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unusual facts about Arlington Park


James E. Day

In 1997 he became only the third trainer to ever win Arlington Park's Mid-America Triple.


Barrington Hills, Illinois

Barrington Hills is home to Hill 'N Dale Farms, belonging to Richard L. Duchossois, owner of the Arlington Park racetrack, Meryl and Richard Cannon's Horizon Farm, formerly owned by Bill McGinley, and Fitzgerald's Bank Note Farm.

Christopher Emigh

The winner of more than 3,000 career races, he has won a riding title at Hawthorne Race Course seven times and at Arlington Park in 2006.

Colm O'Donoghue

His most recent international big race victory was the inaugural running of the American St.Ledger at the Arlington Million meeting at Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, Illinois, in August 2012.

Eusebio Razo, Jr.

Razo spent most of his career at the Chicago area tracks: Arlington Park, Hawthorne Race Course and Sportsman's Park when the latter raced thoroughbreds.

Michael Wrona

Wrona has previously called races at Hollywood Park Racetrack in southern California; Bay Meadows in northern California; Arlington Park in Illinois; the New Orleans Fair Grounds in Louisiana; Turf Paradise Racecourse in Phoenix, Arizona; and Lone Star Park and Retama Park in Texas.

Oriental Park Racetrack

Prominent hotelier John McEntee Bowman, owner of Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York and president of Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corp., which counted the Seville-Biltmore Hotel in Havana as part of its hotel properties, served as president of the Havana-American Jockey Club, as did Harry D. ("Curly") Brown, owner of Arlington Park in Chicago.


see also

Arlington Park Northwest Dallas

Arlington Park is a Northwest Dallas or (Northside of West Dallas) neighborhood located in the Stemmonds Corridor.

Bergen Hill, Jersey City

The Claremont neighborhood lies south of Arlington Park, where before discontinuation of service the Central Railroad of New Jersey maintained station.

To the south Grand Street ascends along Arlington Park, at the top of which is located the St. Patrick's Parish and Buildings at Bramhall Avenue.

Bergen-Lafayette, Jersey City

The neighborhood sometimes called Claremont lies south of Arlington Park, where before discontinuation of service the Central Railroad of New Jersey maintained station.