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At Aurora One Best Bet — BONNIE OMAR — In the Sixth Race. The Once Around Purse features the Friday card offered by the Exposition Jockey Club at Aurcra. The race calls for a contest over the one mile distance, under allowance conditions. Honi Soit is our selection for the win end of the purse, with Master Ace and Vowed Vengeance appearing the most probable ones to get in the pay-off. Platers will make up the field in the rest of the races, two of the contests calling for races over the route distances and the other four will bring fields of sprinters to the post. The track is still in a muddy condition and mud-runners will again have to be given the preference to score in the various numbers. SANCTION— BJ IE GRANITE— AMERICAN THUNDER. The opening race brings to the post a large band of platers for a race over the five and a half furlongs distance. On the good win SANCTION turned in the other day over a sloppy track, he will have to be given the call for the major portion of this purse. He has but to race back to that performance to be able to be the ore to reach the finish line first. BLUE GRANITE, which was shipped up from Lexington, figures to be a contender here, for the gelding is at home in the going, his best efforts being over a muddy, or heavy track. The consistent filly AMERICAN THUNDER will have to be given a good chance to be among the first three horses, for she is in with light weight today and track conditions matter little to her. BALL GEE— TAKE A CHANCE— YVILDRAKE. We are looking for BALL GEE to prove a repeater in annexing the winners share of the purse in the second race. The gelding is in his best form at the present, he finishing no worse than second in his five starts over this track. He takes to any kind of a track, his last effort being a good win over a sloppy track. We doubt if any of this band will be able to take his measure should he turn in his usual performance. TAKE A CHANCE may be the one to account for the place money, should he take a liking to the muddy track. The old gelding WILDRAKE should have little trouble in accounting for the short end of the purse for, when the going is other than fast, the horses of his division have to step to keep him out of the picture. FUSS— SENTRY LASS— GLAD EFFORT. The third race is a five-eighths of a mile dash for two-year-olds. Ten youngsters have answered the call and FUSS figures best. The gelding won his last race in such good style and, as he is getting seven pounds off over that effort, we figure him to be home an easier winner today than he was in his last race. SENTRY LASS, while racing in the South the past winter, turned in some good efforts in the going and, on those races, appears to be the one that will give FUSS the most argument today. GLAD EFFORT for the short end of the purse. The colt has not been seen under colors at this track, but he ha-s been working out well and it would seem he is ready for one of his best races. PANDY— JOHN T. D.— CONQUISTADOR. A small but rather well matched field wfcI parade to the post in the fourth race, which calls for a sprint over the three-quarters distance. F. H. Martins PANDY may be the one to prove the winner. The mare has been rounding into winning form, hor last effort being a good second to Fannie May over a muddy track. She is due for a winning race and this looks like a good spot for her to turn the trick. JOHN T. D. will probably make PANDY step, for he has also shown signs of returning to his best form and, with his light impost, should prove dangerous. CONQUISTADOR should have little trouble in getting in the money, for he figures much the best of the rest of the field. HONI SOIT— MASTER A E— TOWED VENGEANCE. The Once Around Purse, an allowance race, at one mile, brings the best field of the day to the post. HONI SOIT may be the one to get home in front, but he will have to race at his best to beat MASTER ACE and VOWED VENGEANCE. He beat a good field by two lengths the last time out and, should he be able to duplicate that effort, we think he can show his heels to the rest of this field. MASTER ACE figures to be dangerous all the way for, while racing at Tijuana the past winter, he rounded into his best form and is in good condition at the present time. VOWED VENGEANCE took the measure of HONI SOIT the last time they met, but we doubt if he can finish better than third today, for the going may not be to his liking. BONNIE OMAR— JOHN JOHNSON JR-AVIATOR. BONNIE OMAR appears much the best of the seven starters entered in the sixth race, which call for a contest over the one mile and a sixteenth distance. He trimmed a good band of handicap horses the last time out. As todays race will be over the same distance and the track will also be to his liking, he should have little trouble in duplicating his last effort in proving the best betting proposition of the day. JOHN JOHNSON JR. may be the one to fill the two-hole, for he has shown ability to race well over a muddy track. AVIATOR should be found up with the leaders when the finish is reached if he races in his true form, but he may meet with some opposition from FRIGHTFUL. MOXTE.4fiI.E-BAD LUCK— JUST BEAU. The limit number of starters are entered in the concluding race of the day, with MONTEAGLE appearing the winner. The gelding has been showing improvement right along and he may be good enough to lead this band to the wire, for he races well in the muddy going. BAD LUCK has to be given a good chance to account for some part of the purse, for the old gelding seems to have returned to his best form. For the short end of the purse we are taking JUST BEAU. The gelding has shown enough speed in his past races to warrant him consideration in this kind of a field and, with the track to his liking, we look for him to give a good account of himself.
