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CLARK HANDICAP RICH PRIZE Old Louisville Fixture to Feature Opening Day at Downs. List of Winners Includes Names of the Great Crack Horses to Strive for Purse. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 10. The Clark Handicap, run until 1901 as the Clark Stakes and a feature as old as the Kentucky Derby and the Churchill Downs track itself, once more becomes one of the most coveted prizes on the spring racing calendar. It will be run for the sixty-third time at the local Downs on the first day of the spring meeting, May 1, and, with the purse increased to its peak value of 0,000 added, it should attract one of the best fields in its long and meritorious history. The Clark Handicap, which has almost, become synonymous with the beginning of spring racing in Louisville, is for three-year-olds and over and since 1927 has been decided over a mile and a sixteenth. Nominations for it closed on February 15 with forty-five nominations and listed among them are many of the foremost racers in America. Among the greats and near greats of the turf whose names are inscribed among winners of the Clark Handicap are Old Rosebud, Exterminator, Audacious, Chilhowee, Helens Babe, Jock and Osculator, and last year victory in the race, which then was worth only ,000 in added money, fell to Corinto, owned by Mrs. Emil Denemark. In 1934 Charles T. Fishers Esseff won the Clark and in doing so hung up the present track record of 1:44 for the mile and a sixteenth. THREE-YEAR-OLDS NAMED. Although three-year-old winners of the Clark are in a minority a number of them which also are eligible for the Derby have been named for this years running of the fixture. Among them are H. C. Apple-gates Chigre, Mrs. F. J. Navins Kermay, Milky Way Farms Military, the Rosedale Stables Lakeview and the Valdina Farms Petrose and Valted. Three-year-olds have won the Clark, but generally trainers with Derby h6pes pass up the opening day feature for the more attractive Blue Grass classic. However, there is a veritable galaxy of older stars named for the 0,000 race. Among the better known ones are Calumet Farms Count Morse, H. H. Cross Capt. Cal, I. J. Collins Paradisical, Greentree Stables Brush Hook and Memory Book, Valdina Farms Sir Emerson, C. V. Whitneys Tat-.terdemalion and Roustabout, Mose Gold-blatts Dnieper, Louise Hickmans Dusty Dawn, H. P. Headley"s Hollyrosd and Sparta, Milky Way Farms Sangreal, E. R. Bradleys Bow to Me, Shandon Farms Official and A. L. Fergusons Vitamin B. EXPECTED LARGE FIELD. Although it is too early to hazard a guess as to the number of starters in the Clark, it appears that it will attract one of the largest fields in its history and one of the best. The list of nominations for the stake follow: Chigre, Bow to Me, Banister, Gyral, Count Morse, Professor Paul, Cristate, Paradisical, Wha Hae, Capt. Cal, Sir Jim James, Vitamin B., Dnieper, Seventh Heaven, Brush Hook, Memory Book, Hollyrood, Sparta, Dusty Dawn, Boy Valet, Maeriel, Denise M., Sangreal, Fast Express, Military, Mars Shield, Infantry, Giant Killer, Indian Head, Silk Mask, Lakeview, Official, Le-mont, Bright Light, Wise Bessa, Navarre, Kermay, Gurkha, Scintillator, Sir Emerson, Petrose, Valted, Threadneedle, Grand Mani-tou, Tatterdemalion and Roustabout.
