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FILLING AURORA STALLS Stable Room Will Be at Premium After Mondays Arrivals. Special Track of Eight Express Cars Leaving Arlington Downs Sunday Creech String Largest. AURORA, 111., April 24. Few stalls will remain empty at Aurora after Monday, for late in the day a special train of eight express cars carrying more than 100 thoroughbreds will arrive at the Fox Valley courses siding from Arlington Downs. The close of the Texas meeting this afternoon will release hundreds of fit horses for northern racing, and a large percentage of the better ones have been promised for Aurora. The train, which will run on passenger schedule, is to leave Arlington Downs tomorrow. The largest string aboard is expected to be that of Mrs. A. M. Creech, which has been very successful in Texas. Among the nineteen horses coming to Aurora are Sound Advice, Hasty Glance, Technique, and the Illinois Derby candidate, Reaping. A. G. Tarn is shipping his Louisiana Derby winner, Rushaway, one of the most formidable Illinois Derby contenders, and a half-dozen older hors-es. Four other Derby nominees Professor Paul, Palm Island, Lolschen and Flag Cadet are included in the stables which Jim Chesney, Butsy Hernandez and Clyde Troutt are bringing on the special. The Three Ds Stock Farm is sending a division to race through the Chicago season. C. E. Davison, perennially one of the most successful owners in Illinois racing, will have a large string on the train, and W. C. Stroube will be represented by several of his" better campaigners. President Robert S. Eddy will act as host tomorrow afternoon at Auroras annual open house, and the usual large throng of racegoers from Chicago and the surrounding territory is expected to be on hand for a preview of the seasons first battlefield in the long 1936 tussle with the mutuels. The nineteen-day spring meeting opens on Friday. The extensive improvements which have been made at the Fox Valley course between seasons have been completed, and the Aurora plant could open tomorrow. The most spectacular of the changes made has been in the reconstruction of the mu- .Continued an twenty-ninth page." FILLING AURORA STALLS Continued from first page. tuel plant. The entire main betting line was moved back some sixty feet from its former position, and 20,000 additional square feet, of floor space was thus added to the betting ring beneath the grand stand. In case, of unfavorable weather the space can accommodate a throng of thousands without the slightest crowding. The main line itself is now the longest at any American race course, the windows stretching more than a block in an unbroken front. Cashiers and sellers will operate from the same side of the mutuel department this year. That no mistake was made in resurfacing the racing strip last summer a task which involved the spreading of a new topsoil to a depth of twelve inches all around the mile course has been evident from the elation of trainers as they have watched their horses work over it in preparation for opening day. After extensive working over by Placide Frigerios track crew, the track has proved virtually as fast as the hard track formerly prevailing and has the added advantage of having as soft a cushion as any race course in the Chicago district. 1
