Daily Herald:'On life support': How Illinois' horse racing industry is trying to survive after Arlington's closure
By Christopher Placek
The entry of Two Phil's into Saturday's Kentucky Derby may have been a bright spot in an otherwise bleak landscape for the Illinois horse racing industry.
The 3-year-old colt trained for the premier race at Hawthorne Race Course in Southwest suburban Stickney, where North Barrington's Larry Rivelli relocated his stables after Arlington Park met its finish line in 2021. Two Phil's, though, was bred in Kentucky, and the horse has run all of its races outside Illinois…