Word: crofton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KING CROFTON...
Four hours by car, an hour and a half by plane from Hollywood, Agua Caliente is the most elaborate pleasure resort in North America. It was organized three years ago, largely by 34-year-old James Crofton who had previously been a racetrack barker at the squalid little border town of Tijuana, three miles farther...
...cost of $2,500,000 by removing part of a mountain. The Annual Agua Caliente Handicap, which was to have been run on March 20 and for which the great Australian horse Pharlap was entered this year, is the richest-$150,000 -horse race in the world. James Nugent Crofton barked his announcement sadly last week. "There's no longer any use of our trying to kid ourselves. . . . Shortage of money has been apparent. . . . The announcement that the Mexican Government would increase taxes on gate receipts was the final blow. . . ." Agua Caliente's racing deficit since the season...