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CHANCE FOR YOUNG RIDERS Aurora Meeting Annually Produces One Exceptional Youngster. Numerous Embryo Stars, Planning to Campaign During Initial Meeting of Illinois Season. AURORA, 111., April 21 One of the most interesting features of Auroras spring meeting is the boost it gives some jockey to national prominence. The Fox Valley tracks position as lead-off for the Chicago turf season has established it as the proving grounds for the riders. Some youngster annually develops from the Kane County oval as a threat for the national leadership. Last year it was Paul Ryan. Three years ago there was Paul Keester and before that Jack Westrope. The Aurora jockey colony for the meeting opening a week from Monday, May 2, will probably be the largest since the Cattarinich interests began their development of the plant into one of the most modern to be found anywhere. BREAK FOR RIDERS. The new rule raising the weight scale will bring back many of the better known older riders. But the list of promising apprentices and newcomers to the Illinois racing scene will be an imposing one. Last year young Paul Ryan, heralded as a comer from his New Orleans form, started j off the Illinois season by riding the very first winner on Auroras opening card. By rj the end of the meeting he held the lead by a good margin over Robert Lee Vedder present national leader; Sammy Roberts, and the veteran Joe Dyer. Ryan kept right on winning through the season and built himself a following as large as had been won by Westrope, Keester and James before him. A winning stable and an astute trainer are big helps to a jockey on his way up. So it might be well to keep an eye on the following this spring: Eddie Franklin, under contract to Clarence Davison, who developed both Keester and Arcaro, one of the nations top-notchers; Bobby Conley, who will handle the Benny Creech thoroughbreds; Will McCadden, "Butsey" Hernandez lightweight boy, and" Delphius Castille, whose contract is held by Ed Haughton. GAIN FAME. By May 28 one of these youngsters, or possibly even more unknown, will have a start on the Chicago championship and a following for the rest of the season. Joe Kramer, trainer for the Kendale Farm stable of E. K. Weil, was painfully injured at Aurora Wednesday morning by the fractious two-year-old filly, Almas Nugget. The youngster was being returned to the barn after schooling in the .paddock when she was frightened by a car. Kramer was dragged for some distance and suffered a badly sprained leg. He will be out of action for a week, during which time the Kendale thoroughbreds will be conditioned by Carl Schultz.
