SECRETARIAT

Arlington Park, seventh race. Grade 1. Purse: $400,000. Mile-and-

a-quarter, turf, 3-year-olds. Post: 4:05 p.m.

LOWDOWN: Black Bear Island, trained by Ireland’s top horseman, Aidan O’Brien, is the only Euro-invader in this race. He’s been facing Group 1 foes in England and France, is a Group 2 winner in Europe going a distance, gets first-time Lasix and drops weight.

TV: HRTV, OTB Ch. 71

BEVERLY D.

Arlington Park, eighth race. Grade 1. Purse: $750,000. Mile-and-three-sixteenths, turf, fillies and mares. Post: 4:52 p.m.

LOWDOWN: Pure Clan has been a top-class performer and is 5-for-8 on turf including a Grade 1 victory, and is coming off a 2 1/2-length romp in the Grade 3 Modesty over this course at this distance.

TV: ESPN, OTB Ch. 71

ARLINGTON MILLION

Arlington Park, ninth race. Grade 1. Purse: $1,000,000. Mile-and-a-quarter, turf, 3-year-olds and up. Post: 5:42 p.m.

LOWDOWN: Einstein, widely considered the best older horse in the nation, is a Grade 1 winner on turf and at this distance. He appears to be the only runner in this field with enough speed to stay close in the early going to the runaway front-runner, Presious Passion, and can get first jump on the closers.

TV: ESPN, OTB Ch. 71

LAST WEEK: Rutherienne (9-2) was third in the Diana at Saratoga paying $3 to show. Charitable Man (6-5) was third in the Jim Dandy at Saratoga paying $2.30 to show. Munnings (5-1) was third in the Haskell at Monmouth paying $3.20 to show.