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SPEEDING UP AT AURORA Everything Nearly Ready for Big Opening Next Thursday â List of Riders â Trainers Busy. AURORA, III.. May 29.â Preparations for the spring meeting to open here next Thursday are going along in a manner that leaves no room for doubt that everything will be in complete readiness for opening day. Several more stables got In today, but the greater number of horses that will race here are not expected until Monday and Tuesday. With the close of Churchill Downs and Maple Heights tomorrow, large consignments of horses are expected to entrain from, those | points and reach here early next week. The , management feels confident that there will I be approximately 800 horses on hand for tne ! meeting and as nearly all have reen in action in Kentucky, Ohio and elsewhere they are in prime condition for racing. Approximately twenty-four jockeys have filed applications to ride at Exposition Park and there are many capable riders among them. Here they are: la Montcomery R. Zucchini K. Taplin J. Eaton K. Chiavetta B. Collina J. Silvia K. II.. . ir :.. :..l B. Fa tor J. Berg W. Smith A. Pickens W. Hoc. in. .u ski J. I. Mooney F. I-ee G. Williama âĒJ. levlc K. Noe C. Raines A. Vuillemott J. Johnson I,. Inff II Klston W. Taylor Herman Conkling, the well-known racing official, who will be one of the stewards here, has already arrived on the ground. Starter Harry Morrissey will reach here Sunday, Laving Toronto Immediately after the close of Woodbine Saturday. Trainers were busy today galloping their horses and the following were somo of the workouts noted during the early morning hours: :t I Mile Mnry Connor*. 39; Savoy. 37; Trohity, 37. 1 - Mile-Poland. 50; Araphoe, 00; Good Morning I r.l; May Buddy, 01!. 5 8 Mile A. J. Buja, 1:09; bad/ Inez, 1:06; Fort Churchill. 1:07. 3 4 Mile 1-u Orb. 1:17; Porto De Oro, 1:20. 1 Mile -Bobton, 1:47; Ascot, 1:19; Insurance, 1:47.
