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CLARK HANDICAP OUTLOOK Crack Field to Meet in Opening Feature of Downs Meeting Clyde Van Duscn Toro The ITut Martie Martieriynn riynn Chicago and Other Stars StarsAmong Among Starters LOUISVILLE Ky May C The fifty sixth running of the Clark Handicap which will feature the opening days program at Churchill Downs Saturday will in all proba ¬ bility bring together a field of ten of the best handicap horses to show in the West during the last several years At this writ ¬ ing there are eleven top notch thoroughbreds training for the one mile and onesixteenth race that carries an added value of 10000 Coming as it does a week before the run ¬ ning of the Kentucky Derby threeyearolds will hardly be included in the field But Clyde Van Dusen last years winner of the rich Kentucky classic will be a starter and he will match strides with E B McLeans gallant Toro which after almost a year on the shelf returned to competition during the Maryland spring season Both of these splen ¬ did thoroughbreds have been under colors with Clyde Van Dusen the more successful The son of Man o War won at his first ask ¬ ing on the last day of the Lexington meeting and trainer Van Dusen is going along with him with the Clark Handicap in view viewToro Toro arrived at the Downs from Maryland Monday He is training in the best of fashion and trainer Johnny Schorr has selected him in perference to Jock and Crossbones the other two eligibles After winning the Grainger Memorial a gallop of one mile and onequarter at the Downs last spring Toro was sent to New York for the renewal of the Suburban He came out of that race lame and after being returned to Louisville was sent to the McLean Farni The son of The Porter is as sound today as he was the day he won the American Derby according to his trainer and in that event it should be a horse race raceOthers Others that are being conditioned for the Clark are the Warm Stables The Nut Stuyvesant Peabodys Marlie Flynn winner of last years renewal W F Axtons Broom shot Mrs Emil Denemarks Blackwood Continued on twentieth page CLARK HANDICAP OUTLOOK Continued from first page F M Grabners Chicago Hal Price Head leys Pigeon Hole W H Whitehouscs Royal Julian H C Hatchs Montanaro Greentree Stables Stars and Bars and the Audley Farms Easter Stockings StockingsTommy Tommy Taylor who guides the destinies of the Warm Stable intended on sending Vic ¬ torian after the stake but the winner of the Agua Caliente Handicap after turning in several works since his arrival from Lower Colifornia went amiss and he decided to reserve the son of Whisk Broom II for late summer and fall fixtures With that deci ¬ sion he went ahead with The Nut and the winner of the 1929 Latonia Championship Stakes has been going great guns this spring He has run several miles in 1 44 and Taylor intends setting him down this week for a final trial trialStars Stars and Bars in his last effort at Lexing ¬ ton demonstrated that he has returned to his good winter form and when he led Sydney to the wire he appeared the best handicap horse to show during the Kentucky Associa ¬ tion meeting meetingAlthough Although unsuccessful in the Dixie Handi ¬ cap Montanaro has been working well over the Douglas Park course and trainer Lloyd Gentry believes the son of Ormont is as good today as he was when he defeated Misstep at Chicago last summer In that event he is to be reckoned with withAlthough Although named for the fixture Misstep will be among the missing The Upset colt is training satisfactory according to trainer Mose Lowenstein but he believes the race would be too hard for the colt in his first outing of the year He prefers to test him in an overnight event before sending him after such a prize prizeEaster Easter Stockings probably will be the lone representative of the gentler sex The good Oaks mare of other years has been used as a working companion for Gallant Knight and she is fit as hands can make her John Goode takes the same view about Rogers Caldwells Lady Broadcast as Lowenslein does about Misstep He prefers not to ask the fouryearold filly for such a strenuous effort in her first essay essayBlackwood Blackwood Pigeon Hole Chicago Broom shot Royal Julian and Martie Flynn are others that have turned in good miles and will be ready for the question However Broomshot is a very doubtful starter and she probably will be reserved for later racing
