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1 AURORA TURF NOTES ] Apprentice E. Franklin, under contract to C. E. Davison, left for his home in Des Moines, Iowa., where his father is critically ill. Jockey Robert Morris Thursday morning was engaged to handle James Emerys Dolly 1 Val in Saturdays running of the Illinois Derby. A visitor at Aurora Thursday was Dave Wilson, agent for the Milky Way Farm Stable which is quartered at Lincoln Fields. The stable will be represented by Mountain | Ridge and possibly John One in the Derby. "Butsey" Hernandez leaves here Friday i night for Fairmount Park with nineteen I horses. The string is headed by the three-| year-old Prince Argo. Leigh Cotton, who will saddle the Green-| tree Stables Birthday and Gangplank in | the Derby Saturday, applied for a trainers license. Cotton said that Jack Richard probably would ride Gangplank in the Derby. Eddie Arcaro is coming here from the East to pilot Birthday. ] , D. Jefferson also applied for a trainers i license at Aurora. Horsemen at Aurora have been advised ! that scratch time Saturday morning will | i be 8 oclock instead of a half hour later. Mrs. A. M. Creechs Grey Streak left for I ! Detroit Wednesday night to fill an engage- ment in the Inaugural Handicap there Sat-! urday. I Trainer Otto Bagley is due here Friday and the following day will saddle the Blue I Ridge Farms Elooto in the Illinois Derby. Jockey Fred Faust, who will handle the horse, will come along from River Downs at the same time. Jockey Harold West leaves for Omaha Friday where he will report to his contract employer, T. N. Gaughan. The sixth race on Fridays program at I Aurora is named in honor of Max Sussman, popular field glass concessionaire at Chicago tracks. Sussman is presenting the winning owner of the event with an appropriately-engraved bronze statue of Haste and jockey Earl Sande. Word was received at Aurora that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wayne, turf devotees, have purchased a home on the gulf at Biloxi, Miss. The Waynes have transferred their yacht, Miss Eleanor, and the cruiser, Miss Dewey," to Biloxi. Mr. Wayne is contemplat-j ing the purchase of several horses to carry his colors at the 1938-39 Fair Grounds meeting. New Orleans. Trainer E. Vince, of the Mrs. F. Young stable, now being campaigned at Aurora, plans to ship his charges to Fairmount Park j Saturday. Magnolia Cash and Miss Ivory | from the Young string were both winners at the Fox Valley course during the final week of the meeting. • — —
