When removed from a scrapbook, the title of this particular plate was partially lost; luckily one can make out enough to discern that the title is a reference to the famous Kentucky Derby race, began in 1875. It isn't often one would see the mythical creature, the Centaur, racing toward the finish line. The influence for Wesley depicting Avonne and himself in this guise may likely be his exposure to the work of Heinrich Kley (1863-1945 ) during WWI in Europe. At this time Kley's work regularly appeared in the German magazines Simplicissimus and Die Jugend. The centaur was popular in both German and other humorous or satirical magazines. One sees Kley's depiction of these mythical creatures in the example above.

One seemingly arbitrary element is that of a swooping biplane. Nothing like it appears in any of the collections other fantastic and mythical scenarios. In 1923, a young Charles Lindburgh quits an engineering program at the University of Wisconsin, he buys an aircraft, a World War I-surplus plane, and becomes the barnstorming "Daredevil Lindbergh." Within five years he'd gain great international fame as the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.