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Illinois Champions Day scouting report

By Joe Kristufek
HorseplayerPro.com

Friday, October 31, 2008

Illinois Champions DaySaturday, Nov. 1, Hawthorne The Low-Down: One of three such festivals presented throughout the year at the Chicagoland racetracks, Illinois Champions Day features a six-pack of $100,000 stakes restricted to Prairie Staters. The millionaire FORT PRADO, who has only raced on dirt five times in his 48-race career, headlines a field of seven for the Lightning Jet Handicap. With the way the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint panned out (won by longshot closer Desert Code), perhaps he c ...

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