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Novice Rider Hugh Clark Astride Initial Winner Guides Our Boss to Nose Score In Opening Race at Detroit Oval FAIR GROUNDS, Detroit, Mich., June 10. —Novice rider Hugh Clark, a 20 -year-old lad from Clina, Term., scored his first first victory by a narrow margin when he had J. A. Kinard Jr.s Our Boss up to eke out a nose verdict over Vincent Ciceros Ecomodate at the end of the six-furlong first race. Only another nose back in what was nearly a triple deadlock E. D. Talberts Fanny Mac was third in the field of eight. The winner was timed in 1:1#% and returned 6.10. The Detroit Racing Association, following its practice, presented Clark with a 00 prize. Ecomodate had speed to open up a clear early lead but Fannie Mac was hustled up on the inside to join him and the pair raced as a team into the stretch and before Goodforme. The latter weakened slightly under a drive while the eventual winner, who had been unable to match the early speed of the leaders, was taken to the outside on the turn. Here, clear of the others, the son of Strolling Player displayed keen speed to move up with a rush to gain the narrow verdict. Ecomodate and Fannie Mac continued their stiff duel in close alignment right to the wire without giving or taking ground to finish on almost equal terms. Two graduates of the 1945 Detroit novice jockey school are now leading riders at major race tracks — Terry Sullivan setting the pace here, while Jack Licausi tops the Suffolk Downs jockey list. Overcast skies held a threat of rain but did not deter a Monday crowd estimated at 11,000 from turning out to witness the eight-race card. Divisions of the same race conditions were offered in the fourth and fifth races, combination affairs, titled the Red-ford and the Wolverine respectively and each of these attracted eight shifty sprinters. The eighth race at one and one-sixteenth miles was the only contest over a distance of ground.
