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. SHIPPING TO AGUA CALIENTE Horsemen Already Crossing Border With Stable3 for the Meeting Scheduled to Begin On May 8. AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, April 10. While the heavy shipments of thoroughbreds for the Agua Caliente racing, which open3 May 8, will not begin arriving for at least two weeks, certain owners who desire to be on the ground early continue to send their horse3 across the border daily. The West Coast Stable, trained by L. O. "Slim" Lee, shipping from Santa Anita, was stabled at the local track today. There are eleven In the lot Most of these are two-year-olds, sons and daughters of the sires Sunspero and Sweeping Away, in service at the San Clemente Farm of Ham Cotton. The juveniles in the string are Jolito, Murran Jo, Veracidad, Dis-tar, Fumar, Testa, Andar and Penates. The older horses are Bud Broom, Right Rank and Tynemouth. Two other juveniles will be sent here to Lee. These are Alston and Wigtown, recently purchased from J. P. Atkin of tho Pasadena Stable by H. H. Cross, owner of tho Tranquillity Farm. Negotiations are pending for the purchase of a third from Atkin. M. W. Buck, well known western horseman, who is representing the Agua Caliente Turf Club at Arlington Downs, Texas, advised today that he would have assembled about 100 runners there for shipment to Agua Caliente within the next two weeks.
