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JONES HORSES AT AURORA General Manager Trimble Announces Exposition Park Will be Open for Training. AURORA, 111., April 2.— General manager Clifford Trimble of the Exposition Jockey Club, announced today that he would throw open the track here for training gallops Monday. Despite the recent rains the track is in first-class condition after the various improvements. "The meeting which begins April 21, is expected to be the best held since racing was inaugurated at Aurora," declared Mr. Trimble. "By the end of next week there will be numerous horses on the ground ready for work." Ben Jones, breeder of the numerous Seth horses, is the latest arrival at Aurora. Included in the Jones string, which arrived from Tijuana, are such well known horses as Prince Tii Tii, Sergeant Seth, Go Foin, Dolly Seth, Nose Dive, and the two-year-olds Seths Romance and Fred Whitman. AH told, there are fourteen head in the string. Among the other recent arrivals are E. E. Major, with Stampdale and Take a Chance, from Tampa. With the final shipments from New Orleans and Tijuana after the close of those meetings this week. Exposition Park will lie filled to capacity. In the recent Tijuana shipment were the horses of R. Z. Jenkins. George Neil and E. A. Crecilus. J. J. Russell is shipping Florence Mills and others from New Orleans. The stables of Willis Caywood and J. J. Greely have already arrived. a
