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OFF-DAY CARD AT LAUREL Infantry Carries Off Most Pretentious Offering to Score by Margin of Three Lengths. LAUREL, ild., Oct 23. With the better class horses scheduled to perform on Saturday, a card consisting entirely of claiming races and featureless, was the entertainment offered by the Maryland State Fair, Inc., at Laurel today; Eight numbers were programmed and most interest centered in the decision of the fifth event, a gallop of one mile and a sixteenth, that attracted only a half dozen starters, four of which were under a ,000 claiming tag, and it was one of these that captured principal honors when Millsdale Stables improving three-year-old gelding, Infantry, carried all of the pace to register his second local success In three starts here. Installed a luke-warm choice over his formidable opponents on the strength of his exploits at this course, the score of the Millsdale colorbearer was exceedingly popular when he covered the distance in 1:45 to reach the finish three lengths in advance of Brown Feathers, which performed for the Mrs. E. Denemark stable. Third went to Mrs. A. S. Bowmans Genie Palatine, while Treford led home Cantine Lass and Coequel, the only others that met Despite a sudden drop in temperature, a large crowd turned out for the eighteenth program at this course, and despite the ordinary variety of the offering the afternoon racing was interesting.
