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j Here and There! on the Turf — i j Brooklyn May Be Discoverys • J Next ! j Airflame After Belmont Stake » Only One Resumes Training J Sation Boss of Sprinters j 1 .J The main division of Alfred Vanderbilts stable heads for Belmont Park today but Discoverys chances of starting during the meeting are extremely doubtful. Vanderbilt and his trainer, J. H. Stotler, have decided against preparing last years handicap champion for the Metropolitan, for which he has been assigned 136 pounds, but there is a slight possibility that the five-year-old son of Display and Ariadne will be prepared for the Suburban Handicap, 0,000 added mile and a quarter event, which comes later in the meeting. Discovery will not be hurried in his preparation for this race, however, and more than likely he will be returned to competition with the Brooklyn Handicap as his first objective. In this event, to which the Queens County Jockey Club adds 0,000, Discovery set a new worlds record of 1:4814 for the mile and a furlong, but the mark since has been equalled by Brevity in accounting for the Florida Derby and lowered to 1:47% by Indian Broom in winning the Marchbank Handicap at Tanforan under ninety-four pounds. After the Brooklyn, Discovery will accept engagements in the Stars and Stripes and Arlington Handicaps at Arlington Park, and the Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs if all goes well and the weights are acceptable. Discovery won the Chicago Stakes last year but finished a close third back of Top Row and Whopper in the Suffolk Downs attraction. The former two are 0,000 events and the Massachusetts is endowed with 5,000. After competing in these races, Discoverys program calls for his participation in weight for age, or penalty and allowance events at Saratoga and Belmont Park. Since his return from Santa Anita Park, Discovery has been taking matters comparatively easy, being breezed slow miles lately so he is not far from the races whenever trainer Stotler begins intensive work. Airflame, holder of the worlds record for three furlongs and unbeaten in four starts, is due to make his next appearance under colors at Belmont Park, probably in the Juvenile Stakes. The fleet son of Ariel and Flamante was not permitted to run in the Aberdeen Stakes at Havre de Grace because his connections did not care to take any more chances with him than they could help. Vanderbilt and Stotler believe he will be well suited by the straight course at Belmont and after the Juvenile, his next important engagement will be in the Arlington Futurity. Airflame is not an eligible to the Hopeful Stakes, but was nominated for the Belmont Futurity. After winning the Juvenile Championship at Santa Anita, the Vanderbilt youngster was treated for ankle trouble and then given an opportunity to grow. Now he is larger, although still some inches and pounds from being average-sized. Nothing immediate is contemplated for Only One, which proved a consistent performer for Mrs. Deering Howe last season when he went to the post twenty-four times, most of them in stakes, to come away with Continued on twenty-fifth page.. HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. six firsts, a half dozen seconds and seven thirds. The principal victory of the son of Lucullitte and Orissa, now a five-year-old, was in the Dixie Handicap, but he also triumphed in the American Legion, Dela-ware. Prince George Autumn and Baltimore ! Handicaps. The consistent Howe racer also placed to Discovery in the Butler Handicap, beating Top Row and Thursday in the Riggs Handicap. Capt. Philip M. Walker only recently asked Only One to breeze for the first time this season, so it is quite unlikely that he will be ready for racing until near the end of the Belmont Park meeting. He had been nominated for the Santa Anita Handicap last winter, but it was decided not to train him and he was given a long rest as a result. Almost overlooked in the excitement attending the Kentucky Derby running was Sations victory over King Saxon, as well as some of our other good sprinters in the Jamaica Handicap, last week-end special at the Metropolitan Jockey Club course. Ef-fords were made all last year to bring together these two super sprinters and finally they met with no special ballyhoo heralding the fact and George Wideners veteran geld-j ing proved the better by a decisive margin. He handled his impost of 128 pounds very neatly, came from behind a pace that carried the leader the first half mile in :46 and finished out the six furlongs in 1:10%. just two-fifths slower than the track record set by King Saxon under 118 pounds when he won the Paumonok Handicap in 1935. King Saxon was never able to menace and we have a notion that he will never return to the form that made him one of the king pin sprinters of the country, that accident he suffered when knocked into the fence by Discovery in the Brooklyn Handicap last summer having left a troublesome, although not a noticeable scar. Meanwhile Sation, not the soundest horse in the world, wears well at six years of age. 1 I j I I j I I
