Arlington to host 2002 Breeders` Cup Arlington Park was last night confirmed as the venue for next year`s Breeders` Cup.There had been doubts about the Chicago track`s ability to cope with the large crowds attracted by the world`s richest meeting but plans have been drawn up to provide temporary seating for the October 26th event.It will be the first new site for the Breeders` Cup since Woodbine in Canada hosted the event in 1996.Breeders` Cup president DG Van Clief Jr said: 'Arlington is an outstanding, world-class racing facility renowned for hosting top-flight international competition and providing its fans with an excellent presentation of thoroughbred racing.'Arlington Park chairman Richard Duchossois was delighted to be staging the Breeders` Cup, saying: 'It is the equivalent of racing`s Super Bowl or World Series.'The World Thoroughbred Championships will bring the world`s best to Chicago and Illinois, while exposing our great city and state to a huge national and international audience.'Arlington is best known for staging the Arlington Million, the world`s first million-dollar race when it was instituted in 1981.Lone Star Park in Texas is also due to join the Breeders` Cup rota in 2005, after renewals at Santa Anita in California (2003) and Churchill Downs in California (2004).
