arlingtons new finish line
 

debuts friday, and is intended to give horses more time to get better position into the first turn in mile and sixteenth events

has Arlington ever carded 1 1/16 races with the current track configuration?

Yes they have although I can't remember any in the last 10 years or so.

Remember when they ran the BC Juvie and Juvie fillies (Li'l Dudes and Li'l Babes as a surfer friend of mine calls them) at Arlington at 9f because they weren't set up for 1 1/16 races? Vindication won that one, never heard from again. Juvie races should be one-turn, IMHO.

They used to run "about" 1 1/16 miles. They also didn't record internal fractions if I remember correctly.

This was one of Dave Felmans pet peeves and he was pushing for a 2nd finish line back in the 70's.

By the way Arlington with its opening day and Mother's Day crowds has to be destroying previous years attendence records. And Levy charging 5 bucks for a sliver of pizza and 5.25 for a beer a long with it have to be making a killing. One oddity I noticed was a can of pop at 2 bucks and a bottle of water at 3 bucks.

The idiots that passed up drinking fountains to wait in line for their waters are probably the ones complaining about 3 bucks for a gallon of gas and have no clue they're paying 12 bucks per gallon of water.