2011 ARLINGTON TRACKSIDE OFF-TRACK BETTING HANDICAPPING CONTEST SERIES SPRING 2011

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1 2011 ARLINGTON TRACKSIDE OFF-TRACK BETTING HANDICAPPING CONTEST SERIES SPRING 2011 OFFICIAL RULES These are the Official Rules ( Official Rules ) for the Trackside Off-Track Betting Spring 2011 Handicapping Contest Series ( Contest or Contest Series ). The following information is important and all contest players are responsible for knowledge of the content and for complete compliance with these Official Rules in their latest version. Failure to comply with any of the rules may result in disqualification at the sole discretion of Arlington Park Contest Officials ( Contest Officials ). CONTEST SCHEDULE There will be a series of free, live-money, handicapping contests held during Spring 2011 at all Illinois Trackside Off-Track Betting locations Dates for qualifying rounds are: Saturday, April 2 Saturday, April 9 Saturday, April 23 Saturday April 30 On each of the above dates a separate contest will be held at each of the following Trackside Off-Track Betting locations: Trackside Arlington Park Trackside Chicago Trackside Quad City Downs Trackside Lockport Trackside Hodgkins Trackside South Elgin Trackside Rockford Trackside McHenry Trackside South Beloit Trackside Waukegan/Sundance (Waukegan and Sundance will be treated as one location for contest purposes) Date for the Spring Series Final (for previous winners only): Saturday, May 14 at Arlington Park

2 PLAYER DECLARATION Employees of Arlington Park, its parent and affiliates, contractors, vendors and their respective employees, its advertising agency and members of their immediate families are ineligible to compete. For purposes of this Contest, immediate family members shall be defined as mother, father, spouse, children, step-children and siblings. Failure to disclose as provided herein shall result in disqualification from this Contest and forfeiture of any prizes and cash. A player who has an interest - ownership or otherwise - in a horse entered in any of the races designated as part of the Contest may be ineligible to wager on such race(s). All players with an interest in such an entered horse shall identify themselves to Contest Officials who will determine if the player's interest(s) precludes him/her from wagering. Failure to disclose as provided herein shall result in disqualification from this Contest and forfeiture of any prizes and cash. ELIGIBILITY All players must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age by the day of the Contest in order to play in that Contest. Player must be a Twin Spires Club (TSC) member to participate. TSC membership is free and one may join at the TSC membership service center at Arlington Park and at any Illinois Trackside Off-Track Betting location. Anyone who is not eligible to gamble due to any court order or other restriction, in any jurisdiction, is not eligible to compete in these Contests. Arlington Park reserves the right to deny any person entry into the Contest, for any reason whatsoever. ENTRIES/REGISTRATION There is no entry fee to play in these Contests. Players must establish a $50 bankroll by exchanging $50 for a Contest wagering card (essentially a plastic voucher with a beginning balance of $50) that is to be used for all Contest wagers. The balance on the Contest wagering card always remains the property of the player/owner at all times. Participation is limited to two entries in any one Contest. Should a contestant enter more than twice, he/she will be disqualified from that day's Contest. Participation is limited to one Trackside location each qualifying week. Should a contestant enter at more than one location on a single qualifying week, he/she will be disqualified from that day s Contest. Registration will be available at each of the Contest sites beginning at 11:15 AM (CST) on the day of the Contest. Contestants must register for the Contest no later than post time for the fifth-from-last race on the contest-track card. The official start time of the Contests will be 11:15 AM (CST). SEATING There is no reserved seating for contestants. As this is a live-money handicapping contest using contest wagering cards that are accepted at specific, cash-accepting, self- service, wagering terminals, players are advised to locate those machines early and determine their seating accordingly.

3 CONTEST FORMAT The Contest features live-money wagers on all open Hawthorne Race Course ( Hawthorne ) pools. Should races from Hawthorne be unavailable for Contest purposes, Contest Officials will announce races to be used for that day's Contest. Preference will be given to Churchill Downs, Inc., racetracks. (For the May 14 final round, races from Arlington Park ( Arlington ) will be used. The player may only place wagers on simulcast races from Hawthorne (live races from Arlington on May 14). Should a player place a wager on any other racetrack than specified, for the purposes of scoring he/she will forfeit the amount wagered on that outside track, not receive points for any winnings on such wager, and will still need to fulfill the Contest requirements for wagering on Hawthorne races (Arlington races on May 14). Should the wager on the outside track prevent the player from fulfilling Contest requirements, the player will be disqualified. The player must wager on a minimum of five Hawthorne races (Arlington races on May 14), chosen by the player, on a Contest day, but can choose to wager on more, even all, Hawthorne races that day (Arlington races on May 14). Only the first leg of multiple-race wagers counts toward the five-race minimum. The player must wager a minimum of $50 in Contest wagers on a Contest day. Winnings may be re-invested which means there is no maximum total to be wagered on a Contest day. There are no minimum or maximum wager sizes. Players may wager on multiple pools in a single contest race, however, to do so only counts as one race-wager toward the five-race Contest requirement. Players keep all winnings from Contest wagers and retain ownership of their Contest account balance at all times. Horses grouped in an entry, a field, or coupled will run as one selection. Official track rules and regulations shall apply to Contest wagers. Official track rulings shall apply to horses wagered in the Contest. The Contest ends at the conclusion of the last race from Hawthorne on that Contest day (Arlington races on May 14) A contestant may not add additional funds to their Contest cards. Any player found to have added funds to their card will be disqualified from the Contest. For the purposes of scoring, players that place wagers that result in a payout that requires tax paperwork to be filed (a signer ) will be awarded points for the gross payout before taxes. Players with a signer are urged to start the paperwork process as quickly as possible in order to be prepared to wager on the next Hawthorne race if that is the player's plan. WAGERING PROCEDURES Each contestant will receive a numbered Contest wagering card, assigned to him/her, when they register each Contest day. All Contest wagers must be placed by the player, using his/her Contest wagering card, at cash-accepting, self-service terminals at each Contest site. Wagers cannot be placed using a teller/mutuel clerk. All players are responsible for ensuring that each wager is placed correctly and that their wagers have been accepted by the tote system, regardless of the circumstances. Players are advised to print a receipt for each contest wager.

4 All wagers must be placed personally, and in-person, at the contest site, by the registered player. No person shall, directly or indirectly, act as an intermediary, transmitter or agent in placing wagers for the player, unless prior written authorization is given by Contest Officials. Official program numbers shall be used when placing all wagers. If a horse is scratched after a wager is placed, it is the player's responsibility to change his/her selection prior to the start of the race subject to all other Contest wagering rules. If a wager is not cancelled and the race goes off, the contestant may collect the refund and wager on another race. In this instance, the refunded wager will not count against Contest requirements. In the event the scratch occurs in the final race of the day, and the contestant does not cancel his/her selection, the contestant will not be disqualified for not meeting the race minimum, but instead will be awarded $0 on the final race in place of the refund. POINT TABULATION Players accrue points based on the pari-mutuel payouts of Contest wagers. The player at each location amassing the highest number of points/dollars based on the player's beginning bankroll plus earnings (i.e. the highest final bankroll from all Contest wagers at the end of the Contest) will be the first-place winner. Successive placings are in accordance with official final standings. The player across the entire Illinois Trackside network amassing the highest number of points/dollars based on the player's beginning bankroll plus earnings (i.e. the highest final bankroll from all Contest wagers at the end of the Contest) will be the winner of the weekly bonus prize. Successive placings are in accordance with official final standings. Players receive one point per dollar, and points will be broken into fractions corresponding to cents. For instance, a player with an ending balance of $ will receive points. In the event of a tie, the higher placing will go to the player that has the highest return on his/her investment, i.e., the player who made the lower dollar amount of wagers to achieve the same balance. If a tie still remains, the player with the highest number of winning wagers (defined as the highest number of wagers that pay out, not the number of winning horses) will win. If a tie still exists, the player with the highest winnings on one race will win. If a tie still exists, the winner will be determined by a random draw among the tied players. RESULTS All results are unofficial pending verification that all wagers were made in accordance with Official Rules. Upon such verification, the winners will be announced. Winners will be notified, and may be required to submit paperwork to Arlington Park in order to receive his/her prize(s). Certain prizes cannot be paid until contest paperwork is received by Arlington Park. Each week's contest results will be posted regularly on Arlington's web site,

5 PRIZES All prizes for the four qualifying will be distributed as follows; 1 st place: The official first-place winner each qualifying contest Saturday at each participating Trackside Off-Track Betting location will win $100 (to be awarded in equivalent Twin Spires Club ( TSC ) points) added to the person's TSC card and a berth in the May 14, 2011 series final to be held at Arlington Park. 2 nd place: The official second-place winner at each qualifying contest Saturday at each participating Trackside Off-Track Betting location will win $25 (to be awarded in equivalent Twin Spires Club ( TSC ) points) added to the person's TSC card. 3 rd place: The official third-place winner at each qualifying contest Saturday at each participating Trackside Off-Track Betting location will win $10 (to be awarded in equivalent Twin Spires Club ( TSC ) points) added to the person's TSC card. Weekly Bonus: Each qualifying contest Saturday the player across all participating locations amassing the highest number of points/dollars based on the player's beginning bankroll plus earnings (i.e. the highest final bankroll from all Contest wagers at the end of the Contest) will earn an additional $300 prize. All prizes for the final round to be held at Arlington Park on May 14, 2011, will be distributed as follows: 1st Place: The official first-place winner at the May 14 contest final will win the following prize package, referred to generically as the Las Vegas Trip : 1. An Arlington-paid entry, worth $1,500, into the Coast Casinos Horseplayer World Series ( World Series ) to be held in Las Vegas in February, A $350 travel-voucher check for the winning player to make his/her travel arrangements to Las Vegas for the World Series. 3. Hotel accommodations for the duration of the World Series. 4. Prize money of $175 (to be awarded in equivalent Twin Spires Club ( TSC ) points). 2nd Place: $100 (to be awarded in equivalent Twin Spires Club ( TSC ) points). 3rd Place: $50 (to be awarded in equivalent Twin Spires Club ( TSC ) points). 4th Place: $25 (to be awarded in equivalent Twin Spires Club ( TSC ) points). The aforementioned hotel arrangements and travel reimbursements will be completed by Arlington Park by December 31, 2011, assuming the winners have submitted all required paperwork to Arlington Park. Contestants may only win a maximum of two entries into the May 14 final during the Spring 2011 Contest Series A contestant may participate at only one location during each qualifying contest round but may participate at different locations on separate qualifying weeks.

6 All monetary prizes will be awarded in the form of TSC points, equal to prize money won, and will be credited by Arlington to the winner's TSC account. Affidavits will be required of all winners. Liabilities, including any taxes, for any and all prizes are the sole responsibility of the winner. In the event any potential prize winner is disqualified, or determined not to be eligible, by Contest Officials, those Officials, at their sole discretion, will declare the player with the next highest total bankroll to be the winner of the prize, and each successive player will be moved up accordingly. The trip to Las Vegas is valid during the February, 2012, World Series only. A player's inability to attend the World Series will result in forfeiture of the World Series entry, travel voucher, hotel accommodations, and prize money. If a participant accepts the award of an entry into the World Series in Las Vegas, he/she agrees to fully participate in the proceedings. For a list of winners, visit arlingtonpark.com or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to ATTN: Trackside Spring 2011 OTB Contest - Marketing, Arlington Park, PO Box 7, Arlington Heights, IL ODDS OF WINNING This is a game of skill, and the odds of winning any prize are dependent upon the number of players and the skill of the players. DISQUALIFICATION FOR UNSPORTSMANLIKE BEHAVIOR and/or VIOLATION OF RULES The Contest Officials, in their sole discretion, reserve the right to disqualify any player they believe to be tampering with or attempting to tamper with the betting process and or operation of the Contest or any player they believe to be in violation of the Official Rules or to be acting in an unsportsmanlike manner or with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, coerce or harass any other person or any person they believe to have influenced or attempted to influence the play of other players, whether through potential bonuses or other incentives or otherwise. GENERAL PROVISIONS Arlington Park is not responsible for lost, interrupted, incomplete, inaccurate or incorrect capture of betting information, or for computer, telephone, cable, network, electronic or Internet hardware or software malfunctions, failures, connections, availability, or jumbled transmissions, service provider accessibility or availability, or unauthorized human intervention. Players are responsible for the payment of all local, state and/or federal taxes on prizes won in the Contest. Players who are not United States citizens or Permanent Resident Aliens may be subject to federal tax withholding by Arlington Park. All trademarks used in connection with this Contest and the promotion thereof are the property or their respective trademark owners and are used for identification purposes only. By participating, each player agrees to be bound by the terms of these Official Rules. By participating, each player agrees to be interviewed for follow-up stories. By participating, each player agrees to the use of the player's name, photograph, voice and likeness for the purpose of advertising and promotion in connection with Arlington Park, its partners and affiliates without further compensation, except where prohibited.

7 By participating, each player agrees to release Arlington Park and their partners and affiliates, and the directors, employees and agents of each, from any liability, loss or damage incurred by the use, misuse or acceptance of the prize. The validity, interpretation and performance of this Agreement shall be controlled and construed under the internal laws of the State of Illinois. No provision of this Agreement shall be construed against or interpreted to the disadvantage of any party by any court or other governmental or judicial authority or mediator or arbitrator by reason of any party having or being deemed to have structured or dictated such provision. Venue shall be a court of competent jurisdiction in Illinois.

8 All decisions as to the Official Rules and interpretations thereof are exclusively within the sole discretion of Contest Officials and may be changed from time-to-time without notice. Arlington Park reserves the right to cancel or modify the Contest and/or the Official Rules without notice. In the event of inconsistency between these Official Rules and any other document provided in connection with the Contest, the terms of these Official Rules shall be controlling. PRIVACY POLICY Information submitted on the Registration Form and any information provided in connection with the Contest will be retained by Arlington Park and may be used for marketing, research or other commercial and noncommercial purposes. In addition, Arlington Park and its partners and affiliates may send the players promotions or announcements unless the player specifically requests that Arlington Park not do so in the manner provided in the Registration Form. Personal information pertaining to players and the contest will be held by Arlington Park in accordance with CDI corporate policies.