2006 Arlington Meet Concludes; Calabrese, Catalano and Emigh Finish as Leading Owner, Trainer, Jockey.ARLINGTON HEIGHTS Arlington Heights, village (1990 pop. 75,460), Cook county, NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; founded 1836, inc. 1887. Its manufactures include machinery, drugs and medical equipment, and metal fabrication. Arlington Park racetrack is there. , Ill. -- The 95-day, 2006 Arlington Park Arlington Park is a horse race track in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois. Horse racing in the Chicago region has been a popular sport since the early days of the city in the 1830s, and at one time Chicago had more horse racing tracks (six) than any other major race meet - run from Friday, May 5 through Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2006 - concluded with decreases in handle and attendance compared to the corresponding totals from the track's 94-day meet in 2005. Total handle from all sources for the 95-day meet was $371,109,123, an 8.5-percent decrease from last year's total of $405,443,841 wagered over 94 days in 2005. In 2006, the average daily total handle of $3,906,412 fell short of last year's average of $4,313,232 by $406,820 per day, a decrease of 9.4-percent. On track, a total of $46,215,951 was wagered at Arlington Park during the 95-day meet, $7,853,973 and 14.5 percent less than the 94-day total of $54,069,924 during 2005. Average daily wagering decreased by 15.4 percent from $575,211 in 2005 to $486,484 this year, a daily decrease of $88,727. The 95-day 2006 Arlington Park race meet concluded with a total attendance of 655,788. In 2005, overall attendance was 715,023 for the 94-day meet. Average daily attendance in 2006 was 6,903 compared with 7,607 in 2005. Although there was an additional race day in 2006, the total number of races run during the meet was 861, 16 less than the 877 run in 2005. Total average daily purses paid during the 2005 meet amounted to $272,224, a 5.6-percent increase of $14,499 compared to daily average purses of $257,725 in 2005. The 2006 average number of starters per race of 7.44 is down from the 2005 meet average of 7.98 starters per race. On the track, Ralph & Aury Todd's The Tin Man Tin Man may refer to: In television:
The Million is one of three Grade I races that comprise the International Festival of Racing, held this year on Aug. 12. This year's Festival attracted a crowd of 29,979. In the other Festival headliners, Martin S. Schwartz's Gorella launched a courageous rally in the center of the course to win the $750,000 Beverly D. Stakes The Beverly D. Stakes is a Grade 1 flat horse race in the United States for thoroughbred fillies and mares aged three-years-old and upward. The Beverly D. Stakes is the fillies' counterpart of the Arlington Million and is raced on the same day and on the same turf course at by 1 3/4 lengths to give Schwartz and trainer Patrick Biancone their second straight victory in the mile and three-sixteenths turf race. French-born apprentice jockey Julien Leparoux rode the French-bred distaffer in the sister race to the Arlington Million. Lael Stables' Showing Up, ridden by Cornelio Velasquez, took the lead right out of the starting gate and held off a late run from Ivan Denisovich to capture the Grade I $400,000 Secretariat Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths. Other notable performances this season included a dead-heat for the win between Frank Fletcher Racing Operations Inc.'s Officer Rocket and Sayat Stables' Got the Last Laugh in the Grade III $200,000 Arlington-Washington Breeders' Cup Futurity The Arlington-Washington Futurity Stakes is a Grade III flat horse race for Thoroughbred two-year-olds. It is raced over a distance of 8 furlongs, or one mile, on the dirt at Arlington Park, Chicago, Illinois every fall and currently offers a purse of $150,000. ; a track-record time of 1:53.53 for a mile and three-sixteenths by Jay Em Ess Stable's Suave suave adj. suav·er, suav·est Smoothly agreeable and courteous. [French, agreeable, from Old French, from Latin su in the Grade II $300,000 Washington Park Handicap The Washington Park Handicap is a race for Thoroughbred horses. The race is open to horses age three and up who are willing to race the one and three-sixteenths mile distance. The race is held each year at Arlington Park, the successor of Washington Park. ; Keith McKinney's Gold Storm winning the $150,000 Arlington Breeders' Cup Sprint The Breeders' Cup Sprint is an American Weight for Age Grade I Thoroughbred horse race for three year olds & up. Run on dirt over a distance of 6 Furlongs (3/4 mile), the race has been held annually since 1984 at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the for the second time while setting a stakes-record of 1:08.39 for the six furlongs; and Lothenbach Stable Inc.'s Vacare keeping her record perfect when she took the Grade III $200,000 Pucker puck·er v. puck·ered, puck·er·ing, puck·ers v.tr. To gather into small wrinkles or folds: puckered my lips; puckered the curtains. v.intr. Up Stakes. On the track, owner Frank C. Calabrese earned his seventh consecutive title as the meet's leading owner with 49 wins, more than three times the total of runner-up 2 Blondes Inc., who posted 14 victories. Trainer Wayne Catalano earned his second straight training title and his fifth in the last seven years with 49 wins. Frank Kirby second with 31 victories. Chris Emigh picked up his first Arlington jockey championship with 110 victories. Francisco Torres, competing at Arlington on a full-time basis for the first time since 1994, was second in the standings with 98 wins. Arlington Park - the Chicago area's premier Thoroughbred racetrack located in Arlington Heights, Ill. - ran its 95-day meet in 2006 from Friday, May 5 through Tuesday, Sept. 12. Arlington Park, whose parent company is Churchill Downs Incorporated Churchill Downs Incorporated (NASDAQ: CHDN) is the parent company of Churchill Downs. The company owns several other thoroughbred and standardbred racetracks. History (Nasdaq: CHDN), also operates eight off-track, simulcast-wagering facilities - Trackside track·side n. The area near a track, especially a racetrack. Arlington Park (Arlington Heights), Trackside Quad City Downs (East Moline), Trackside Chicago, Trackside McHenry, Trackside Rockford, Trackside South Beloit, Trackside Waukegan and Lucky's featuring Trackside OTB OTB abbr. off-track betting OTB n abbr (US) (= off-track betting) → apuestas hechas fuera del hipódromo OTB n abbr (US) (= off-track betting in South Elgin. Information on Arlington Park can be found online at www.arlingtonpark.com. |
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