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NAME SIR MIDAS FOR DERBY Reichert Star Made Eligible for Auroras 2,000 Prize. E. K. Bryson Requests Stalls for Twelve Horses Stable to Be Shipped JFrom Maryland. AURORA, 111., April 15. Sir Midas, owned and trained by the Illinois horseman, William C. Reichert, is the third horse to be nominated for the 2,000 added Illinois Derby, climax of the nineteen-day Aurora race meeting, which opens the Chicago turf season May 1. Racing secretary Dick Leigh announced yesterday that Sir Midas is one of seven horses arriving at the track to carry the green and white Reichert silks. Sir Midas was a beaten favorite in the ,000 Arkansas Derby early this month, and before that the son of Golden Guinea and Sweet Yvette had raced most successfully at New Orleans; where he won five races from the better three-year-olds. Though bowing to Mrs. V. Wyses Eastport in the Derby at Hot Springs, owner Reichert has visions of winning the richer Fox Valley Derby. Sir Midas raced at the Aurora track a year ago and proved himself one of the best juveniles there. East-port has not yet been named for the Illinois Derby, but the Wyse stable is to be shipped here before the meeting opens, and he most certainly will be nominated for the mile and a furlong event. CALUMET DICK COMING. One of the most successful stables each year at Aurora is that owned by E. K. Bryson. The Bryson stable will again campaign here, for Mr. Leigh also announced the application of trainer G. R. Bryson for twelve stalls. The Bryson horses, now in Maryland, will be shipped here next week to await the opening. Among those coming, may be the stables handicap star. Calumet Dick, which once raced for Warren Wright and has recently accounted for both the Bowie Handicap and the Southern Maryland Handicap at the Bowie track. Should he be included among the shipment here, he will vie for honors among the older horses, with Mrs. E. H. Bartletts fleet Zev-son, which won four races in a row at the Fair Grounds before losing by a length to Calumet Dick in the Mardi Gras Handicap, where they were equal choices. One of the early arrivals is the sprint star. Black River, which runs in the name of Long and Sullivan and is trained by Mose Haller. Black River was beaten two noses in 1:10 for six furlongs in a most recent start at Tropical Park. He has won three races there. Frank Seremba brought in eighteen horses one of the larger stables early in the week to stay throughout the meeting.
