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CLARK HANDICAP TO BE RUN SATURDAY. Is Churchill Downs Most I:.:rortant Race Next to the Kentucky Derby. By C. A. l.irginl. l.ouisvill-. Ky.. May 1C— The Ink llamli.ap. at one mile and a sixteenth, for three year-OUH and over, is down for decision at Churchill Downs m-xt Saturday. It is. m xt to the Kentucky Derby, the moot important fixture of the anrfaag meeting. !l is contemporaneous ajrith the Derby, having bad its initial raamfaag in the year 1870, The race originally was the Clark Stakes, a renewal of the Derby at the greater distance of two niil-s. In 18M it was reduced to a mile and a aanufasr. Twenty-two years hater, in VM2, it was discontinued as a race for three year-olds exclusively, the •reseat fixture, the Clark Handicap, for three-year-olds aad over taking its place. The race was named in honor of Cat, hf. Lewis Clark, founder of the l.ouisviln- Jockey Club, who at! ltd as presiding Jadge up to the time of his death in 1S9!». Tie- BOgea of turf history have been adorned by winners of the Clark Handicap. Its list of win u rs embraces such names as Falsetto. Hindoo, Kunnymede, Spokane. Riley, lioundless. Plaudit. Ornament and others. In the past two years V. .1. Webera horse Badge scored in the stake. This horses name does not appear in this seasons list of nominees, due to a mistake on tin-part of trainer Kay Openm in not entering him. Practically all of the handicap horses now in training in Kentucky are eligible to the race, which has an added money value of L.tMKl. Ausaag the better known ones are Uoamir. Old Uoseluul, Pit Jr.. Colonel Vennie. Kmhroidery. Skeptic. Koyal II., Hoots. Bd Crump. Badge, Star Hawk. Ticket. Midway. Harry Kelly, Berlin and Water Witch. As was natural to expect. baanVrapper J. B. Campbell holds Koamer in the most esteem, and bus unsigned the son of Knight Krrant — Hose Tree IL. top aright. Koamer is now six years eld and is the properly of Andrew Miller, of New fork, who also owns Tkket, which ran second in this years Kentucky Derby. Last spring in Kentucky Boaener was not at bis best, but this year trainer Jack Ooldsborough de •hires he is better than he ever was. His splendid victory last Saturday over Old Rosebud and others, when he almost equalled the track record for a mile and a sixteenth, gave ample proof of this. Horsemen here are predicting that if the horse maintains his present good form, be will sweep everything before him on the eastern tracks next summer.
