Sunday Silence, Easy Goer to Meet in $1-Million Invitational Aug. 4

Sunday Silence and Easy Goer, last year’s top two U.S. thoroughbreds, will renew the hottest rivalry in horse racing at a $1-million invitational race Aug. 4.

Arlington International Racecourse said Tuesday that it will host the 1 1/4-mile race on dirt that will reunite the two horses who thrilled the fans in four exciting races last year which ended 3-1 in favor of Sunday Silence.

Sunday Silence won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, and, in their last meeting, the Breeders’ Cup Classic in November. Easy Goer denied the black colt the honor of the Triple Crown by capturing the Belmont Stakes by eight lengths.

The invitational is to be held at the track in Chicago’s northern suburbs less than a month before the Arlington Million, a race on grass that features an international field. Sunday Silence trainer Charlie Whittingham has nominated his horse for that 1 1/4-mile event as well.