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CICERO RIDER, FRANK CHOJNACKI, AURORA STAR I RENAISSANCE IN FORM •- ■ Young Jockey First to Score With Four Winners at Meeting. «. Pilots Fanle, Ivy Maxwell, Wax and Flower Day to Victory — Jab- berie Earns Purse. AURORA, 111., May 4.— Mud runners had things all to themselves this afternoon at the Fox Valley Jockey Clubs track, where the Mendota Purse, a six furlongs dash, featured the seven-race program, but the show was put on by apprentice Frankie Chojnacki, who hails from nearby Cicero. The youngster demonstrated some fine horsemanship to pile up four victories and thereby . become the first jockey of the j j j season to score a triple or better. His suc-i | cessful mounts were Fanle, Ivy Maxwell, Wax and Flower Day in the first, third, fourth and sixth races, respectively. The headline attraction was taken by S. Bucklands Renaissance, which came from behind with a great spurt in the final quarter to win by the comfortable margin of two and a half lengths with something in [ reserve. Alwintour accounted for second I place, with Irish Wake just lasting long enough to nose out Jake Blieden for the show end of the purse. ! Irish Wake dominated the early stages I and continued to show the way as the field j headed into the home stretch, but Alwintour assumed command when straightened out and appeared to be on the way to victory. Renaissance swung extremely wide on the i final turn but, despite the loss of several lengths by this procedure, the seven-year-old brown son of Master Charlie — Humanitarian streaked down the stretch and over-I hauled Alwintour a sixteenth of a mile be-I fore the finish. Once in front, Renaissance J quickly added to his margin and jockey T. I Meloche, who had the mount, was easing him up in the closing stages of the race. Backers of Renaissance received 1.40 for j straight tickets. HEAVY TRACK PREVAILS. Threatening weather and a heavy track prevailed for the running of the third days program, which was made up mostly of sprints. Five of the seven events carded were given over to thoroughbreds partial to the shorter route, whereas the final two / | contests were of distances of more than a/ mile. ! All of the races were of a claiming ordef ] | but in several instances they attracted the | j better class of members of the selling divi-I sion, being topped by the Mendota, in which | ! there were seven starters, with the claiming price from ,500 down to ,250 in value. Two-year-olds performed for the first time at the current meeting with an almost capacity field of youngsters parading in the second race before the good sized Monday crowd, which attended in spite of the fact that gray clouds hung low over the course and threatened to furnish more rain. Eleven maiden racers, three-year-olds and j , over, made up the field for the initial race j I on the card, which was at a distance of six furlongs, and Fanle graduated from the ranks of non-winners with comparative ease. The bay daughter of Lee O. Cotner, trounced Flutterby by the margin of three lengths with Joan Macaw, the public choice, coming from far out of it to be third. Fanle, never left the decision in doubt at any stage of the race, quickly opening up a length and a half advantage in the first quarter, which was increased to three lengths as she arrived at the finish line. Flutterby made a challenge after heading into the stretch, but all that apprentice Frank Chojnacki had to do was let out a wrap and Fanle bounded away to a decisive lead. JABBERIE PROVES BEST. Jabberie proved best of the juveniles in the second event, a dash of four and a half furlongs and romped to a two-length decision over Broadway Girl, with Old Fondo accounting for third place. There was a considerable delay at the gate when Equality unseated her rider and ran away five furlongs and brought forth laughter from the spectators with her antics in front of the clubhouse. However, after being captured and returned to the starting gate, little time Continued on twenty-sixth page. ! j CICERO RIDER, FRANK CHOJNACKI, AURORA STAR Continued from first page. was lost in dispatching the field, with Jab-berie being rushed into a commanding lead. Broadway Girl followed in closest pursuit of the pacemaker throughout, but was unable to get closer than two lengths to Jabberie at any stage of the contest. The winner was second choice in the betting, returning 1.20 for each investment. Chojnacki piloted his second winner of the day when he guided Ivy Maxwell to a hard-earned triumph in the five and a half furlongs dash, third on the card. Empress Yvonne, the favorite, was a neck behind the winner at the finish, with Imelda, accounting for third money. Lucky Prospero was the pacemaker for a half mile of the journey, then gave way to the challenge of Empress Yvonne as the field straightened out in the stretch and Ivy Maxwell moved up in menacing fashion. Seventy yards from the finish. Ivy Maxwell forged to the front, and though hard ridden, was unable to build up much of a margin on Empress Yvonne. For the third time during the afternoon Chojnacki basked in the limelight as he gained the decision with Wax in the fourth, another dash of six furlongs. Stimulator finished second, and Haggerson was third to reach the finish. The Chicago youngster came through with his best exhibition of horsemanship in coming from behind with Wax. Chojnacki piloted a winner in the sixth as Flower Day wore down Baboo and scored by a neck in the mile and a sixteenth, j making it a perfect day for the young reins- ! man. Paul T. finished in third place in the field of six starters over the mile and a sixteenth route. As usual, Baboo opened up a big lead on his rivals but Flower Day went along in second place from the start.
