Ralph Ross, the last surviving member of the four partners who purchased the Arlington Park from Gulf & Western in the summer of 1983. Ross is refusing to extinguish the last flicker of hope that live thoroughbred racing could ever return to the Arlington grounds. “I completely understand how fans feel because I’m one of them” he said. “When we did that big build back in ’88-’89, we built it like a fortress. By then it was all Dick’s money and he wanted elegance and he wanted permanency. He got both. What’s going on out there right now is terrible.”
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