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STALL ROOM EXHAUSTED Aurora Barns Filled With Horses Awaiting Meetings Inaugural. Surplus of Horses Makes Racing Secretary Leighs Task Easy No Space for Late Comers. AURORA, 111., April 26. Racing secretary-Dick Leigh of the Fox Valley Jockey Club took one last look around the Aurora race track yesterday, hoping to uncover a few extra stalls or some rubber barns in which to bed down late comers among the thoroughbred colony. Mr. Leighs journey was without success, and today, just four days before the Chicago racing season gets under way, not a single stall at the Fox Valley plant is unoccupied or unreserved. Mr. Leighs present difficulties, however, will only mean his task of drawing up the eight-race programs will be ah easier one, once the meeting is started. For, with the thousand and one stalls jammed with horses, it should not prove difficult to round up well-balanced fields for each of the contests that will be run during the nineteen-day meeting, which ends with the 2,000 added Illinois Derby on May 22. The owners and trainers are anxious to send their horses after the 25,000 in purse money which will be distributed, and large fields are certain to be the rule rather than the exception. NEWCOMERS ON HAND. Stables which have never before campaigned full strings here will be on hand for the opening day, featured by the ,500 Fox Valley Inaugural Handicap, at six furlongs, entries for which close Thursday. One of the strongest bands of two-year-olds is to be raced by Dick Vestal, former trainer for the Three Ds Stock Farm. Eight youngsters will race here under the colors of Vestal and Hampshire. The Oddesa Farms also will race a band here for the first time. All leading Chicago owners are expected to have starters in the Derby, The Waite Moving Picture Camera was receiving final tests this week, and other last-minute business was being attended to. The roll call for mutuel clerks was set for Thursday at 2 p. m. Steward Christopher J. FitzGerald, who will represent the state commission in the stand, was due at Aurora Tuesday, and his fellow stewards, J. T. Ireland and T. C. Bradley, will be here this week to complete the roster of officials. INAUGURAL ELIGIBLES. Though the closing time for the opening day stake is Thursday, racing secretary Leigh announced that he has received the entry of the following sprinters for the event: Silverette, Zevson, Marcabala, Black River, Biography, Boston Sound, Miss Gin-bar, Royal Broom, Judge Leer, Biff, Carvola, Woodlander, Corum, Porcellus and Colonel Ed. While all of the foregoing horses are not yet on the grounds at the Fox Valley Jockey Clubs track, the entire lot is expected in time for the prying off of the lid on the Illinois racing season, as arrangements have been made for the departure of a special train from Arlington Downs, in which a majority of them will be included. Practically all of the key men of the mutuel department are present with the arrival of W. J. McDonald, attache of the money room, and calculator Jack Gilmore.
