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PREPARATIONS AT TIJUANA I Track Receiving New Top Dressing Mutuel Plant Enlarged Horses Arriving. SAN DIEGO, Cal October 30. Despite the fact that Tijuanas winter meeting commencing Thanksgiving Day is a month off, the plant already has taken on a busy appearance. President James W. Coffroth lias made several improvements for the benefit of both the public and the. horsemen and by the time the first bugle is sounded all will have been completed. Five inches of top dressing will be added to the track around the entire circuit. A soil lias been discovered in Mexico which, it" is. .said, drys out unusually fast. When the track, is completed it will be one of the fastest In the west and -it is likely that many of the present .track .records will be shattered. I A large force of men is busily at work enlarging the mutuel plant and eighty feet has been added to the betting pavilion. This will give the public ample space, the necessity of which was noticeable last year. More machines will be added to those already installed, which will bring the total number up to twenty-five. Jack Atkin, who is at the present time making a tour of the eastern and western tracks, has wired some glowing reports of the success he hatf met with procuring horses for Tijuana. A number of well-known riders have expressed their intention of wintering in California and these, jockeys will be seen in the saddle at the Mexican track. The liberal array of stakes have opened up the eyes of the racing world -to the fact that Tijuana must be reckoned with as one of the largest winter racing grounds of the present day; 0,000, which is the guaranteed amount of the Coffroth Handicap, is one of the largest purses ever offered by a winter racing association. Adding glory to the Tijuana Jockey Clubs glittering array of stakes are the U. S. Grant Hotel Handicap and the Baja California Handicap, each wonth 0,000, npt to nention the many ,000, :.500 and. ,000 features which are down , for, decision. ,uj.;i tarjr Figuring:tliiiH vearlyo bfr4catchefc the, first worm many stables have already arrived at Tijuana and are now stabled at the course. Vm. "Red" Walker, who met with much success at the past Tijuana meeting, arrived yesterday with a carload of ten useful horses. They embraced Sedan, Ncp-pcrlian, Thos. Fp McMahon, Weinlandj Honolulu, Cork, P. Moody, Don Dodge and; two youngsters, which lie lias named John Lake and Barbara. In old Don Dodge Walker has u horse whose consistency won him many admirers last winter among the San Diego racing public. The horses belonging to William Weant are en route to Tijuana and should arrive tomorrow. He is bringing twenty-three runners in two shipments. Some of the horses said to be in his care are Top o th Morning, Dick Williams, Ten Can, Diomed, Bars and Stars, Anzac, Mary Reigel, Eulah F., Baby Cal, Bon Otis; Capon; Ellison, Key Mar, Premium. Sir Oliver. Noynim, Stelcllff and Iolite. Ed Soule, the California!! who has a fondness for Tijuana and its incomparable winter climate, will race a small but select string of high-class, horses at Coffrotlis track. He recently purchased the speedy three-year-old filly EdWlna from the Oneck Stable for a goodly sum. Soule has obtained the contract for the winter on the services of jockey Laverne Fator and will bring him west within the next ten days. C. B. Irwin, the Cheyenne, Wyp.. horseman, has wired that he is shipping two carloads of horses here. His thoroughbreds include Myrtle A., Jake Schas, Corncutter, Riposta, Yukon, Hickory Nut, Sarasota, Little Spider, Bit of Blarney, Tempy Duncan, Crispie and others. These horses have been" freshened up on Irwins farm and he should enjoy a fair measure of success with them. Last winter Irwin reaped a harvest, as he . enjoyed the distinction of heading the list of winning owners. Jockey Pablo Martinez, the Mexican pilot, will again do the stables riding. , At least 200 bush horses, which have been racing over the Inter-Mountain circuit, are here. These runners will be useful in the cheaper races and among them are several speedy campaigners that will have to be reckoned with even when they face the topnotchers.
