If the Delaware Handicap could be run at Saratoga (it actually was run there from 1982 through 1985), then why can't the Arlington Million be run at Churchill Downs? Although an Arlington Million at Churchill would either need to be shortened to 1 1/8 miles or lengthened to 1 3/8 miles.
Then again, if Hawthorne rebuilds their pre-1987 shorter far turn on the turf course (while concomitantly keeping their existing far turn - the resulting configuration would pretty much be the same as that found at Los Alamitos), the Arlington Million can be kept both at its 1 1/4-mile distance, and in Chicago.
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