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The Washington Park Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the first week of September at Arlington Park Racetrack in Arlington Heights Illinois. A Grade III event open to horses age three and older it is contested on Polytrack synthetic dirt over a distance of a mile and one-eighth (9 furlongs). The race is designed to be a prep for the Breeders’ Cup Classic.Inaugurated at the now defunct Washington Park Race Track in 1958 it was moved to Arlington Park.