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AURORA BOOKS ISSUED Reveals Fifteen Per Cent Increase in Prize Distribution. 25,000 to Be Distributed Among Winning Horsemen During Coming Meeting 8 Races Daily. AURORA, 111., April 8. The Fox Valley Jockey Club, with a fifteen per cent increase in purse distribution over any previous meeting, will distribute about 25,000 to horsemen during the coming Aurora race meeting opening the Chicago turf season on May 1. The first edition of racing secretary Richard A. "Dick" Leighs condition book, calling for a bigger increase than has been the custom in the past, is in the hands of horsemen and reveals a larger number of events for the better sort of horses. In addition to the 2,000 added Illinois Derby, which again climaxes the nineteen-day meeting on the final Saturday, May 22, there will be ,500 handicaps each Saturday during the meeting, with ,000 handicaps each Wednesday and Saturday. The minimum purse will be 00, with at least three races daily at a higher figure. There will be eight races each day during the spring meeting, an increase over a year ago when the week-day programs called for but seven. Post time for the first event will be 2:15. INAUGURAL HANDICAP. The first feature of the long six-month Illinois season that will see more money distributed hereabouts than during any recent year will be the Fox Valley Inaugural Handicap, a six-furlong sprint for three-year-olds and upward. The Inaugural Handicap will carry a purse of ,500, with entries due Thursday, April 29. The numerous juveniles at the track will get their first crack at some of the money on Monday over a four and one-half furlongs route. Auroras thousand and one stalls are filling rapidly this week with the arrival of several carloads from southern tracks. Four cars from Tropical Park and New Orleans checked in earlier in the week, and the Hot Springs brigade was close behind. In the New Orleans shipment were several pros- Continued on twenty-second page. AURORA BOOKS ISSUED Continued from first page. pective Illinois Derby candidates, including Alderman John J. Coughlins High Lark, the son of Blue Larkspur and High Ideal, which won his first three starts before developing a tendency to run wide. C. S. Bancrofts Skeeter, sixth in the Louisiana Derby, was another arrival, along with the stables of R. B. Allen, J. Klucina, Harry Hockenbury, Dan Hardy, the Chappel Brothers, J. A. Davis, Charles Miller, Mosc Hal-ler, Lonnlc Edwards, M. Weil, H. H. Chopin, Elmer Johnson, Al Horton, Mrs. C. C. Winters, L. M. Thompson, W. Webber, Mrs. J. M. Hubbard and George Tilden.
