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HERNANDEZ-BRYSON CONTEST Two Good Strings to Campaign Again at Aurora Track. , Continue Feud for Money-Winning Honors Begun During Recent Meeting at Fair Grounds. AURORA, 111., April 16. The consistent band of thoroughbreds campaigned here each year during the Aurora race meeting by the New Orleans turfman, "Butsey" Hernandez, will again be back in full force for the opening of the 1937 Chicago turf year. When the first field goes to the post at the Fox Valley track on Saturday, May 1, the Hernandez stable will renew its rivalry with the E. K. Bryson band to be the leading money-winning stable at the track. During the long New Orleans winter meeting the Hernandez and Bryson stables waged a close fight to finish in the top spot on the list of purse winners. Hernandez color-bearers came out ahead, with nineteen wins for a total of 4,735 to Brysons seventeen wins for a total of 4,580. So close was the battle that it was not decided until the final afternoon of the four-month meeting. Both Hernandez and Bryson have requested stalls from racing secretary Dick Leigh and they have been granted. Eight Hernandez thoroughbreds came directly to Aurora from New Orleans, while the remainder, including Marcabala, Flag Cadet Continued on twenty-sixth page. HERNANDEZ-BRYSON CONTEST Continued from first noge. and Woodlander, a trio of good allowanco and handicap performers, are now campaigning at Arlington Downs and will be shipped here at the close of that meeting. Hernandez expects to have a capable representative in the ,500 Fox Valley Inaugural Handicap, six-furlong opening day feature. In addition to these two leading stables, others which ended high on the list at the Fair Grounds meeting will be on hand. The Millsdale Stable, owned by A. Pelleterl and M. L. Emerich of Chicago, and including the Louisiana Derby winner, Grey Count has engaged a dozen stalls and Mrs. C. C. Winters, fifth highest money winner down south, already has nine here. Auroras opening Is but two weeks from tomorrow and nearly half of the thousand and one stalls are occupied with most of the rest reserved. Work on the new camera tower is progressing on schedule with tests due in another week. The task of glassing in the back of the grandstand has long since been completed and workmen are now turning their attention to the extensive parking space back of the stands. This area i3 bet ing completely covered with fresh gravel and the road approach to it from the highway is being graded and smoothed, t i . jo;- k.j i . t r, j
