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DISCOVERY STARTS TODAY Vanderbilt Champion Scheduled to Carry 135 Pounds in Inchcape Handicap at Aqueduct. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 16. While the Tremont Stakes, to be offered by the Queens County Jockey Club at Aqueduct Wednesday, makes it an important afternoon of sport, there will really be more interest in the return of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts Discovery to competition. The champion son of Display is named to go to the post in the Inchcape Handicap, a gallop of a mile and a furlong, and, while he is only opposed by Morton L. Schwartz Observant and William Woodwards filly Palma, the weight arrangement should make it an excellent race. The Vanderbilt champion is to take up 135 pounds against the 110 to be carried by Observant, and the filly is in under the feather of 105 pounds. For a considerable time Discovery has been working exceedingly well at Belmont Park for "Bud" Stotler, and this handicap is just a part of his progress toward the Brooklyn Handicap. In the running of the same prize last year Discovery was winner over King Saxon and Omaha, but he only took up 123 pounds against the 127 pounds with which King Saxon was burdened, and Omaha carried 114 pounds. At that time King Saxon had been going along in a fashion that gave him his proud place at the top of the handicap division, while Discovery did not really come to himself until in the Brooklyn running. Should Discovery repeat his victory of last year he will have been winner of the Brooklyn Handicap for three successive years. He won the 1934 running as a three-year-old from Dark Secret, the magnificent stayer that broke down fatally in winning the Jockey Club Gold Cup that sameyear. The return of Discovery is sure to be of more public interest than the running of the Tremont, though the juvenile prize is of big importance. It is a test of five furlongs over the straight course, and nine of the eligibles have been named to go to the post. Of these, Alvin Untermyer is well represented by Scintillator and Gurkha, the former winner of the Juvenile at Belmont Park.
