Fourteen Named To Start In The Illinois Derby: Mata Hari Favorite; Dixianas Crack Filly Best Horse in Auroras Outstanding Race.; Plight Expected to Prove Real Dangerous Rival--Look for a Banner Attendance., Daily Racing Form, 1934-05-23

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MATA HARI FAVORITE Dixianas Crack Filly Best Horse in inAuroras Auroras Outstanding Race Plight Expected to Prove Real Dan Dangerous gerous Eival Look for a aBanner Banner Attendance AURORA 111 May 22 The 10000 added Illinois Derby outstanding stake offering of the Fox Valley Jockey Club and first of the major stakes to be decided in the Chicago region will have its renewal at Aurora Wednesday The field representing as usual performers from all parts of the coun ¬ try and headed by Mata Hari owned by Charles T Fisher of Detroit and William Sachsenmaiers Plight numbers fourteen fourteenDespite Despite the fact that fillies seldom achieve success in Derbys and which is best told in statistics and traditions the queenly Mata Hari will undoubtedly rule a strong choice to annex the Aurora feature While match ¬ ing strides with her more masculine rivals in the Kentucky Derby for which she was one of the favorites the daughter of Peter Hastings and War Woman gave an excellent account of herself when she closed that en ¬ gagement in fourth place behind Cavalcade Discovery and Agrarian a trio which later met in the Preakness another of the three yearold classics and which resulted in a win for High Quest when he nosed out his stable mate Cavalcade while Discovery and Agrar ¬ ian also finished in close formation to the winner winnerCLASS CLASS OF THE RACE RACEIn In the Illinois Derby Mata Hari is not meeting such a formidable band and a dupli ¬ cation of her performance in the Churchill fixture would be good enough to give her rivals a stubborn contest and still retain enough successfullyThe stamina to carry on successfully The greatly improved Plight which will represent William Sachsenmaier is looked upon to give Mata Hari the strongest con ¬ tention and he will verify this assertion if he comes through with a similar perform ¬ ance such as he put forth to win the Texas Derby when he turned back two Derby win ¬ ners in Hickory Lad and the highly re ¬ garded Riskulus RiskulusNext Next to Mata Hari the western forces are headed by W C Stroubes Boy Valet which he recently acquired from E R Bradley who named him for this stake In his first start for the Texas millionaire which was last Saturday the son of Black Servant and Beach Talk victory was so impressive that he won many friends when he came from last place to down a band of topnotch sprinters winning with speed to spare spareAside Aside from Mata Hari and Plight the field is evenly matched and if either of this pair should fail in their quest of victory the finish might be an exceedingly close one Although several other westernowned are expected to accept Mata Hari is outstand ¬ ing among them and if the eastern repre ¬ sentatives are to be turned back the Fisher filly is the most logical one to accomplish the task taskThere There were fourteen acceptances over Continued on twentyfifth page AWAIT THE BUGLE CALL CALLContinued Continued from first page Charles T Fisher C W Hay William E Schmidt Stuyvesant Peabody W Sachsen maier and others othersOn On Saturday the Debutante Stakes which has been run annually for a number of jyears will call to colors for contest over five and onehalf furlongs practically all of the leading twoyearold fillies racing in the West A large percentage of the leading stables will be represented in this race and as large a field as ever paraded for the fix ¬ ture is looked for


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