Arlington Park News

Arlington Park announced today that it will begin construction immediately to replace its conventional dirt track with a new state-of-the-art, synthetic racing surface to enhance athlete safety in advance of the 2007 race meet, which begins on Friday, May 4, 2007.

The 95-day, 2006 Arlington Park 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.

Arlington Park has named Roy A. Arnold president of the historic Chicago-area racetrack and its network of Trackside off-track betting facilities.

Churchill Downs reports Clifford C. Goodrich will leave his position as president of Arlington Park.

News Brief: The Arlington Park race meet, which ran May 13 through Sept. 18, concluded with a 0.8 percent increase in total handle and a 1.6 percent decrease in total attendance compared with last year's meet.

News Brief: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has charged Churchill Downs Inc., and its subsidiary Arlington Park Racecourse LLC, with violating the Fair Housing Act.

The 96-day, 2004 Arlington Park race meet concluded with a 6-percent increase in average daily attendance and a 2.6-percent rise in overall wagering compared to the corresponding daily averages of the 2003 meet of 104 days.

Arlington Park reports that overnight purses will be slightly increased, by an average of between 3 and 5 percent, for the 21 racing days remaining during the track's 2004 race meet.