Twenty years ago this month, as Teleprompter completed his wire-to-wire upset in "The Miracle Million" at Arlington Park, aconstruction cherry picker hovering near the finish line dipped backdown to return its four prestigious occupants to temporary racetrackfirma.
Dick Duchossois turned to his three partners in the firestormedArlington ownership group of 1985 -- Joe Joyce, Sheldon Robbins andRalph Ross -- and said, "Gentlemen, this race should go on foreveras our calling card to the world."
Though Duchossois long ago bought out those partners and sincehas merged with Churchill Downs Inc., that global calling card onceagain will go on this weekend as the …
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