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AURORA GETS LICENSE ♦ Illinois Department of Agriculture Issues Necessary Papers. 0 i More Horses From New Orleans and Tijuana Arrive at Exposition Park. • AURORA. 111.. April 24. — The Illinois De- i partment of Agriculture yesterday issued a license to the Imposition Park Jockey Club for its twenty-nine-day meeting, which will be held here from May 1 to June 2. The Au- ] rora organization paid the state 3,500, at the rate of ,500 per day. The other Illinois 5 tracks, under the provisions of the Lager racing law. will pay at the rate of ,500 per day. In addition, all tracks must pay the ! state twenty cents on each paid admission ticket. A car of horses from Tijuana, and one from New Orleans, which unloaded at Expo- : sition Park Monday, brought the Aurora horse colony nearly to full str ngth for the twenty-nine-day meeting, which opens on : May 1. In the Tijuana car were the horses of Harry Unna and A. A. Baroni. From New Orleans came D. Womeldorff, T. J. Carroll and M. Beauchamp. Baeoni brought Cross Bow, Rolling Stone, Shasta Monk and Woodgain. Riff Raff and Nannie Francis, from this barn, are being sent to Arlington Heights. Unna unloaded Paula Shay. Minstrel Boy, Kentucky Babe, Mollie Dear, Lost Lady and Golden Banner. Beauchamp brought Huntsman, Porridge and a two-year-old. Womeldorffs band is made up of Huon Pine, Escarra, Dr. Brown. Elbee, Red Heart, Bucky Moor Fuss and Isoard. Carroll came "with Cloud Idolizer, Dancing and Bright Spangle and is bringing Sir Maurice from St. Louis, where he wintered. O. A. Kintz arrived from Kentucky with Jubal Early. There are few larger stables still to report. Among then are Tommie Doyle with the twenty-four head of the Joliet Stable, and J. J. Greeley with a dozen. Stuart Polk and C. B. Irwin are on the way with three and six head, respectively. In all, there will be about six hundred horses on the grounds, enough to fill the seven races daily. James Thompson and Green Honey were announced as official timers for the meeting. Frank Otis, patrol judge, also was added to the roster. Runolathe, one of the fastest of the sprinters on hand for the meeting, handily turned three-eighths in :S6. Jockey J. Leyland, who blossomed out as a rider of the first class at New Orleans last winter, checked in. The condition book for the first seven days is out. It provides for a wide range of horses of all classes. Training gallops are being stretched farther daily, and the track is getting better every morning. It is in better condition now than ever before.
