The Thoroughbred racing community watched in dismay when Churchill Downs sold California's Hollywood Park to a real estate company that jettisoned live racing and then endeavored, at Calder Race Course in Florida, to replace live racing with jai alai. Now at Arlington Park near Chicago, we're seeing Churchill again working to squelch live racing by rebuffing a proposal to turn Arlington into a racino. That is the same racino plan that was put forward at the Illinois Capitol, year after year for more than a decade, by Arlington's own lobbyists as a means to generate funds to boost purses and expand live racing opportunities. But when our state's elected officials this year at last approved the gaming expansion law necessary for Arlington to become a racino, Churchill decided it wouldn't even apply for the racino license.