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TODAYriLVJIYVyiY AURORA OPFNINH TODAY riLVJIYVyiY Jl l illllVJ 1 WLTL I Strike of Horsemen Settled and Racing Begins This Afternoon General Manager Trimble and Owners Reach Sat ¬ isfactory Agreement Everything Ready for Inauguration of Delayed Meeting AURORA 111 May 3 Racing at Aurora under the auspices of the Exposition Park Jockey Club will begin Saturday This announcement was made late this afternoon after the striking horsemen had conferred with manager Clifford R Trimble and reached an understanding relative to their demands The owners be ¬ gan making entries immediately after amicable relations were again established establishedUnder Under the arrangement concluded by the striking horsemen and the Exposition Park Jockey Club owners will be privileged to purchase their feed stuffs wher ¬ ever they elect and not be constricted to the dealers operating on the grounds groundsThe The new purse arrangement provides that the present standard of five races carrying 800 purses and two purses of 1000 value will prevail during the period of the first seven days Thereafter there will only be two purses of 800 value and five of 1000 each eachRespecting Respecting the one per cent intended for the Thoroughbred Horse Associations sink ¬ ing fund the Exposition Jockey Club is ready to honor any order in writing from the own ¬ ers desirous to assign the one per cent from their winning purses Only by an owner giving this written order will the one per cent be deducted from his purse winnings To have collected it otherwise would have been in contravention of the rule passed by the Illinois Turf Association last fall which prohibits any racing association to serve as a collecting agency If an owner chooses to assign a portion of his winnings and notifiea an association to that effect in writing it becomes mandatory for the association to comply with the written instruction instructionThe The lateness for making the entries over ¬ flowed the racing secretarys office with horsemen all eager to name their representa ¬ tives for Saturdays racing racingThe The opening of the Aurora racing had or ¬ iginally been scheduled for Wednesday but four days of passiveness on the part of the horsemen who refused to make entries in sufficient quantity to enable the opening caused a daily postponment culminating at noon Friday with announcement by manager Clifford R Trimble that no further attempt would be made to open until May 8 and if the horsemen then still continued their re ¬ luctance to make entries the spring meeting would be Called off and the track closed This announcement was in the form of a notice to the horsemen and placed conspicuously in the secretarys office and on all the stables stablesEvidently Evidently it served as the means to start discussions by the horsemen with the man ¬ agement and to present agreement
