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AURORA ATTRACTS JOCKEYS Four Leading Riders to Pilot Horsea at Exposition Park. Officials Expect Largest Riding Colony in History of Track Chuck Parke Popular With Horsemen. AURORA, 111., April 25 Four of the first eight riders in the American jockey standings will be on hand at Aurora, Friday, when the curtain goes up on the long Illinois racing season, with the running of the first race of the nineteen-day spring meeting of the Fox Valley Jockey Club. Tha four are Charles Parke, Frank Chojnacki, Carlos Mojena, and the veteran Johnny Longden. Their leadership will be challenged by one of the largest riding colonies that has been seen at Aurora in many seasons. Both veterans and youngsters are included in a group which includes Johnny Donoho, Len Turner, Jim Frederick, Dick Simpson, Joe Grace, Ralph Root, Johnny Leyland, Charley Parvin, Homer Ferguson, Joe OMalley, Jimmy Dobson, Bob Haber, Harry Dudley, Joe Dyer, Harvey Duncan, Robert Tilden, Willie Boganowski, Bill Balzaretti, Tex Wilson, A. Fermin, Luke Laurin, Bobby Clemons, Johnny Burrill, E. Roehm, Harry Osborne, G. Rukas and Bill Barnett. Parke, only 16 years old, is the last of the famous Idaho riding family. One great ridei has come from the family, Ivan Parke. Two others proved themselves fairly capable Burley and Monte. Charley Parke is under contract to Benny Creech and, inasmuch as the Creeh string is one of the largest at Aurora, he is certain to have plenty oi chances to ride winners home. At present he is fourth in the American jockey standings. Right behind him is Frank Chojnacki, the Chicago youngster, who has been riding with the best of them during the winter. Next is Carlos Mojena, the temperamental Cuban, who is under contract to the Torri-ente stable, and who led all the riders at the Fair Grounds winter meeting in New Orleans. Johnny Longden is eighth in tha standings, and now that he has hooked up with so strong a trainer as A. G. Tarn, he seems to have taken a new lease on life. Annually, there is more interest in the youngsters riding at the Aurora meeting than at any other in the Chicago district The reason is that it is here that the apprentices who are to go on to become sensations during the Chicago season first begin ta demonstrate signs of knowing the right way around a race track. The race follower who can spot one or two unknowns and knowa enough about horsemanship to rate theii riding ability before the general publics attention is brought to the boy by his winners, is likely to have a profitable season. The list of youngsters who have first come into prominence at Aurora is too long to mention. But some of the better ones are Eddie Arcaro, Paul Keester and Dan Bram-mer. Both Keester and Brammer rode their first winners at the Aurora track. One of the prospects that will bear watch-ing has the added distinction of having tha most nearly unpronounceable name on the turf. He is Mike Dziedziech, although what his name may turn out to be by the time the printers and headline writers have finished with it is problematical.
