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Anatomy of a race course

By Claire Novak
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

STICKNEY, IL -- It's not as if the idea came to Tim Carey like an inspiration. Night racing had been around for decades, and the harness racers did it all the time. Evening cards had come to Chicago before -- several times at Arlington Park and regularly at Balmoral -- but it had been a while, and the urge was strong to try something, anything, to boost attendance and increase handle. Churchill Downs raced under lights at the end of their 2009 spring racing season, packing 33,481 fans onto the ...

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