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||MD[fl|5 At Aurora One Best Bet — CATESBY — In the Fifth Race. Tuesdays card at Aurora is featured by the Midday Handicap, a five and one-half furlongs dash, which engages a fairly good band of sprinters to make the issue. Prisoner, which has two wins to his credit here, is top weight of the party, with 11.4 pounds as his impost. Florence Mills and Orestes II. come next in order in the handicappers estimation, with 110 pounds as their impost, while Hot Time and Sixty get in with one pound less. The others a re at the lesser weights. Prisoner figures to score again in this number, and Hot Time and Sixty loom as the contenders. With the weight arrangement, there should be a good contest as a result. The remaining races engage cheap fields, platers being to the fore in each instance. The two-year-olds will be asked to traverse the five-eighths distance, it being the first time this year that they will have gone the longer distance at this track. VOLT— BIFFS TIME— BASK JR. A cheap band of platers are entered in the first race, which calls for a dash over the three-quarters distance. VOLT may be the one to account for the major portion of the purse. He will be making his first start since he left the Tijuana track and, taking a line through his starts there, he holds an excellent chance of taking down the purse. VOLT has been training well and we think he can take this field into camp if he races In his best form. DUFFS TIMES last race would indicate that he is rounding into his best form and, if he races back to that effort, should prove a strong contender. BANK JR. may be able to save the short end of the purse. LITTI.F. JACKIE— PAUL BU TAX-LENA 31. Of the fourteen maiden two-year-olds entered in the second race LITTLE JACKIE looks much the best. He only failed being a winner in his last race by a head after setting the pace for the entire distance. He should have little trouble in getting out of the maiden ranks today if he can repeat that last effort. I ALL BUNT AN, in his one race here, showed lie is not far from winning form. He appears the most dangerous contender of the field. LENA M. turned in a good effort in her first start at this track and, on that race, will have to be given a chance to get in the picture. DOLL DANCE may be able to cause the leaders some trouble for she raced well the last time out. BY GOSH— CUP O TEA— ATLA. Another large band is scheduled to race ill the third number, a race over the one mile and a sixteenth distance. The good gelding BY GOSH, from the barn of R. E. Lee, has to be given the call for his last three trips to the races have been winning ones. He is asked to carry four pounds more over his last win, but we doubt if this will stop him from again proving the winner, for the gelding is in rare form at the present. CUP O TEA may be the one to give BY GOSH the most argument for top honors, for she is getting in under a rather light impost today and, with a good win to her credit the last time out, she may prove a real troublemaker. ATLA needs hut to show the same speed as he demonstrated in winning his last race to be the oik- to take down the short end of the purse. PRISONER— BOT TIME— SIXTY. PRISONER looks much the best of the eight starters entered in the Midday Handicap, to be decided as the fourth race. He has been returned a winner in his last two races and, in those races, beat practically the | same horses as he is meeting here. He is picking up weight today, but we doubt if it will keep him from winning, for todays race is over the short five and one-half furlongs distance. HOT TIME may make PRISONER , step to be home the winner for he was the i one that followed the latter home in his last i race. He is a dangerous one and may give ■ the Pollard colorbearer a strong tussle for top honors. SIXTY looks the best of the rest of the field for the show money. When he is in a running wood, he is hard to keep out of the picture. CATESBY— GAB ALDON— NATIONAL BRICK. The best bet on the days card appears in the fifth race in H. II. Chopins CATESBY. I The gelding seems to be placed in a gocd spot for him to be home a winner and, taking a line on his two starts here, he showed he is ready for a winning race. His last race was a good second to Dunbeath and he needs but to show a slight improvement over that effort to prove the easiest winner of the day. His most dangerous opponent may be GABALDON, for the gelding was returned a winner the last time out out, as it was over the five and one-half furlongs distance, we doubt if he can repeat that effort again for todays race calls for a contest over the one mile and seventy yards route. NATIONAL BRICK, on his last good race, has to be figured a contender for some part of the purse. MARY-DALE would prove a contender should the track become other than fast. ABIEU— GUNSIGHT— LOYAL II. The sixth is a test over the mile and seventy yards distance and brings out a cheap field of platers. ADIEU is selected to win here, for she has been racing fairly well of late and is not far from a winning effort. She finished third in her last three starts and only has to go in her best style today to score. GUNSIGHT will be making his firrt start of the year but, taking a line through his workouts, he seems ready for a creditable effort at the first asking. LOYAL H. appears to be as good as another for the short end of the coin. 3IASTER ACE— JACK HORGAN— -ELFKIN. • MASTER ACE gets the preference in the good night offering, a mile dash. The Mc-Conneh racer more than held his own at the Tijuana course last winter and he raced impressively here in his only appearance. He needs to improve but a little over his last time out to beat this field without much difficulty. JACK HORGAN lines up as the threat in this number and, if he is in a running mood, may take plenty of beating. He has raced against and beaten better than ne meets here and he only has to put forth one of his best races today to prove a tough contender all the way. ELFKIN does not come in the same class with the first two mentioned, but appears to hold a slight edge on the rest of the field for the show end of the purse.
