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SOME CLARE HANDICAP ANTICIPATIONS. Indications Point to a Big Field in the Stake Race of Next Saturday. Louisville. Ky.. May 17. — The Derby Consolation of tomorrow will be a sort of trial race for the three-year-olds that are eligibles to the Clark Handicap, which is . down for decision next Saturday afternoon. When the Clark Handicap was a race exclusively for three-year-olds it served as a renewal of the Kentucky Derby, but from 1902, down to the present time, the race has been for three-year-olds and over. The following, if the track is fast, are regarded as nearly certain starters in the race of Saturday: H. P. Whitneys Itorrow, 8. T. C. McDowells Watorblossom, 4. J. Livingstons Royal II., 4. W. J. Webers Hodge, 5. Lew Marions Prince Hermis. 0. William Martins Waterbass. 5. May and Greeners Itayberry Caudle, 5. J. W. Schorrs Kd Crump, 4. K. L. Itaker and Co.s Dr. Carmen, 4. J. N. Camdens One Step, 4. I. E. Clarks Bank. 3. James Greenes Fleetabelle, 4. A. B. Hancocks Kmbroidery, 4. J. S. Hopkins and Co.s Hank ODay, 4. John M. Henry. Jr.s Lady Botha, 4. J. T. Looneys The Grader, 6. J. W. Parrishs Bulse, 3. J. S. Wards Dodge, 3. While this seems an enormous field it is not now thought that many of these will drop out, and it seems almost a certainty that the largest field of horses that have ever started in this event will face the barrier in the race next Saturday. The event has, since it become a handicap for three -year-olds and over, been won four times by a three-year-old. The first three-year-old to win it was Hyperion II. in MM, in 1909 Miami captured the stakes, while in 1911 Star Charter won the race. The last three-year-old to win the race was in 1914, when it fell to the good colt Belloc. Star Charter carried the most weight of any three-year-old that succeeded in winning the race, his impost being 105 pounds. The Clark Handicap has ,000 in added money and. since it has been a race for three -year-olds and over, it has always been at a mile and a sixteenth. The record in the event was made by Hodge, then a four-year-old, with 108 pounds up. he running the distance in 1:44 vs. The track record at the Downs, for this distance, is a fifth of a second faster, jointly held by Mary Davis and Starbottle. They, however, scored their marks in the autumn of the year and so Hodges record is the fastest mile and a sixteenth ever run there in the spring of the year. With fast traek conditions next Saturday, there is a chance for the winner to add another American record to the Downs course. At least good judges think some of the horses sure to race in the race are capable of scoring such a mark, if the track is as fast as it was on Derby Day. Now that there seems a certainty that Borrow. Roamer and Watorblossom are three sure starters in the Kentucky Handicap at Douglas Park on Saturday. June 3, the claim that has all along been made by Manager John Hachmeister, that the event this year will even throw in the shade the brilliant renewals in previous years of this great race, appears to be now a correct conclusion. There are many that have a strong fancy in the event for Koyal II., the winner of the Latonia Derby last year, and others, after Star Hawks brilliant race in the recent Kentucky Derby, hold to the opinion that the Eenglish-bred three-year-old will repeat in the event this year the triumph of Luke McLuke in the stake in 1914, if not too harshly weighted. Other good horses that are now being pointed for this event include Prince Hermis. Hodge, Celesta. Ed Crump, Bulsp, Water Witch, Brynlimah, Colonel Vennie. Barberry Candle, Hank PDay, Money Maker and Cosmic. The Kentucky Handicap is the only race for three-year-olds and over ever run south or west of the big New York tracks that has annually been worth more than 1,000 net to the winner.
