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MENIFEE IN TRIUMPH ♦ Beats Supremus and King Nadi in Lexingtons Main Race. Drop in Temperature and Light Bain Lowers Attendance — Close Finishes. ♦ LEXINGTON, Ky., April 27.— A good band of three-year-olds, that included Kentucky Derby eligibles, met in todays feature race Association course and it at the Kentucky resulted in a victory for Menifee over Supremus, with King Nadi in third place. The Futurity Course and the race was over Menifee at all times showed superiority and led the others from the start. He was well under restraint at the end. though for a brief period in the stretch he had to be hustled when King Nadi was making a determined effort to overhaul him. King Nadi, which was regarded last year with the best, raced for-wardly but near the end began tiring as if a trifle short. Supremus, which had been far back during the earlier period, but which had saved considerable ground at the stretch turn, got up to outstay King Nadi. Of the other starters Brown Sugar raced well. Blind rode him wide entailing a loss of ground, but he finished going determinedly. The speedy Reputation kept well up with the leaders until the last eighth of the race, when he began giving way. Threatening weather which finally gave way to light rain, accompanied by a drop in temperature, caused the attendance to be below the usual standard here. But still the crowd was of goodly proportions and the spectators displayed keen enthusiasm over the close finishes that marked the afternoons sport. The offering as a whole was a fairly good one, considering the off-day aspect and the sport was of a wholesome variety. Several of the finishes being exceedingly spectacular and hard fought HOY A SURPRISE. Tn the fourth race, came a surprise when Hoy was the winner after a hard duel with Red Seth and Elusive. His success was a lucky one and probably due mainly to his ability to save ground at the stretch turn, where Red Seth and Klusive, the leaders, had gone wide. Red Seth was the leader from the start, but Klusive was in stern pursuit and it looked as if the pair would fight it out to the finish, but Hoy managed to slip by the pair after he had saved ground and straightened into the stretch. Tteht and Richelieu, both considered as strong contendeis before the race, never figured extensively in the result. The two-year-old race in which eleven fillies started at half a mile, furnished a spirited finish with Desha Breckinridges PegRy Bledsoe and J. N. Camdens Cornelian battling it out in strenuous style and coming to the finish inches apart, the first mentioned in the van. Pool got her away t t prominently and succeeded in wresting a slight lead at once. She benefited by keep-; i ing close to the inner rail. Cornelian from i an outer position challenged stoutly when straightened in the stretch and continued to hold o;i determinedly to the end. Helens Babe, representing Hal Price Headley, raced forward ly until the last sixteenth where she began dropping out of it, but was good enough to beat home the others. DOUBLE FOR WILLIAMS BROS. In the opening contest Quoin earned the first purse of the Kentucky season for Wil- j Hams Brothers when he wore down Tendei i j Seth to win handily near the end. The race was at a mile and seventy yards and Punshon | on Tender Seth pulled over soon after the ■ start causing a jam from which Foxmore was the principal sufferer. Punshon was sus- I pended for five days for his rough driving. Tickler was given considerable attention in the race but he fell back after going half a mile only to come again during the stretch racing but missed getting a portion of the purse. The popular Sweetheart, making her initial start of the year, scored in the third race, but she gave her supporters an anxious period on account of the listless riding she received from Vuillemot. The litter kept her under hard restraint until rounding into the stretch where he began ursine her and she responded with alacrity and came from far back to ultimately dispose of the fast-going Cherokee. The latter appeared a winner an eighth out, where he had an undisputed lead, but Sweetheart overhauled him in the last twenty yards. Happy Top, hard urged, just managed to outstay Buck for I i third place. Williams Brothers made it a double for the afternoon when Supporter raced away from a well regarded band of youngsters that started In the sixth race. Supporter never left the result in doubt for he moved into a long lead promptly and he won well under restraint during the last eighth. Billy Witt, one of the outsiders, was closest to him at the end, with Lucent just up in time to finish third. | k
