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INAUGURAL FIELD TAKING FORM Carvola, Reelon, Zevson, Black River, Biff and Judge Leer Among Expected Starters in Aurora Handicap One Week From Saturday AURORA, 111., April 20. The field for the first feature event of the Illinois racing season, the Fox Valley Inaugural Handicap, which gets the nineteen-day Aurora race meeting under way on May 1, began to take shape today as stable reservations continued to arrive from South, East and West. The six furlongs sprint, for a prize of ,500, has already attracted the owners of more than a dozen of the speediest three-year-olds and older thoroughbreds, and the list of names they will drop in the entry box a week from 5 tomorrow will be an imposing one. Racing secretary Dick Leigh will make public the weigRts for the Jnaugural Handicap on Friday, the day before the opening. Among those preparing now with the Inaugural Handicap as the immediate objective are E. K. Brysons Carvola, the fine four-year-old filly which ran a smashing second to Hollyrood in last years Chicago Derby; Coward and Coffeys Reelon, third to Rushaway and Count Morse a year ago at Aurora in the Illinois Derby; Black River, which has won three races in Florida this year; the New Orleans sprint champ, Zevson, and such other fleet handicap performers as Woodlander, Corum, Judge Leer, Biff, Boston Sound, Miss Ginbar, Biography, Marcabala, Play Pal and Porcellus. SPECIAL FROM TEXAS. General manager Robert S. Eddy, Jr., of the Fox Valley Jockey Club, received word yesterday that a special train of ten express cars is to leave Arlington Downs on Monday bound for the Aurora track, where it will arrive the following day. Included in this shipment will be the stables of Mrs. Benny Creech, Clarence Davison, "Butsey" Hernandez, Coward and Coffey, and George Felkner. With the arrival of this special practically all the stall room at the race track will be filled. There are well over 500 thoroughbreds on the grounds now. The Bahr starting gate, which is to be used throughout the meeting, which will be climaxed by the running of the 2,000 added Illinois Derby, has arrived at the track, and Johnny Morrissey, who will return as starter, checked in yesterday to begin schooling operations from the gate this morning. Most of his ground crew preceded him here and the others will be at the oval by the end of the week.
