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CLARK HANDICAP WEIGHTS LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 22 Plight and Fiji, last years winners of the Texas Derby at Arlington Downs and Latonia Derby at Latonia, may be the top-weighted starters in the sixty-first Clark Handicap of ,500 added, Saturdays opening day stake attraction at Churchill Downs. According to announcement of heights, as made late today by handicapper-secretary William H. Shelley, they are assigned imposts of 115 and 112 pounds, respectively. Greater weights of 123 and 122 pounds were announced for Mr. Khayyam and Head Play, but as they will not start, Plight and Fiji, both probable starters, look like the top weights. Bazaar, also in the doubtful starter class, drew 114 pounds allotment. Open for three-year-olds and upward, the Clark closed February 11 with sixty nominations. Other probable participants in Saturdays renewal over a mile and one-sixteenth, with weights, include: Safe and Sound, 106; Blackbirder, 105; Whiskolo, 106; South Gallant, 102; Sazerac, 109; Vitamin B., 106; Chazar, 109; Brustigert, 108; Frank Ormont, 109; Some Bull, 102; Black Hat, 102; and others.
