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CALIENTES FUTURE PLANS Racing on Only Two Days Weekly Possible Under Conditions. Mexican Track Stocked With Overabundance of Horses Splendid Track for Training Work. AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, April 15. Plans for the continuation of racing at the Agua Caliente Turf Club, during the current spring and summer meeting were explained to horsemen racing here in a statement released by president Eugene Normile. His statement was as follows: "Under present conditions we can only race two days weekly. If business warrants we will be more than glad to race three days weekly. However, we shall race all summer, Sundays only, during the Inglewood summer meeting, and Sundays and Mondays during the Del Mar meeting. "We ask the horsemen to cooperate with the management the same as they have always done in the past." The announcement by Normile met with the approval of all the horsemen racing here at this time, as they realize that early spring racing has always been slow to get under way. Horsemen here are glad to have a place to race their horses, as the majority of horsemen stabled here would have difficulty in finding races for their charges at the Northern California tracks, the condition books being for the higher class thoroughbreds. Even though they are able to race their horses for only two days a week, this gives them a chance to keep their charges training and also gives them a chance to make expenses while they are waiting for the summer tracks to open. OWNERS GOING EAST. It is highly probable that some of the owners now stabled liere will ship to other places, as many are planning on racing their stables in the East this summer, and they will be shipped out of here for the Eastern tracks so as to give their horses a chance to get acclimated in the colder weather on the Eastern tracks. Agua Caliente has an overabundance of horses at this time, and even though they should lose a hundred or so head, they would still have ample horses to run as high as five days a week. It is estimated at this time, that there are close to 900 head stabled here. The staff of dockers here report that every morning during the exercising period as many as a hundred horses are clocked going through their works, which shows that the horsemen are keeping their charges in condition for the coming summer season. Each week there are several new stables registered at the border course. For the most part they are horses that have been turned out during the winter months and are being brought back to racing condition for the forthcoming Inglewood and Del Mar meetings. Agua Caliente race track has always been a good racing strip to condition horses on and the climate is of the best for spring training. By conditioning their horses here, trainers are able to give their horses several races before the big summer season-of racing begins in Southern California.
