Make sure to set the alarm a little earlier: 12:55pm post times start at Hawthorne on Friday, December 6, and continue for the rest of the meet, Fridays and Saturdays through January 4.

In Episode 98 of Chicago Race of the Day, we jump into the Pat Whitworth Illinois Debutante, the final stakes race of the fall meet. It drew a field of six Illinois-registered juvenile fillies, four of whom are trying a two-turn trip for the first time. So, let’s look at their forms and their pedigrees, and make some sense of this race!

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