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INFANTRYS BRILLIANT WORK Millsdale Stable Horse Displays Fine Speed in Trial for 0,000 Tropical Handicap. CORAL GABLES, Fla., April 1 Whirling the fastest six furlongs of the meeting in 1:10 to win the Gulf Stream Polo Purse Thursday, Millsdale Stables Infantry moved into the limelight as one of the early favorites for the 0,000 added Tropical Handicap. This mile and a sixteenth test for three-year-olds and upward will be run oh closing day, April 9, and racing secretary Robert S. Shelley expected a field of twelve or more to go to the post. Ramsey and Coppages Much Gusto, unbeaten at two Tropical Park meetings, is the early favorite for the 0,000 prize. "Big Gus" has won four featured handicaps at Tropical, two at the first meeting and two at the current session. Thomas J. Healeys Tatterdemalion, another leading Tropical candidate, worked a handy mile in 1:44 Friday morning. Town-send B. Martins Court Scandal, winner of the 1937 Flamingo Stakes and well regarded in the Tropical Handicap, breezed a half mile smoothly in :534.
