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NEW AGUA CALIENTE TRACK ♦ Word Comes that Grading of Course Already Under Way. • Plans Mads to Rush Work In Order to Com. plete Plant in Time for Opening JNext Christmas. » From Agua Caliente, Baja California. Mexico, comes word that actual construction of the racing plant of the newly formed Agua Caliente Jockey Club is now under way. Fernando Rodriquez, who secured the contract for building the first unit of fifteen concrete stables, each to .house twenty-five thoroughbreds, has started grading for these buildings. This unit will be at the south side of tho course, almost directly opposite the middle of the back stretch. Contractor Rodriquez. who is a brother of the governor of Baja California, Aberardo Rodriquez, is responsible for the building of a goodly percentage of Agua Caliente. He also built the Agua Caliente Kennel Club plant, which is conceded to be one of the most beautiful and costly in the world. Wirt G. Bowman, president of the company, has asked for bids for grading between four and five hundred thousand cubic yards on the locations of the grandstand, club house and track, and the moment bids are accepted the work will be rushed to completion. This, of course, settles once and for all any faint remaining doubt that might have existed that the Agua Caliente Jockey Club is an actuality and that the old Tijuana track has definitely passed into the pages of history. Wayne D. McAllister, the architect who conceived and designed the beauties of Agua Caliente, is rushing to completion the specifications of the steel to be used in the construction of the grandstand. The question of securing the steel is the o-o thing that might have caused a stumbling block to the plans of the new club to have the course ready for a Christmas Day opening. McAllister has removed this obstacle by agreeing to deliver the steel specifications at a very near date. President Bowman has also announced that bids will be opened within ten days for an additional unit of fifteen stables. The stables are the last word in the construction of thoroughbred barns. When general manager Jim Crofton and architect McAllister recently journeyed East to inspect the Chicago and Atlantic Coast race tracks, they garnered in their fund of information every possible improvement that will go to making the new race course one of the finest, if not the largest, in the land.
