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J . ; i . [ j AURORA TRACK IMPROVES 300 Horses Already Stabled at Fox Valley Course and More Expected — New Barn Ready. AURORA. 111.. April 14.— There was quite an improvement in track conditions this morning, although the track is far from being what it should be. The dirt on the inside rail has washed down into the ditch, leaving holes all along the rail and the surface is all clods which cut a horse all to pieces if not heavily bandaged. There are about COO horses here and with the few that are scheduled to come about 500 horses are expected to be stabled here within the next week. The new sixty-stall barn is completed and ready for occupancy. Quite a number of the horsemen are reporting their charges to be on the sick list, the worst one among them being the good filly Shasta Gold owned by B. Creech. B. Herman of Chicago, who races a band of horses around the Chicago tracks, was a visitor. Mr. Berman was unfortunate in losing the good horses The Wire and Outlawed through shipping fever at New Orleans last winter. Tony Barrett of Chicago was a visitor this morning watching horses in their work. The paddock gate has been moved to the lower end of the paddock, giving more space at the end of the grandstand.
