AMERICAN RECORD-BREAKER
.; -.Mr. Alfred .Gwynne Vanderbilt's crack handicap, horse Discovery easy victor over the -Kentucky Derby winner. Omaha in the Brooklynl Handicap in June in world1 record time (Imin 48 l-ssec) for nine furlongs, romped home 30 lengths ahead of Mr. F. M. Alger jun.'s, Azucar, to win a match race for 11,200 dollars (£2240) and the ?t^°lK Challenge; Cup, at Detroit (U.S.AO on July 16. ._Discovery,:whq received one pound from Azucar, winner of the Santa Anita Handicap at Los Angeles last January; equalled the course record set up. by Cavalcade ,last year, covering the one" mile, one furlong, and 110 yards in Imin 58 l-ssec.
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Evening Post, Issue 50, 27 August 1935, Page 6
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