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CHICAGO STABLES FOR AURORA Knebelkamp and Morris, Valley Lake, Superior, Rosenheim and Dearborn Stables Assigned Stalls. Among the better known Chicago stables that have been allotted stall room at Aurora, which will pry off the Illinois racing lid at Exposition Park on May 2, are the Valley Lake Stable, owned by the Nash Brothers. Mrs. Emil Denemarks string of twenty; the Knebelkamp and Morris outfit; Ben Rosenheim; the Rainbow Stock Farm owned by Mr. P. P. Flaherty; Bill Schmidts Superior Stable; the Dearborn Stable and William E. Hughes. There was a flood of stable applications over the week-end, and it now appears certain that a new high mark will be reached for Aurora in the number of horses. The business of preparing for the inauguration of racing swung into, high speed today, not only at the Chicago offices but at the track proper. In Chicago, track superintendent John Keegan went over plans for preparing the course, while Martin Nathan-son and Charles Henry, stewards, were scanning stall applications and okaying the desirable horses. At Exposition Park the ground crew completed the cleaning up of the stables, and the barns were thrown open for arriving thoroughbreds. The first shipments, according to word from the South, is expected by Wednesday noon. With the southern tracks closed and little if any racing intervening, the trek northward will begin in earnest this week. Within ten days the horse population at the" Fox Valley oval is expected to number several hundred. Training will begin in earnest within two weeks. Manager Carruthers announced that because of the big number of applications, he had issued orders for the erection of more stalls in the various fair buildings. There is space for an additional 800 horses in these structures,
