No Budge in Arlington Park Contract Stalemate

Purse contract negotiations between the Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (ITHA) and Arlington Park remain deadlocked three weeks after missing a state-mandated deadline to have one in place for the 2020 meet. IRB chairman Jeffrey Brincat did underscore on Tuesday that the horsemen and Arlington are both now considered to be in violation of a portion of the Illinois Gaming Act that passed last June, with “both potentially subject to remedies…including monetary fines for both parties.”