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CAMOUFLEUR WINS IN FAST TIME Runs Mile in 1:38 in Accounting for Main Race at Laurel Mishap to Gold Bond. LAUREL, Md., October 10. Wm. Martins Astronomer colt, Camoufleur, showed a good performance at Laurel this afternoon when he beat a good band of milers in the claiming handicap, which was run as the fifth race. He was ridden by Callahan, came from behind in the stretch run on the extreme outnide of his opponents and, finishing with a rush, got up in the last ten yards to beat Fort Bliss a scant half length. The latter was a nose in front of the pacemaker. Slippery Elm. The winner ran the distance in 1:38, which marked the fastest mile of the meeting. Another fast run race was the highweight handicap, in which Royce Rools equaled the track record for three-quarters of n mile, running the distance in 1:11. Royce Rools showed sudden improvement and easily drew away from J. Arthurs Charlie Leydecker when the latter threatened entering the stretch. Fifteen two-year-old faced the starter in the opening dash and Encrinite was returned the winner after a sharp struggle with Squire Charlie in the final eighth. Only three started in the steeplechase and after the elimination of Gold Bond, which struck a couple of fences and fell at the fifteenth jump, pulling iqi lame. Toppy Nix had no opposition for first place. Dairyman was the odds-on choice in the third and -asily made good without being fully extended. G. W. Forman claimed Hank ODay after the running of the third race Wednesday for ,015, and It. K. Bryson took Celto after the sixth for ,335. P.ryson formerly owned Celto. Jockey Fator left here this afternoon for Latonia to pilot Mad Hatter in the Lalonut Chaiiipioiisiiiii Stakes. Albert Simons, trainer for Harry Payne. lut-jipv, was not satisfied with the running of the National Stakes Wednesday, in which he saddled AViidair. Simons thought Wildair should have been second, bad it not been that he was bothered at the post. The suggestion has been made by a number of leading trainers that racing associations should have a placing judge for each of the first three horses, each judge to be assigned the job of picking but one horse. S. C. Hildreth bad word from Dave Leary. who is at Latonia with Mad Hatter, that the track there was quite bad, and Mr. Hildreth expressed some doubt as to whether Mad Hatter would be able to do bis best in that kind of going. Ieary wired that Mad Hatter had worked a mile and a quarter for the race in 2:13. The weight. 122 pounds. Hildreth said will not bother his colt, and he is fearful only of the deep going. The Annapolis Handicap, to be run tomorrow, promises to be a great contest, even with Purchase and The Porter out of it. The race will offer an opportunity for Exterminator to prove whether Cudgels victoVy at Havre de Grace, whej he beat the Kilmer horse by a neck, was decisive or not.
