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HANAUERS FINE RIDE Plays Important Part in Easily Achieved Triumph of Hazel Eye Tilly Takes Eleanor Whitney Purse Purseby by Four Lengths With High Man Manand and Grandmas Boy Following AURORA 111 May 5 After enjoying a run of success in the first four races the favorite followers ran into a snag in the next two events one of which was the Eleanor Whitney Claiming Purse a mile and seventy yards contest that served as the feature contest of the days program of seven races at the Fox Valley Jockey Clubs course over a heavy track trackIn In the Eleanor Whitney Hazel Eye ridden by Carl Hanauer outran his rivals from start to finish to lead High Man across the line by four lengths while Grandmas Boy landed the show portion of the purse and the heavilysupported Sorcery a previous win ¬ ner here drew up in last place a badly beaten runner runnerMrs Mrs A Deckers chestnut filly which was bred by Alderman J 3 Coughlin jumped into the lead soon after the start and re ¬ mained there for every stride of the journey thanks to a welljudged bit of horsemanship displayed by the tiny Hanauer HanauerLANDS LANDS IN LAST PLACE PLACESorcery Sorcery followed Hazel Eye for the first quarter despite the fact that he was carried wide on the clubhouse turn But that was the only real speed that Sorcery displayed during the entire mile and seventy yards race for the son of Black Servant began dropping back steadily until he landed in last place placeTaken Taken under restraint Hazel Eye opened up a lead of three lengths by the time the halfmile post was reached and though Grandmas Boy issued a challenge approach ¬ ing the threequarters mark the leader was not to be overtaken overtakenAfter After straightening out in the stretch Hazel Eye went about the task of increasing her advantage and was quite successful and consequently had something left when the finish was reached Backers of Hazel Eye received 2560 for each 2 investment on the win end in the mutuels mutuelsSunny Sunny weather prevailed for the first time since the inauguration of the 1937 Illinois racing season at the Aurora plant but track conditions were unchanged and the contest ¬ ants in the seven races presented found heavy going again the order for the days sport sportINCREASED INCREASED ATTENDANCE ATTENDANCEThough Though the sun made its appearance it was accompanied by a brisk chill breeze that wafted in from the north so that top ¬ coats proved a comfortable piece of apparel Despite the breeze the return of bright weather was welcomed by all and sundry and was responsible for an increase in at ¬ tendance over the previous day dayThe The program was made up of six claiming races and a special weights event for juve ¬ niles Two races over a distance including the Eleanor Whitney Purse a claiming event sixth on the program was the offer ¬ ing for the fourth day of the season seasonUnassisted Unassisted which ranked among the best juveniles performing in New Orleans during Continued on thirty second page HANAUERS FINE RIDE Continued from first page the past winter and the winner of three races in the Crescent City romped to an easy victory in his initial appearance of the Aurora season defeating five other young Qters in a dash at four and a half furlongs J E Millers brown colt held a margin of four lengths over Chatter Wrack one of the two representatives from the stable of Chap pel Brothers while Mr Grief collected the short end of the purse purseRAPID RAPID BELLS BY HEAD HEADClarence Clarence Davison Illinois turfman chalked up his first success of the meeting in the second race when Rapid Bells the choice scored by the scant margin of a head over All Night which was a nose in front of Tad 3tt was a threecornered struggle all during the final furlong of the contest and Henry Hauer who was astride the winner had to come through with a powerful finish in or fler to ward off the challenge of All Night The latter was forced to race in the worst footing for a good portion of the journey and closed fastest of all The winner paid 680 680Displaying Displaying a liking for the footing and possessing the speed of the six that started in the third race Russell Jewetts bay mare jockana made a show of her opposition prancing home ten lengths in advance of her nearest adversary Sun Voter Third money went to Two Brooms which was four lengths farther back Little Paul Ryan pilot of the public choice got the fiveyear old daughter of Jock Birdie Barbour away from the starting gate in front and immedi ¬ ately opened up a long lead on his rivals after which he took a light hold until mid ¬ way of the stretch where he released the grip and Jockana added to her already large margin The winner paid 540 540The The first surprise of the day came with the running of the fourth race a dash of five and onehalf furlongs in which Fred Wellers Swap came from last place a fur ¬ long from the finish to overtake Gibbys Choice and win by a length and a half Sun Dora was the other to figure in the payoff garnering third place When Swap was taken to the outside at the head of the stretch the chestnut colt picked up the lead ¬ ers in rapid manner and overhauled Gibbys Choice in the last sixteenth Backers of Swap received 1660 for 2 straight bets betsAnother Another outsider came down to the finish line on the front end of the procession when Tiger Claw accounted for the fifth race on the card returning 2480 for 2 straight certificates The brown gelding which races for Mrs K ONeil was extended to the limit in order to take the measure of HiWell by threequarters of a length while Sherron captured the short end of the purse Rated close behind Jeanne Son which had cut out the running for threequarters Tiger Claw assumed the lead with a rush from this point and appeared to have matters well under control until HiWell a trailer most of the way came with a rush to make1 a strong but futile bid
