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NQ.W FOR THE CLARK HANDICAP. Splendid Field in Sight for Next Important Race at Churchill Downs. Louisville, Ky.. May 15. — Second only in interest io the Kentucky Derby, which was decided Saturday. is the historic Clark Handicap, which has as extended a history as the Derby. This event will I*- decided next Saturday, Hay 20. Ip to 1303 it was. like the Derby, strictly a race for three year olds. Then a handicap was substituted for the stakes mid it was made u race for three year olds and over, as i: is today. It was a two-mile race from ils first running in 1873 up to and including 1880. Then it was changed to a mile and a quarter and was so run until 1800, when it was reduced to a mile ami an eighth. It became a mile and a sixteenth race ia 1902 and has since continued so. VolUgUer. a son of Vandal, won the first Clark Stakes, beating II. I. MeGratbs famous colt, Calvin. In 1870 Capt. .1. T. Williams won it with Creedmoor, and the Derby winner of that year. Vagrant, finished second. In 1877 MeWhirter won the lie. defeating the unfed Vera Cruz. MeWhirter that day ran the two miles in 3:301, Which standi as a record for flic race at two miles. In lsjs I.eveler won it. Day Star, the Derby winner of that season, and Solicitor ran a dead heat for the place. In IsT.l Palsetto was the victor. In 1880 Kiukcad was tin winner. In ISM. when the distance was reduced to a mile and a smarter, Hindoo won. He became then the first don! winner of the Derby and the Clark Stakes. Bunn j mi ih took the race in iss-j ami u,, Derby winner of that season. A|hpI1o. was third. In 1883 the winner was Ascender and Buchanan, the Derby winner of iss-l. likewise captured it. thus equaling Hindoos record as the winner of these two races. Beraaa won it in 1883. with the mighty Troubadour second. The Derby winner of that sea-on. Joe Cotton, was third. nine Wins was the winner in 1N.NG and in 1S.N7 Jim Gore was first. Gallifet landed in front in lsss. In 188B Spokane was first, defeating Proctor Knott, as in the Derby. In 1880 Bile* won both the Derby and the Clark Stakes. In 1801 the race was won by iii.".;i Tariff, .iiui in iwii Azm. another Derby victor, won the stakes. The Mu.000 American Derby winner. Boundless, won it in 1803. Chant, also a Derby winner, captured it in 1804. In 1805 Halina. another winner of the Derby, won it. This was the last time that the vent was run at a mile and a smarter. Its record at this distance is 2:08] and is held by Dersan. In 1806 it was first won at a mile and an eighth by Ben BUer, which had been nosed out bv Den Urusli in tl.e Di rh. of til lit year. In 1*98 llandil won Ix.h races .imT in 1vifl Corslnc was the winner. In p.iim Lieutenant Cihson. also a Derby winner, took tin Clark, and His Eminence, likewise a Derby winner. won if In lfMM. That was the last time the race was run for three -ysar-olds exclusively and also at a mile and an eighth. The record at this distance, 1:34, is held by Lieutenant Gibson; The winners, including and since 1002, follow: Death. Loves Labor. Colonial Girl, Datts. Hyperion IL. Tlie Minks. Polly Prim, Miami. Kinds Daughter, Miamis mil- and a sixteenth in l:43i is the fastest time recorded for the race under its latest condi t ions. This i vent this season probably will bring about the first meet in?; of the year between tlie sensational horses. Ocean Bound, Bonnie Kelso, countless .-lid Dolls, which will make it a race of great interest. Bonnie Kelso and Countless are both unbeaten in Kentucky this season. Dolls comes to the i:o . wilh liie record of baring been one of the greatesl four year elds iu training at Juarez. Ocean Bounds record K well known. These horses are all tit and will be ready next Saturday lor the greatesl effi i "I of their careers. They will he ridden by the best jockeys available and their various supporters piob ably will make it one of the greatesl speculative races of the season. Other noted ellgibles include lollie Levy. Kaiintleroy. Boots Hoola. Joe Morris. Cherryoiii. Kings Daughter, Winter green, Governor Cray and Bound the World. The weights will be i nnounced next Wednesday by Bdward Jasper, act i nir secretary of the New Louisville Jockey Club The rait haa never had as brilliant a liehl as is promised this spring. There arc more high-class horses in this event ibis season than have heretofore gathered nosier color* in a similar race in Ken tncky. »n paper if is one of the most open races ever earded in Kentucky.
