Venue for August 10 - Arlington

[JolyB]

Entries are now available for the whole card. The quality of the card is clearly at the back end, with much less quality in the early part than I would expect on the track's biggest day of the year. Perhaps that speaks volumes about Illinois racing.

I don't think that any of us will grieve over omitting the first two races, a couple of 5 1/2 furlong all-weather track races for maiden 2 year olds, most of whom have yet to race.

We will be starting with Race 3 and doing the rest of the 12 race card, ending with the Grade 3 Pucker Up. The scheduled post time for race 3 will be 1:21 PM Central time.

I had previously posted that NBC would provide network coverage of the Million. That is probably incorrect, as the time for the Beverly D will be 4:53 Central and the Million will be 6:12 Central, while the NBC coverage will be too early for them. I think you can find live coverage on Fox Sports 2.