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i TO OPEN THANKSGIVING DAY AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, June 16.— The Agua Caliente Jockey Club has made a sudden shift in its plans and President James N. Crofton is out with an official announcement that the winter meeting of 1931-32 will open on Thanksgiving day and run a hundred days or more, until the end of March, instead of starting on Christmas day, as was the case in the first two winter sessions. In making the change, Crofton issued the following statement: "I believe the great success that attended the first two winter sessions of the race track warrants us in extending the season. Opening on Thanksgiving day, and closing at the usual time— the end of March — we will have about a hundred days in all, racing as usual on every day except Monday. ♦
