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AURORA PROSPECTUS « Expect Track to Be In Much Better Condition Than Last Year. ♦ Horse Colony Increasing Daily — Palmo Stock Farm String Is Among Latest Arrivals. • AURORA. 111.. April 17.— It will be over a much Improved track that racing will be inaugurated at Aurora two weeks from today. This is the first of the meetings on the Chicago circuit. The me?ting will run for twenty-nine days, to June 2, and will be followed immediately by one at Arlington Park. Much work has been done on the Aurora course since last season. A new top dressing was put on after the 1927 meeting and the strip lay under a layer of manure through the winter. As a result of this treatment the course has a body which it did not possess last year. All it needs now is dry weather to have it at its best for opening day. Horses have been coming in to the Tri-State Fair Grounds for the last two weeks and more are on the WiO from Kentucky and New Orleans. There are about 450 horses on the grounds now anl there will be a couple of hundred more by the time the curtain goes up two weeks from today. Seven races will be run daily, with ,500 features generously sprinkled into the program. One of the largest stables on the grounds is the Chicago-owned Sanola Stock Farm Stable. These horses are trained by Tom Shannon Prominent in the band are Sun Altos, Pigeon Wing II., Serajevo and Gibbons. B. Berman, another Chicagoan, will be represented at the meeting, chiefly by the good two-year-old Royal Ruby. T. Cheek, the centenarian, who has never missed an Aurora meeting, is on hand with Basha. Alice Lang and Galusha. L. Meripol, who has campaigned here in the last few years as an assistant to Tom Shannon, is branching out for himself this year with five head. J. J. Keith was an arrival with the horses of the Palmo Stock Farm Stable, which included Letter Six. Jack Horgan, Mau-dale, King Bruce. Forebec and Ragtime. Pat Horgan. sports writer, was an ariival from Cincinnati. Mr. Horgan is going to do the announcing over the loud speakers at Exposition Park. R. Leigh, who will be one of the officials at this track, was an arrival. The good mare Miss Rosedale. and the three-year-olds Marietta A. and Fay Hamilton, the property of Al Plack. were unloaded this morning. They had been turned out in Kentucky for the winter.
