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RETURN OF CLANG DOUBTFUL Clark Star May Not Withstand Rigors of Training Work. New Orleans Sportsman Has Promising Band of Youngsters for Crescent City Campaign However. NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 25. The "carnival" colors of John F. Clark, Jr., New Orleans businessman and sportsman, should be quite prominent at the Fair Grounds this winter. The purple, yellow and green colors came into national note some two years ago through the record-smashing performances of Clang, whose racing days have probably reached an end. Clang shattered one and equalled another worlds mark in his last year of competition, then went wrong. Clark attended the fall yearling sales at Lexington this year and was an active buyer of young stock and before the curtain was rung down on the sale, had acquired a total of eight youngsters. These he has quartered at Jefferson Park, along with Clang, Cynical, Upsy and Zacabox. The latter trio are two-year-olds which have not engaged in much racing thus far, but are to be seen frequently during the current Louisiana Jockey "Clubs meeting. The young horses purchased by the New Orleanian in Kentucky during the fall are all well bred and a promising looking band. They were broken at the farms of their previous owners before being led into the sales ring and Clark is personally supervising the conditioning of these newcomers for an early start in 1939. Although names for the eight yearlings have not yet been applied - for by owner Clark, their color, sex and breeding follow: Black filly, by Good Advice Grecian Beauty; bay filly, by Good Advice Peggy Atkins; chestnut filly, by Good Advice Easter Joy; chestnut filly, by Morvich Monotone; brown filly, by Okapi Swift Water; bay colt, by Byrd Wake Up; bay colt, by Charley O Bess McCann, and a bay filly by Michigan Boy Blue Violet. It is extremely doubtful that Clang, the speedy son of Stimulus, which was among the first horses ever owned by Clark, and incidentally the best to flaunt his silks, will stand training and return to the races. Clang has been away from competition for approximately two years and for a time this autumn it was believed that the double worlds record-holder had recovered sufficiently from a bowed tendon to return to action, but he since has been taken out of training.
