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PLAN NEW AURORA STABLE 4 General Manager Carruthers to Make Use of Fair Buildings. Eight Hundred Permanent Stalls May Be Erected Requests Received for Fifteen Hundred Stalls. Exposition Park, Aurora, where the curtain will go up May 2 on the 1932 Chicago and Illinois racing season, swings into the first stage of preparation for the thoroughbreds Monday when the track will be thrown open for arriving stables. The first shipments are expected from the South by the middle of the week Owners of more than 300 horses, whose stable applications have been approved, have been notified that their stalls are ready and that they may ship at once. Others who have applied but who have not received steward Martin Nathansons O. K. are warned not to ship until so notified. General manager Ed F. Carruthers arrives from a swing through the winter track circuit today. He will be accompanied by John Keegan, newly appointed track superintendent for the Fox Valley course, and a man who had a finger in the erection of such tracks as the old Harlem course on the West Side, Arlington Park, Coney Island and Hialeah. Keegan will go at once to Aurora to assume his duties. He will begin work preparing the track Monday. The track has been covered with loam and straw and a cushion equal to that of any track in the country is expected to result from his expert handling. Mr. Carruthers reports unusual interest in the Chicago racing season and declares that he was swamped with requests for stall room. More than 1,500 have been received to date. That many more are expected by April 15, and it is Mr. Carruthers opinion that the present stable facilities at Exposition Park, consisting of 900 stalls, will not be sufficient. He has plans made and ready to be carried out, to build an additional 800 permanent stalls in the various fair buildings. This would bring the horse population up to 1,700 for Aurora. "Last year we set a new high mark in class of horses for Aurora," declared Mr. Carruthers. "We will have even better stables this year. It was a lean season for owners during the winter, and they are eager to get at Chicagos bigger purses. Many of these stables have never raced at Exposition Park before. It is their intention to start with the opening contest and race in this district right through to the fall."
