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FUTURE PLANS FOR CALIENTE Increased Pjrogram Depends Upon Exposition at San Diego. Race Program Scheduled for Decoration Day Girl Riders to Compete Against Male Rivals. AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, May 27. Agua Caliente, after forty-four days of racing during the present year, was preparing to take a new lease on life Sunday. The meeting, which will continue indefinitely, will be bolstered by several carloads of horses due to arrive from Tanforan today, and the animals which have been winning races consistently at the Lower California track will likely meet with some stiff opposition in future contests. Among the strong Tanforan campaigners headed southward from the Marchbank track are R. D. Powers, king pin of California sprinters; Bon Amour, another stouthearted home-bred; Little Son, one of the best equines ever bred at Baron Longs Vie-jas Ranch; Mumsie, The Trimuvir and Jane Hastings, strong trio from the stable of Leon Gordon, Hollywood celebrity. Take It Easy, Flushing By and Mr. Conard, classy two-year-olds; The Bailiff, a strong handicap performer; His Way, distance runner of note, and many others. Upon the coming weeks racing at Agua Caliente will depend the policy to be followed during the summer. The Pacific International Exposition at San Diego gets under way Wednesday, and upon the popularity of that show hinges the future of the border track. Should the Fair prove a strong attraction and the crowds show a liking for the turf sport, racing may be conducted at Agua Caliente five or six days a week; should the response from the tourists be fairly good, racing will be held four days a week, but regardless of the success of the Exposition, racing will be held at Agua Caliente on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays during the summer months. A race program will be run off at Agua Caliente on Thursday, Memorial Day, making four days of the sport at the track during the coming week. The feature for the holiday is the Decoration Day Handicap, at one mile and entries close Tuesday, with weights being announced Wednesday. Stars of Tanforan and Caliente racing will clash in the event, with Bon Amour, the Meadow-brook Stable star, looming as the probable favorite. The Agua Caliente management is preparing a novelty to be staged in the near future. It is an event which will bring girl jockeys into action against regular riders. So well did the ladies acquit themselves in the Coronado, La Jolla and Burlingame Town Plates, that a large number of turf followers have written the Agua Caliente management, suggesting that they be pitted against regular jockeys in actual competition and the event will be staged one week from Sunday. Miss Hilda Hauser, Encinitas beauty operator, who won all three ladies races held on the coast this season, and who is one of the first American women, to apply for a regular jockeys license, will be one of the riders to compete against the boys while Daisy Parsons, Donna Cowan, and Peggy Childs are others that may accept mounts. .
