The following men attended the Shrine ceremonial at Louisville, KY, yesterday. B.F. Allen, W.F. Clark, Fred Bryant, Chester Adams, John Kincade, Allison Holland, H.M. Hubbard, William Metzger and Jeff T. Dunn.

MIGHTY LEONARDO II RUNS UNPLACED IN DERBY TRIAL RACE:

Bradley Entry Finishes First and Second, With Uncle Velo Third:

GENERAL HAIG REPEATS:

Meliora and Newel W. are Winners:
By J.A. Estes
They all flop sooner or later.
Caesar and his Brutus, Napoleon and his Wellington, Hindenburg and his Foch, are no more striking examples of the downfall of the mighty than is Leonardo II and his Black Servant.

F.R. Bradley's ebon son of Black Toney and Fadula outclassed and raced into ignominous defeat the Xalapa Farm's foremost candidate for the Kentucky Derby yesterday in the sixth running of the Blue Grass Stakes at the local track. Leonardo was outrun at every stage of the race, and finally,hopelessly beaten, dropped back into fourth place, the Bradley entry of Black Servant and Behave Yourself running first and second, and G.F. Baker's Uncle Velo coming in third. Muskallonge and Trust Official followed Leonardo II in.

The track was dry, but still very slow. The weather was fine and a great crowd had gathered to watch the running of the “Derby trial.” Leonardo II, was a 1 to 2 favorite in the mutuals, his wonderful performance of Monday, when, over a fast track, he had set a new track record for a mile and a sixteenth, and had held the world's record for that distance entirely at his mercy, having left the impression with thousands of racing fans that he was a super-horse and practically unbeatable. The Bradley entry received some attention, but the Simms colt appeared to be about a 1 to 3 or 1 to 4 favorite up until the last few minutes before the race, when the Bradley connections slipped down and “put up their roil.”

Black Servant Jumps into Lead:
At the post Black Servant was rather impatient, and it was some time before Starter Dade could lift the barrier. Black Servant had the rail position, with his running mate, Behave Yourself, second. Uncle Velo third. Muskallonce fourth. Leonard fifth and Trust Official on the extreme outside. When the tape was lifted the Bradley horses got off together in front and Leonardo immediately challenged Black Servant for the lead. The black colt, however, was not to be passed and withstood the mightiest efforts of the Xalapa Farm prodigy. As they turned into the back stretch Leonardo laid close up behind the Bradley horse all the way down the long drive, and made another great effort to overhaul the pacemaker as they rounded the turn and started up the hill. Black Servant shook him off again and after they had gone into the stretch Jocey Schuttinger let the Simms colt run as he pleased, heaving tried in vain to overhaul the fleet black colt from the “Lucky B” stable.

Jockey Newt Barrett drove out Black Servant in the final yards to win by a length from Behave Yourself, which had to be pushed hard to outstay Uncle Velo for second place. The Perkins gelding, with Earl Tool, up, made a game finish and was going well when he went under the wire legs than a length behind Behave Yourself.

The mile and an eighth was run in 1:54 3-5, good time considering the condition of the course.

Bradley Derby Stock Goes Up:
This race will probably add to the Kentucky Derby stock of the Bradley hose in the same measure that it detracts from Leonardo II popularity. Behave Yourself appeared to be as good as the winner and probably could have won had there been any cause for it. He lost some ground when going wide at the stretch. Uncle Velo is by no means disgraced.

Leonardo II while the public will still retain a measure of its confidence in him, has lost a great deal of his prestige. Still the Xalapa colt was running over a slow track yesterday, and if the Derby is run over a fast track, yesterday's defeat can hardly eclipse the wonderful performance Leonardo II, made on Monday when he reeled off a mile and a sixteenth in the remarkable time of 1:42 4-5. With a fast track and Leonardo II in good form on May 7, it will probably take a record performance to defeat the Simms colt.

The net value of the stakes to the winner was $3,170, to the second $350 and to the third $150. E.R. Bradley, however, took both first and second money.

Jack Hare, Jr., is Claimed:
Jack Hare, Jr., the shortest ? favority of the day, with the exeception of Leonardo II., lost to Marvin May in the final strides of the first race, a six furing dash for 3 year olds and up. The winner got off in the lead, and helf this position until Jack Hare Jr., paused him less than 50 yeards from the finish line. The Knebelkaump colt, however, responded gamely when Mooney laid the whip to him and barely managed to get his nose in front of the judges in advance of the favority. Napoo was third.

W.E. Applegate, owner of Jack Hare, Jr. lost his consistent old horse via the claiming route in this event, T.M. Botts, owner of Gadling, getting him for $4,000.

Another of J.O. and G.H. kerna's 3 year olds had an easy graduation in the second event, when Lucknow romped home in the van of a field of maiden colts and geldings. Commander McMeekin, the favority, placed for the third time in his three starts, with Hutchinson, entered with Shelbyville as the S.K. Nichols entry, running third.

Link “Boy” Pays Well:
Link Boy knocked the form followers loose in the third race, a mile claining event, when he set in hot pace during the last three quarters and outlasted Iw? In the stretch drive. This was the second winner of the day for Jockey J.D. Mooney. Hondo took third money, while Tom Norris, on odds-on favorite, ran next to last. Link Boy paid $31.50 on a $3 straight ticket, the longest of the day.

Ethel Gray was a lopheavy favority in the fourth race, the Lafayette Hotel handicap a mile an eighth run for 3 year olds and up. General Haig, with Earl Pool up, however, took a good lead after racing Centimeter into the ground and won from Ethel Gray by half a dozen lengths. Sands of Pleasure saved the short end of the puse. Centimeter tired badly and ran absolutely last.

Pool went across the finish line astride of another winner in the sixth event, when he sent Mellora into a long lead and won with a lost to spare. The Baker mare ran as if much the best of the outfit and was never in danger of being headed. Last ? easily beat out Mary Gaffney, an outsider in the betting for second place. British Maid, after running last all the way came in limping.

Mooney Rides Three Winners:
Newel W. scored the first win of the meeting for J.L. Knight when he nosed out Bond, favorite in the seventh. The Knight horse was far back for a great part of the journey and got up just in time to win by an eyelash when Bond faltered in the final steps. Tu? was an easy third.

Newel W. was Jockey J.D. Mooney's third winner of the day, this being the first time during the meeting that one jockey has piloted three winners in a day. Newt Barrett rode two of the others, while Earl Pool took the remaining two races.

H.C. “Bud” Fisher, the creator of Mutt and Jeff, and owner of Muskallonge, sat in the press box and watched his colt run in the Blue Grass Stakes, in which Leonardo lasted his first defeat.

J. Weyland, trainer for W.J. Salmon, whose Step Lightly and Careful are now training at Churchill Downs, came over from Louisville yesterday.

Emil Herz, manager of the Short Grass Stud, accompanied by Sam Jacobs and B. Lissberger, was an arrival from New York last night.

Frederick Johnson, of the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company, of New York, whose horses are at Hal Price Headley's farm, came in last night and will by here for the remaining three days of the races.

David M. Look, C.W. Leonard and H.W. Schlessinger, nationally known trotting horse owners and breeders, arrived from various points last night and will be here fro a few days, afterwards going to Louisville to see the Derby run on May 7.

A carload of H.R. Bradley's horses, probably including most of his Kentucky Derby elligibles, will be shipped to Louisville today.

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