He competed at tracks throughout California and at the newly built Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, California he rode the first-ever winner for trainer Noble Threewitt during the opening season in which he would also win important races such as the San Felipe Stakes and Santa Margarita Handicap,[1] the latter a race he would win three more times as a trainer.
[2] In 1946, Turk retired from riding and turned to training thoroughbreds as a career.
[3] For owner Louis R. Rowan, Clyde Turk trained Ruken to a win in the 1967 Santa Anita Derby, the most important event for three-year-olds in California.
[4] At Churchill Downs they then won the Stepping Stone Purse[5] which prompted bettors to make him their third choice for the Kentucky Derby in which he would finish eighth.
[7] He was living in Yuba City, California at the time of his death at age 87 in 1995.