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FAST 1MCK FOR ILLINOIS DERBY SATURDAY ■ SB * EXPECT RECORD CROWD » No Change in Admission Policy— • Free Gate Remains. • Fair Rochester Arrives at Fox VaU! ley Course for ,000 Race — ■ Trace Call Threat. ♦ ■ AURORA, 111., May 18.— The first free Derby in the experience of Chicago turf followers will be offered at Exposition Park Saturday, when a field of ranking three-year-olds goes to the post for the first running of the ,000 added Illinois Derby at one mile and an eighth. General manager Robert S. Eddy, Jr., today made the announcement that there will be no change in the Aurora free gate policy Saturday, simply because the first of Chicagos 1933 three-year-old specials is to be the afternoon feature. "Admission to lawn and grandstand will, as usual, be absolutely free," Mr. Eddy declared. Such grandstand box seats as have not already been reserved will be placed on sale to the racing public, and the usual admission charge of .00, tax included, will be in force for the clubhouse." The arrival in Chicago of most of the Derby candidates and the drying out of the course to the point vhere a fast track can virtually be guaranteed for the stakes running, has given a decided impetus to public interest in the race. The largest crowd in the history of the Aurora track is expected. Fair Rochester, Lon Jones consistent bay colt, was one of the first of the outstanding candidates to reach Aurora. Shipped direct from Churchill Downs, Fair Rochester unloaded early today and was given an easy gallop this morning. A fit horse when he left Kentucky, Fair Rochester, has gained numerous supporters in the past day or two as a secondary favorite for the Illinois Derby. A trio of formidable contenders is stabled at Washington Park and will be vanned over to Aurora Friday. One is M. B. Cohens Col. Hatfield, the Louisiana Derby winner, another the Audley Farm Stables royally-bred Trace Call, and the third L. M. Seversons good mudlark, Spicson. Col. Hatfield and Spicson, because of their proved ability to negotiate soft going, were very well regarded as Derby threats when it seemed that the Aurora track would remain muddy to the end of the meeting, but with a fast track now in prospect, Trace Call has taken precedence over the pair in public esteem. In fact the sentiment which earlier in the week made the R. M. Eastman estates Charley O. an odds-on favorite over his opponents has waned somewhat in the past twenty-four hours and many horsemen now believe that Charley O. may have considerable competition for the post of favorite. Two candidates that were considered unlikely starters because of their remaining at Churchill Downs for a race today — Fingal and Pot au Brooms — are not definitely out of the Aurora stake. Presiding steward J. T. Ireland has been in touch with Col. E. R. Bradley, Fingals ov/ner, and has been assured that if Fingal proves sound he may be shipped to Aurora.
