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I I ■ 1 AMBROSE IN THE LIMELIGHT ♦ Veteran Rider Has Big Day at Churchill Downs Course. ♦ Prince Atheling Gamely Outstays Spanish Play by Nose in Henry Clay Hotel Handicap. • LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 13.— The riding of the veteran Eddie Ambrose and victory of John Marschs Prince Atheling in a spectacular finish with Spanish Play in the Henry Clay Hotel Handicap, were among the high lights of todays racing at Churchill Downs. Other features enjoyed by the large crowd that had no fear of the reputed ill-luck influence or jinx that attaches itself to Friday the thirteenth, included the winning of many choices and a double score for the . , colors of Mrs. M. B. Price. Five started in the Henry Clay Hotel Handicap, and while Street Singer, Plucky Play and Cousin Jo were outrun by Prince Atheling and Spanish Play, the stretch duel between the latter two made the contest one of the most interesting of the warm sunny afternoon. ; After Street Singer had shown the way t j out of the chute, C. E. Allen sent Prince i j Atheling to the front along the rail and I proceeded to rate him under steady restraint I as C. Landolt employed like tactics with j Spanish Play. Approaching the stretch, j where Street Singer and Spanish Play went ! wide, Prince Atheling stole into a long lead, j a move by Allen that probably won the race I for the five-year-old son of Atheling II. j • When straightened out in the stretch, Spanish Play, burdened with top weight of 119 pounds, gamely and encouragingly went about the task of attempting to overtake the leader and, while he just failed to wear him down, his effort was a remarkable one. At the finish Prince Athelings lead had dwindled to a head, while Spanish Play led Street Singer by eight lengths. Prince Atheling carried his import of 108 pounds over the distance in 1:37, the fastest time of the meeting. He was second choice to Spanish Play, 52 to 100 favorite, and the only one of four odds-on choices to suffer defeat. Gloritone, juvenile daughter of The Porter and Slow and Easy, completed a double for the colors of Mrs. M. B. Price, New Orleans owner, when she registered decisively over St. Jessica, Whirling and six others of her age and sex in the five-eighths Paints-ville Purse, which was third on the program. Eddie Ambrose, who opened the duo-win with Silverdale, also had the mount on Gloritone. From a rather sluggish start, the Price filly was not long at gaining a contending place, but in the run to the turn forced St. Jessica, Lonesome Glory and Lilac Bloom into a bad jam. After swinging into the stretch on the outside of Olive Sabath, Little Gertie and Whirling, the winner soon pulled away from St. Jessica, which ruled favorite. Although she quit badly after a half-mile, Whirling was good enough to outstay the others for third honors. Ambrose rode his third winner in consecutive races when he hustled the Three Ds Stock Farms Trinchera to victory over La Salle and Madwind in a driving finish in the Silver Hills Purse. This three-quarters sprint preceded the feature, and was run as the fourth race. Trinchera had such solid backing that he was held at less than even money, and his victory marked the third for favorites, all at odds-on. After setting the early pace, Trinchera gamely withstood first Madwind and then La Salle in a bristling stretch drive, and the finish found him with only a neck over the Shandon Farm gelding, which led Madwind by a similar margin. Flashing Thru, the Dixiana home-bred juvenile, accounted for his second purse when he easily defeated eleven others over five furlongs in the Newcastle Claiming Purse, which was first among the seven races. The victor, one of the shortest priced favorites of the day, experienced no trouble winning and, after setting his own pace, completed the distance going easily and with a two lengths advantage over Coast Patrol. The latter was a factor throughout, while Sweet Flag, which saved third, came from a good distance back and on the extreme outside in the last quarter mile. After keeping in closest attendance of the winner for three-eighths, Hildur Rock tired badly and Bright Emblem beat him out of fourth money. Although on his worst behavior at the post, where he milled around for many minutes, Silverdale, Mrs. M. B. Prices veteran, had too much speed for Tantivy, Back Log and three others in the second race, and romped to one of the most easily attained victories of his career. Eacked almost to the exclusion of his rivals, Silverdale pleased his backers when he sprinted into a long lead before going a quarter, and when running the final half-mile, easily retained a commanding advantage. In the last eighth Tantivy shook off the rather stubborn Back Log. Silverdale was ridden by E. Ambrose, and ran the distance in 1:1116, with 119 pounds up. ♦
