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ILLINOIS RACING SEASON BEGINS AT AURORA TODAY SIXTEEN IN FEATURE Large and Well Matched Field Is Named for Inaugural Handicap Outlook Bright and Encouraging for forOne One of Most Successful Meetings MeetingsEver Ever Held at Exposition Park AURORA 111 April 30 The field for the Inaugural Handicap with a purse of 1200 for threeyearolds and over at six furlongs follows PP Horse Wt Jockey JockeylMinton lMinton 107 R Heigle 2 Technocracy 99 3 fFair Image 104 4 Paul T 109 J McCoy 5 JLoggia 99 J Guerra 6 Levaal 105 7 Preferred 104 8 Miss Melody 107 9 tSupme Swt 105 10 Frch Knight 101 11 ttAltmark 107 12 Our Justice 108 T Reno 13 ttCaptain Joy 105 R Haber 14 Blue Day 114 J Leyland 15 Flying Cadet 109 16 Zekiel 108 J Guerra GuerrafSuperior fSuperior Stable and Mrs W E Sch iidt entry JF Seremba and J Cattarinich entry ffB Hernandez entry S Peabody entry AURORA 111 April 30 After several weeks of preparation Exposition Park is ready for the opening of the Illinois racing season The sport will be returned to this section Tuesday when the Fox Valley Jockey Club inaugurates its second spring meeting which will embrace twenty days and serve as a forerunner for subsequent Chicago meetings which will keep the horses active until the closing day of October OctoberA A crowd of between 10000 and 20000 race followers hungry for a sight of race horses in the flesh after a winter of hibernation is expected to fill the remodeled stands and lawn of the Fox Valley plant for the seasons inaugural inauguralThe The changes made between seasons in the setting at Aurora are certain to surprise those veterans who have been coming to Aurora each spring since 1923 to welcome the thoroughbreds back to Chicago The track was taken over upon such short notice last spring by Robert S Eddy and Joseph Cattarinich that there was no time for im ¬ proving it in 1933 but in the year since the last meeting the new management has done wonders A mammoth new oddsboard 120 feet in length has been constructed in the infield to contain all the information that was in other years scattered upon small boards throughout the grounds Extensive landscaping and painting has improved the courses appearance greatly There has been reconstruction of sections of the long grand ¬ stand And weeks of work by an expert track crew has so aided the speed of the racing strip that many horsemen will be surprised if new records are not established establishedBLUE BLUE DAY TOP WEIGHT WEIGHTThe The program for the opening day is one that promises well with the Inaugural Handicap with 1200 added and for three yearolds and over the feature offering Six ¬ teen of the original twentyseven nominees accepted the weights of the handicappers and in their judgment A G Tarns BUG Day is entitled to carry top weight drawing an assignment of 114 pounds for the three quarters test Mrs Jess Burks Flying Cadet and J F Rectors Paul T are next in the weight allotments each having to carry 109 pounds Frankie Serembas Zekjel is slated to carry 108 the same as Mrs J Chesneys Our Justice and one pound less than the Shandon Farms Minton Six well balanced contests will support the fea ¬ ture and the outlook for an interesting day of sport is exceedingly bright brightThat That interest in the coming meeting is running high is best told by the several thousand visitors that accepted the invita ¬ tion of general manager Robert S Eddy and Continued on twentyeighth page ILLINOIS RACING SEASON BEGINS AT AURORA TODAY Continued from first page came to the course Sunday to see for them ¬ selves the many improvements and innova ¬ tions that have been completed since the last meeting meetingConditions Conditions locally have been on an up ¬ ward trend for several months and the lack of opposition this year is an important factor and manager Eddy and his associates con ¬ fidently believe the meeting will result profitably profitablyThe The quality of material available for this years meeting greatly surpasses the calibre of horses which have been here in previous years Many prominent patrons will be present including a host of Chicago owners The colors of P A and R J Nash owners of the Shandon Farm Stable Stuyvesant Peabody William Schmidt who races the Superior Stable E H McMahon Mrs Val Crane owner of the Wild Rose Farm Stable and Mrs William Schmidt and others will play racingThe an important part in the Aurora racing The last count of the registrations reveal there are 482 horses on the grounds of which ninetyfour are twoyearolds 117 threeyearolds and 272 that are fouryear olds and older
