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CALIENTE TO OPEN NOV. 24 Lou Anger Announces Abbreviated Schedule, With Racing on Sundays Only After Santa Anita Inaugural. LOS ANGELES, Calif., Oct. 12. Lou Anger today announced that all legal obstacles having been removed, he and his associates will open the Agua Caliente race track on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, for a long winter meeting. However, the Mexican border course will operate on an abbreviated schedule. The first week racing will be conducted four days, but thereafter the sport will be presented only on Saturdays and Sundays, until Santa Anita Park opens, when the Caliente track will function on Sundays only. Minimum purses of 00 will be offered, and two-year-olds, barred from racing in California until May 1, will be accorded an opportunity to try their wares at the Sunday-only sport. The track will be open to receive horses beginning November 1. The export tax on horses and equipment shipped out of Mexico has been removed, Anger announced. The grandstand, clubhouse, barns and other buildings at the border track, closed since last spring, when Gene Normile concluded his meeting on the ground that the proper class of thoroughbreds was not available to warrant continuing the sport, are being repainted and otherwise brought into a state of repaii-, it was reported. The track will enjoy a special privilege of operating both pari-mutuels and books at the track, this being necessary owing to President Cardenas blanket ukase against gambling. Normile recently stated that he still holds title to the race track property, and that he will contest Angers move in the courts of Mexico. The Tijuana CROM, ruling labor faction, is understood to have engineered a transfer of the right to race, through the local lower courts, to enable Anger and his associates to take over control. George W. Schilling, at present presiding steward at Bay Meadows, will serve in a like capacity at Caliente, Anger announced. Albertanti has been appointed publicity agent. Albertanti was director of public relations for Hollywood Park during the summer meeting at the Inglewood track.
