With a cloud of uncertainty hovering overhead, the Illinois Racing Board met Friday (April 24) and agreed to Hawthorne Race Course president Tim Carey’s petition to establish a working equalization group to address the impact on the 2020 calendar because of Governor J.B. Pritzer’s decision to extend the coronavirus pandemic stay-at-home order through May 30. “This whole situation has created an atmosphere where there are a lot of unknowns,” said the board’s newly-appointed chairman Daniel Beiser. “We don’t know what it’s going to be like for the horsemen, for the track owners.