By Thomas Chambers
I paid my annual visit to Arlington Park on Saturday for the 35th Arlington Million, but for those of you who gang TrackNotes and consistency in the same sentence, I did not Metra up there. Thank the magic of television, which turned out to be a real trip itself.
I’d finished setting up the new Forbidden Fruit BozoPuter which, I’ll tell you, becomes real murder when you can’t remember or find your WiFi password. I should at least get some free DeVry credit.
Ready for HORSE racing, NBCSportsNet pops on with B-level NASCAR road racing from Pocono. Rant as I did, we have to swallow the fact the ponies don’t have the clout for a no-preemption clause if things run late somewhere else.
And don’t forget, Churchill Downs Inc. didn’t care and Arlington had no pull, so The Million had been relegated to local WGN-Channel 9 in some sort of time-buy deal for a number of years previous to the 2017 jump to NBC. We suffered through Dan Roan, Rich King and AP shill Howard Sudberry for what can be called Chicago’s Very Own Dark Ages. “For those of you new to the game, this is a horse,” we often heard.
Posted on August 15, 2017