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ILLINOIS DERBY MAY DRAW FOURTEEN STARTERS Case Ace and Dead Calm Definitely Declared From Race Reaping Reward Heelfly Dellor Grey Count and andPossibly Possibly Military Among Prospective Starters Plans Made to Entertain Auroras Biggest Crowd AURORA HI May 19 The lack of complimentary nominations in the list of twenty threeyearolds named for the sixth running of the Illinois Derby at the Aurora race track on Saturday means that a large field will face starter Johnny Morrissey With only two of the twenty named Case Ace and Dead Calm definitely out the most likely field would seem to be from ten to fourteen starters The presence of Reaping Reward and Heelfly in the field may have scared some of the owners out and keep them from entering their thoroughbreds but those who nom ¬ inated their horses still are of the opinion that it is an open race One of those considered a doubtful starter E E Fogelsons Grey Count is now certain to appear in the race for racing secretary R A Leigh has re ¬ ceived word from trainer Tony Pelle teri that the gray horse will arrive arrivehere here Thursday morning Pelleteri recently sold Grey Count to the Dallas sportsman but still is in charge of his conditioning and recent works in Kentucky show he has lost none of his speed since he won the Louisiana Derby DerbyWINGED WINGED VICTORY OBTAIN OBTAINAnother Another that appears certain to start is C W Pershalls Winged Victory son of Victorian and Grief This fellow one of the most expensive of Mrs Ethel V Mars pur ¬ chases at the Saratoga sales in 1935 failed to live up to his price tag last year arid early this spring was sold by that establish ¬ ment to Pershall He has won one of his three starts this year Pershall shipped him to Aurora in advance of the opening here and the colts trials have been good of late Frank Grands Play Pal is another which has been showing good form since arriving at the Fox Valley track from Texas In looking for something of an outsider to upset the favored pair the Shandon Farm entry of Quincy and Burning Star which arrived at Washington Park Tuesday morn ¬ ing has come in for a great deal of consid ¬ eration Burning Stars Kentucky Derby effort when he finished eighth in a field of twenty showed that he was an underrated colt in that feature His only previous start was an easy win this year His stablemate Quincy has been racing in Maryland MarylandMUD MUD FAVORS DELLOR DELLORMore More rain and a muddy track would of course move up the Parrish colt Dellor by many pounds and he would be one of the favorites for the race With Chicagos most popular rider Basil James in the saddle Dellor is sure to have many backers backersWith With word that Case Ace had gone East for the Withers it appeared most likely that if Reaping Reward is to have a running mate in the Milky Way colors it will be Military which accompanied him in the Churchill Downs feature The other stable Continued on thirtieth page ILLINOIS DERBY MAY DRAW FOURTEEN STARTERS Continued from first page entry Murph has yet to face the barrier this season seasonGeneral General manager Robert S Eddy Jr an ¬ nounced that plans were being made to take care of the largest crowd that has visited the Aurora course since the management took over the track Twice this year the record has been broken and the getaway day gathering is almost certain to surpass even the opening day crowd
