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AURORA TURF NOTES f S : and Eddie Griffin, custodian of the jockey quarters, reported that the following riders are already present at Aurora: Paul Ryan, Charlie Mills, Chester Crowhurst, George OBryan, Jose Marrero, Amiiio Marrero, Dale Edwards, Don Barnett, Clay Simpson, Ralph Bohn, Buddy Vail, Dick Clemons, Fred Ward and Jimmy Dobson. Among the early nominations for the Illinois Derby, 2,000 added feature which will be staged on the final day of the meeting and for which entries close on May 15, includes C. W. Pershalls Winged Victory, W. C. Reicherts Sir Midas, Millsdale Stables Grey Count and Mrs. C. Gregorys Dead Calm. R. T. "Dick" Watts, trainer of the thoroughbreds owned by Leo Beyda of Chicago, is due to arrive from Hot Springs during the weelc, having rested up his horses following the close of the Oaklawn meeting. The stable includes the promising threes year-old Delta Dan. George Demarest, former owner, arrived from Now Orleans and will be a member of the mutuel staff at the Fox Valley Jockey Clubs track. Roll call for mutuel department workers is scheduled for Thursday afternoon at 2:00 oclock, according to the announcement made by Alfic Irwin here Monday. For the first time under the present regime of the Fox Valley Jockey Club, Joseph Cat-tarinich, Canadian sportsman, will not servo as supervisor of the mutuels. Due to illness Cattarinich is forced to remain idle and his position will be filled by Leo Dandurand, who successfully handled the task at the Louisiana Jockey Club last winter. The Morris Brothers, E. F. and W. C, have one of the largest stables of thoroughbreds quartered at the Aurora course, which i3 made up of Judge Primrose, Red Diamond, Dorsays, Pass Christian, Donie, Voltear, Honeysweet, Jubilargo, Dawnchild, Lotta Airs, Broadway Lights, Contraband, Sedgte and Julius J. R. Word was received from trainer Glenn Feikner that he will ship the following horses under his care from Arlington Downs to Aurora during this week: Porcellus, Lunsford, Pompous Genie, Aura, The Jurist, Our Bud, Dixie Fox, Scotch Thistle, Slavonia and Bulstrode. The racers are the property of various owners. "Chuck" Miller, son of the Hawthorne track superintendent, has only two horse3 at the Fox Valley track that he will campaign for Mrs. C. C. Miller. They are the two-year-old Poliytaur and the three-year-old Campo. Races for two-year-olds at the Aurora course will be over a distance of four and a half furlongs, the first of which is scheduled for maiden juveniles on Monday, May 3, the second day of the scheduled nineteen-day meeting. Despite the fact that inclement weather has been quite a detriment, starter John Morrissey and his crew of assistants, who have been here for the past two weeks, have managed to get in several days of schooling. The latest type model of the Baby Bahr gate is among the new features at the Aurora plant, and Morrissey and his assistants have been acquainting themselves with the new apparatus when the weather did not permit the schooling of horses. One of the most pretentious stables to arrive over the week-end at the Fox Valley Jockey Clubs track was that of Paul Keiley, which got in from Tanforan on Sunday. Among the horses that Keiley brought in from the Pacific Coast for a season of campaigning in Illinois during the summer included Colonel Ed, a candidate for the Fox Valley Handicap; Fanfern, Parawick, Merry Caroline, Gloria Greenock, Dark Zeni, Homer L, Les Miserable, Shes Right, Gene Essa, Sis George, Hardware and Prince Heather. Only two deaths have been reported In the thoroughbred ranks at the Fox Valley Jockey Clubs track since the exodus of thoroughbreds from the South began. E. G. Hoffman, Illinois turfman, reported the lo3s of the plater-sprinter, Bustanybody, and John Marchese, trainer for the Red Cross Stable, announced that the four-year-old filly, Moll, died of an ailment contracted en route from New Orleans to Aurora,
