rode John Henry to a photo-finish victory over 40-1 long shot The Bart, a result that remains in dispute to this day for some losing bettors.

2023年10月7日 · SkyCam 9 flew over the 326-acre property on Friday which revealed the significant progress of the demotion of the race course that began in June, when the NFL team got permits to tear down the ...

2023年5月27日 · A spectacular daylong fire on July 31, 1985, destroyed the historic Arlington Park Race Track grandstand and clubhouse. The track still ran the Arlington Million less than a month later.

As one of Illinois' top race tracks, Arlington Park 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.

Arlington Park Racetrack began Thoroughbred horse racing on October 13, 1927, when more than 20,000 fans braved the cold weather to celebrate the event in high style. Jockey Joe Bollero guided...

Racing from May to September, the Arlington Park Race Track is home to some of America’s finest turf races (the Beverly D., Secretariat, American Derby), as well as two of the first real tests for young horses in the Arlington-Washington Futurity and Arlington-Washington Lassie.

Between May and September, Arlington Park stages a total of 89 days of racing, including 13 Graded Stakes races. Course Characteristics. The main track at Arlington Park is left-handed, Polytrack oval, a mile and a furlong in circumference with a one and a half furlong home straight.