Racing
The track runs the following graded stakes:
- Grade II – Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap
- Grade III – Illinois Derby
- Grade III – Hawthorne Derby
- Grade III – Robert F. Carey Memorial Handicap
- Grade III – Sixty Sails Handicap
As well as the following important ungraded races: Bill Hartack Memorial Handicap (Inaugurated in 2008, originally called the National Jockey Club Handicap.)
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—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)