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PROVES SUPERIORITY ♦ Cayuga Races Dinner Dance Intt Defeat at Louisville. * Accounts for Seelbach Handicap Over Muddy Churchill Downs Course — McGonigle Scores. • LOUISVILLE, Ky.. May 13.— Sprinters were given an opportunity to furnish the feature racing on the second days program at Churchill Downs this afternoon. Their chance came in the Seelbach Handicap, over three-quarter. The six starters raced over a muddy track, but weather conditions, which had been at their worst during the earlier part of the afternoon, were much improved as Theodore Muellers Cayuga raced home an easy winner. He won by three lengths from Dinner Dance, the leader by a big margin for almost five-eighths, while Rhinock took third place in a close finish with Fly Hawk. Beauregard and Boo, the entry of E. R. Bradley, completed the field and were fifth and sixth as named. Cayuga, ridden by Karl Horvath, negotiated the distance in 1:14%, which marked a good performance over the water soaked course. While the running failed to furnish much of a contest, there was thrills for the large crowd which braved the heavy showers, when the winner sprinted past Dinner Dance in the stretch. The latter had led by a big margin to the final quarter, but when Horvath called on the winner for his best, he quickly sprinted past the tiring Clark representative and drew away after taking the lead. Both Rhinock and Fly Hawk showed good speed in the stretch after being outrun in the early stages and, while they did not threaten the leaders, their spirited duel added an interesting feature. Dinner Dance was favorite, with the winner next in demand. PEABODY BUYS McGONIGLE. McGonigle, the three-year-old Omar Khayyam gelding which Stuyvesant Peabody purchased from C. H. Knebelkamp for a private consideration before the race, carried the Peabody colors to victory by the shortest of margins over W. H. Whitehouses Royal Julian and others in the fourth race, a high priced claiming affair. This was over one mile, with L. Jones getting the gelding up in the stretch in the very nick of time to nose out Royal Julian, after the latter had headed the field from the end of the opening three-eighths. All through the stretch only a short margin separated the winner and Royal Julian, but it was not until within a few strides of the finish that McGonigle managed to gain a small advantage. As they waged their stretch duel they gradually drew away from Buddy Basil, which ultimately finished in third place, and St. Ignatius and Amsterdam, which completed the field. Charles E. Gross, who developed McGonigle, and who trains the Knebelkamp Stable, saddled the gelding for the race, after which he was turned over to Robert McGarvey, Mr. Peabodys trainer. All Upset, from the Southland Stable of Charles Bachrach, of New Orleans, was the winner over a limit field of maiden juveniles in the opener. Running the four and a half furlongs in :55% over the muddy track, the winner led from the first eighth and, ridden out, won by a length and a half from Peace Boy, the latter racing in closest pursuit for the final three-eighths. Two lengths back Take Off raced into third place. The others raced to the finish in rather close alignment. The winner was a well back favorite. AGIXCOURT WINS. Agincourt, under the colors of R. B. and B. O. Hickman, local sportsman, proved an easy winner over Rose of Sharon, Chatter Black and six other three-year-old fillies in the second race. Racing into an easy lead shortly after the start the winner outsprintod the others easily for the entire three-quarters and won by four lengths from Rose of Sharon. A nose back of the latter. Chatter Black was third, well in advance of the others. Nifty Nitie, the favorite, after getting away slowly, was outrun. W. C. Goodloes Sada was best among eleven lowly plater three-year-olds in the third race over one mile and a sixteenth. C. McCrosson raced him from behind after keeping him well up to the final fiye-sixteenlh and he won by a length from Mary McClain, which headed the others until passed by tue Continued en sixteenth page. PROVES SUPERIORITY Continued from first page. winner in the final eighth. Third went to Illustrious. H. P. Headleys highly regarded and very capable Alcibiades, scored her second victory in as many starts when she easily defeated a small band of juvenile fillies in the sixth race, or Blossom Time Purse. W. Fronk sent the winner into the lead with a rush after reaching the stretch and, taking a long lead, she won eased up by six lengths. Full Tide was forced to wear down Wild Denise, the early pacemaker, in the stretch, while the others were outrun. Ruth Mayes, which came in for more than passing consideration in the betting and had F. Coltiletti in the saddle, failed to prove a factor, although Coltiletti rode her hard throughout.
