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AURORA TRACK READY] ♦ Preparations Practically Com- , pleted for Opening on Tuesday. ♦ Every Stall Filled and Majority of Horses in Condition to Face the Barrier. AURORA, III.. April 28.— The brisk winds and bright sunshine of the past week have wrought a wonderful change in the condition of the Exposition Park track and with the prospect of more sunshine and warmer weather Auroras beautiful track here in the Fox River Valley will present a more inviting appearanc? than ever before when the gates are thrown open Tuesday for the inauguration of the Illlinols racing season of 1328. General manager Clifford Trimble and his staff have practically completed preparations for the opening and Sunday visitors will find everything npic and span with only a few minor details to be completed. Every stall is filled and the majority of the horses are in condition to race, assuring well matched fields right from the start of the meeting. Fifty-five to sixty jockeys will accept mounts here. Prominent among them are C. E. Allen, R. Jones, P. Rennie, G. Wool if. S. Steele. Allen is under contract to C. L. Foster. R. Jones will ride for Harry Unna. Woolff, an apprentice, is with Whitey White-hill, and Pendergrass with Clay McConnell. Noel came from Kentucky to rider for C. Van Dusen. Steele will ride the horses of the Sanola Stock Farm. This is the same Steele for which G. Frank Croissant paid something like 3,000 three years ago. PROMISING RIDERS. Quite a few new riders will be introduced here. T. May is one of the most promising in this band. He is another one of those Idaho youngsters. Idaho piodueed Sanoe, the Fators. Goldie Johnson, George Ellis and Ivan Parke among a couple oi dozen other good jockeys. No one puts May in their class yet. but the boy is said to have broken a pony for his own use at tne age of eight years and did a lot of rodeo riding around his home town of Blackford. Oil ,-ss all signs fail this boy will fellow in the footsteps of the other stars from Idaho. Louie M ripol has his contract. Following are the first of the riders to register here : F. Sperry, H. Trotsek, C. Lan-dolt, W. Johnson, R. Finnerty, P. Charlitz. R. Collins, S. Hicks, R. Crees, M. Meyer, F. Marengo. C E. Owen. J. Benda, W. W. Crees. E. Legere. R. Warner, J. Parmalee, L. Miller, W. Imig, M. Mitchell, O. Laidley, J. Gianelloni, J. Guerra. J. Ford, W. Fisher, E. Warden, R. De Prema, J. Lcyland, F. Smith T. Romano, J. M. Dale, H. West, A. Bush, D Jones. R. Mozer, I . Chamberlain, W. Crowell, J. Dillea. H. Jones and W. Noel. It will be noted that there are three Jones boys, not related. The Creeses are brothers. Stuart Polk wired that he is as far along on the way from Tijuana as Yuma, Ariz. Earl Linnell is believed to be on the same train. Linnell is bringing Crystal Pennant, the Coffroth Handicap winner, and the two horses which Harry Unna bought from Baron Long a couple of day ago for 0,000. These two are Wire G. Bowman and Judge Schilling. Jockey P. Hebert. reinstated a couplj of j days ago by the Fair Grounds stewards, left for Louisville to ride for the Bloomfield Stable of B. B. Williams. Basil Smith, assistant to starter Marshall Cassidy, is spending a few days at Aurora before going to the Woodbine to school horses for the opening there on May 19.
