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MATAHARI ILLINOIS DERBY CHOICE Brilliant Dixiana Filly to Be Shipped to Aurora Sunday to Start in Exposition Parks 10000 Added AddedFeature Feature Next Wednesday AURORA 111 May 15 With nominations to the number of fortyeight on hand before the Illinois Derby closing last night and with assurance that Dixianas fleet filly Mata Hari will be shipped here to hold her place as favorite Aurora officials today were in communication with the owners of all prominent nominees for the 10000 added fix ¬ ture to ascertain their shipping plans Eleven of the eligibles are already stabled at the Fox Valley course Some of those named weeks ago have not been progressing as well in their training as had been expected and are no longer likely starters But of the list of fifty nominees about twenty shape up as in ¬ tended starters that have a chance for the rich prize that will reward the winner at the end of the Illinois Derbys mile and a fur ¬ long longMata Mata Hari has ranked as the probable fa ¬ vorite for the Illinois Derby for several weeks but there was for a time some doubt as to whether she would be sent here Re ¬ ports from Detroit today were that Charles T Fisher Detroit motor magnate who owns Dixiana has instructed trainer Clyde Van Dusen to ship Mata Hari from Churchill Downs to Aurora over the weekend before bringing her on to Detroit for the long meet ¬ ing there Because she will be favored by the mile and a furlong distance of the Illi ¬ nois Derby as against the mile and a quarter which proved a trifle too much for her in the Kentucky Derby no threeyear old nominated seems likely to press her for the position of public choice choiceOne One of the major threats seems to be Sun Tempest Willis Sharpe Kilmers good colt that last year equaled the track record for five furlongs at Lincoln Fields and shapes up as a potential threat for the threeyear fContinited on twentyfirst page MATA HARI IS DERBY CHOICE Continued from first page old championship of 1934 on some of his other juvenile races Kilmer was a late nominator of three horses Sun Tempest Sunador and Fritter Circle and is regarded as certain to start at least one of them themOthers Others highly regarded are the C V Whit ¬ ney pair of Collateral and Fogbound from which no definite advices have yet been re ¬ ceived other than their nominations Wil Ogles Patchpocket Plight the Texas Derby winner is now at Churchill Downs and trainer Phil Reuter will arrive Sunday with Plight and his other Derby nominee Indian Salute SaluteThe The Derby eligibles already on the grounds are Boy Valet originally nominated by Col E R Bradley but sold to the Corsi cana Stable Joseph Cattarinichs pair of Loggia and Pharatime Frank Grands Morning Cry L M Seversons Jens Son Mr and Mrs W E Schmidts Para Four and Irish Image Stuyvesant Peabodys Technoc ¬ racy H C McConnells Dogmata and Mrs Paul Kelleys Grayback GraybackAn An important sifting out of Derby candi ¬ dates will take place Saturday with the run ¬ ning of the Derby Trial Purse at one mile and seventy yards as the sixth race The Saturday feature is the Governors Handi ¬ cap at six furlongs but more public interest Is expected to center in the Derby Trial
