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AURORA READY FOR ILLINOIS INAUGURAL MONDAY M fland a New Electric "Tote" Tested and Plenty of Horses on Grounds Kentucky and Maryland Shipments Late This Week Will Complete Equine Colony- Wagering to Continue Until Horses Leave Gate AURORA, HI., April 26 President Robert S. Eddy, Jr., and racing secretary Dick Leigh of the Fox Valley Jockey Club, took a look around the premises of the spic and span Aurora track yesterday and decided they had enough horses to open with right now. There are 1,001 stalls at Aurora, counting out a few which will be used as tack rooms by the larger establishments in action, and there will be some 950 thoroughbreds on hand by next Monday, when the meeting starts. Had Aurora accommodations for 200 more, they would be taken. A full house in the stabling department is assured for the twenty-four day meeting which lasts until May 28, Illinois Derby Day. The Aurora record of 40,000 in purse money to be distributed is the main lure. Most of the thoroughbreds shipping here from the. Fair Grounds in New Orleans and from Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs have already arrived and have been working at Aurora for several days. Daily there are additions to the horse colony, many of these arriving by van direct from the farm, where they have rested for the long Chicago campaign. EXPECT SHIPMENTS. Shipments from Kentucky and Maryland will complete the roster by the end of the week. But Eddy and Leigh saw enough speedy thoroughbreds on hand yesterday to make up a crack field for the opening feature, the Fox Valley Inaugural Handicap at six furlongs. In A. G. Tarns barn were the veteran handicap star Bien Fait, and Faust, Bomber, Pelter and the "iron horse," Rushaway, all possibilities for the opening day feature. Auroras huge electric totalizator received its first workout Sunday. Eight days before the 1938 Chicago turf season opens at the Fox Valley track, its newest unit was ready to go. In the clubhouse alone the new betting ma chine will be equipped to handle up to 40,-000 a day, making the facilities more than adequate. On the main betting line, longest to be found at any track, the customers wont be able to buy tickets as fast as the iron mutuel men turn them out. Betting this year will extend up until the thoroughbreds leave the gate and not, as previously, when they enter the starting gate. Much of the last-minute rush will be removed. i
