As the season wraps up for the year at Arlington, all the talk is about the 2008 schedule. The Chicago track will race a 97-day schedule from May 2 through September 21. Three Grade 1 races are run: the Arlington Million, the Beverly D. Stakes and the Secretariat Stakes. The two Grade 2 races are the American Derby and the Washington Park Handicap.

The Park runs 10 Grade 3 races which include:

• Arlington Classic Stakes
• Arlington Handicap
• Arlington Matron Handicap
• Arlington-Washington Breeders’ Cup Futurity
• Arlington-Washington Breeders’ Cup Lassie Stakes
• Chicago Breeders’ Cup Handicap
• Hanshin Cup Handicap
• Modesty Handicap
• Pucker Up Stakes
• Stars and Stripes Breeders’ Cup Turf Handicap

Those races are run on either the one and one-eighth mile synthetic oval, or the one mile turf oval. The Park has seating for 50,000 and stabling for over 2,000 horses.