ARLINGTON MILLION

The 'Arlington Million' is a Grade 1 flat horse race in the United States for thoroughbred horses aged three years and upward. It is raced over a distance of 1¼ miles (approximately 2,000 metres) on the turf at Arlington Park, Arlington Heights, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) in August. The race was introduced in 1981 by Joe Joyce, the President of Arlington at the time. The track famously ran the Arlington Million in 1985 under the shadow of a burnt out stand, the victim of a fire 25 days earlier. The horse John Henry succeeded in winning the race twice.
On August 30, 1981, Willie Shoemaker became the first jockey to win a $1 million race when John Henry took the inaugural Arlington Million by a nose over The Bart.
In 2007, Jambalaya became the first Canadian bred horse to win the Arlington Million and his trainer, Catherine Day Phillips the first female trainer to ever win the race.

Contents

Records

Past Winners

Notes

Records

'Time record:'

★ 1:58.69 - Awad (1995)
'Most wins:'

★ 2 - John Henry (1981, 1984)
'Most wins by an owner:'

★ 2 - Dotsam Stable (1981, 1984), Juddmonte Farms (2000, 2002)
'Most wins by a jockey:'

★ 2 - Laffit Pincay, Jr. (1982, 1991), Cash Asmussen (1988, 1992), Jose Santos (1990, 1993), Gary L. Stevens (1990, 1997), Jerry D. Bailey (2000, 2002)
'Most wins by a trainer:'

★ 3 - Ron McAnally (1981, 1984, 1991), Charlie Whittingham (1982, 1986, 1990)

Past Winners

'Year'	'Winner'	'Age'	'Jockey'	'Trainer'	'Owner'	'Time'
1981	John Henry	6	Willie Shoemaker	Ron McAnally	Dotsam Stable	2:07.60
1982	Perrault	5	Laffit Pincay, Jr.	Charlie Whittingham	Serge Fradkoff & Baron Thierry van Zuylen	1:58.80
1983	Tolomeo	3	Pat Eddery	Luca Cumani	Carlo d'Alessio	2:04.40
1984	John Henry	9	Chris McCarron	Ron McAnally	Dotsam Stable	2:01.40
1985	Teleprompter	5	Tony Ives	Bill Watts	18th Earl of Derby	2:03.40
1986	Estrapade	6	Fernando Toro	Charlie Whittingham	Allen E. Paulson	2:00.80
1987	Manila	4	Angel Cordero Jr.	LeRoy Jolley	Bradley M. Shannon	2:02.40
1988	Mill Native	4	Cash Asmussen	André Fabre	C. N. Ray	2:00.00
1989	Steinlen	6	José Santos	D. Wayne Lukas	Wildenstein Stable	2:03.60
1990	Golden Pheasant	4	Gary Stevens	Charlie Whittingham	Summa Stable & Wayne Gretzky	1:59.60
1991	Tight Spot	4	Laffit Pincay, Jr.	Ron McAnally	Anderson, Winchell & Carradini	1:59.55
1992	Dear Doctor	5	Cash Asmussen	John Hammond	Henri Chalhoub	1:59.84
1993	Star of Cozzene	5	José Santos	Mark Hennig	Team Valor Stable	2:07.50
1994	Paradise Creek	5	Pat Day	William I. Mott	Masayuki Nishiyama	1:59.78
1995	Awad	5	Eddie Maple	David Donk	Ryehill Farm	1:58.69
1996	Mecke	4	Robbie Davis	Emanuel Tortora	James Lewis Jr.	2:00.49
1997	Marlin	4	Gary Stevens	D. Wayne Lukas	Michael Tabor	2:02.54
1998	''no race 1998-99''
2000	Chester House	5	Jerry Bailey	Robert J. Frankel	Juddmonte Farms	2:01.37
2001	Silvano	5	Andreas Suborics	Andreas Wöhler	Stiftung Gestüt Fährhof	2:02.64
2002	Beat Hollow	5	Jerry Bailey	Robert J. Frankel	Juddmonte Farms	2:02.94
2003	Sulamani ★	4	David R. Flores	Saeed bin Suroor	Godolphin	2:02.29
2004	Kicken Kris ★ ★	4	Kent Desormeaux	Michael R. Matz	Bushwood Stable	2:00.08
2005	Powerscourt	5	Kieren Fallon	Aidan O'Brien	Sue Magnier	2:03.38
2006	The Tin Man	8	Victor Espinoza	Richard Mandella	Ralph and Aury Todd	2:01.35
2007	Jambalaya	5	Robby Albarado	Catherine Day Phillips	Todd & Catherine Day Phillips	2:04.76

★ Storming Home finished first in 2003 but was demoted to fourth place following a Stewards' Inquiry.

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★ Powerscourt finished first in 2004 but was demoted to fourth place following a Stewards' Inquiry.

Notes

★ No races were held at Arlington International Racecourse in 1998 or 1999, as the Illinois horse racing authorities did not authorise dates for the track. The 1988 race was held at Woodbine Racetrack, Ontario, Canada.

★ Starting in 1991, timing was arranged to hundredths.

★ From 1983 until 1986, the race was known as the Budweiser Million.

★ In 2004, Pat Gibson won a million pounds on the UK version of ''Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'' by correctly answering the Million was not a Triple Crown race in the United States.

★ Starting in 2007, the winner of this race will qualify for the Breeders Cup World Thoroughbred Championships in the Turf Division.