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DISCOVERY TO TRY AGAIN Vanderbilt Champion Counted on as Prospective Starter in Eich Narragansett Special. PAWTUCKET, R. I., June 25 Discovery, Alfred G. Vanderbilts champion of the handicap division, who at present looms the favorite for Saturdays renewal of the 0,000 added Brooklyn Handicap, at Aque-duct, will make the Narragansctt Special, at local Narragansett Park, one of the chief objectives of his summer and fall campaign. Owner Vanderbilt submitted the names of Discovery and Identify in the initial subscription to the 1936 renewal of the Special. It was at Walter OHaras ultra-modern racing grounds that the great five-year-old son of Display and Ariadne hung out new world record figures of 1:55 for the mile and three-sixteenths as a three-year-old. In the Narragansett Special last summer, Discovery was second to A. A. Baronis Top Row, which last winter won the Santa Anita Handicap. In that race, Discovery carried 139 pounds to 110 on Top Row. The Narragansett Special will be renewed on Wednesday, September 16. Its distance is a mile and three-sixteenths, the same for which Discovery established a world mark over the local course. The Special will have 5,000 or 0,000 added. The conditions state that if there are among the starters in the Special two or more horses winners in 1936 of either the Kentucky Derby, Preak-ness, Belmont Stakes or the Arlington Classic, an additional 5,000 will be added, all to go to the winner. If some three-year-old other than Granville, the Belmont Stakes winner, accounts for the Classic, and both are starters in the Special, it will have 0,000 added. Weights will not be announced until Saturday, September 12, four days prior to the running, so that handicapper Pat Horgan will have an up to date line on all candidates when making the assignments.
