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CLANG RETURNING TO RACING John F. Clark, Jr., Decides to Ship to the Fair Grounds. Speedy Sprinter to Start Comeback Trail at Crescent City Noted for Brilliant Speed. NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 14. The New Orleans-owned Clang, holder of two. worlds track records and regarded as one of the fastest thoroughbreds of modern times, will be shipped to the Fair Grounds Jan. 1, and be returned to racing soon afterwards. This was the statement of John J. Clark, Jr., Clangs owner, on arrival from Churchill Downs, with three juveniles, Zacabox, Upsy and Cynical, which will be campaigned from the start of the meeting, Thanksgiving Day, to be joined later by the six-year-old gelded son of Stimulus, now standing training on a trotting track in Lexington. "Clang is going soundly again at Lexington," said Clark. "He is being prepped by the famous trotting horseman, Hunter C. Moody, who makes a business of bringing back ailing horses. Clang has been at Lexington, working regularly since September 1, and Moody informs me he believes the horse may show some of his old time form when returned, to the turf next year." The story of Clang is well known. After a meteoric rise from his juvenile campaign, started here in 1934, he equalled a twenty-nine year old world record of Roseben when he sped seven furlongs in 1:22 at Arlington Park. Showing that it was no fluke later in the year, in a match race with Myrtle-wood at Coney Island, Clang set up a new six furlongs standard, winning in 1:09. Myrtlewood, another fleet one that season, had beaten Clang in a previous duel, but Clang made plenty amends in the second contest. Clang has been away from the races since the 0,000 Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs two years ago. Bowing a tendon he was taken out of training and while there was much talk from time to time of the horse making a comeback, it was riot until recently that it was definitely decided to bring Clang baclc to racing.
