The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-24

focus the attention of the, CT gansett park next Wednesday
 The race will be decided over a distance of one mile and three sixteenths and under favorable running conditions there is a dis tinct possibility that worlds record for the distance, 1:55-set by dis covery at this track on Labor day
 will be tossed into the discard. Reports from Maryland, where dis covery has been located during the past few weeks prior to shipping into Narragansett yesterday, are to the effect that MT Vanderbilt's s great colt is right at his top form. Winning the Maryland handicap at Laurel last Saturday. Discovery stepped a mile and one quarter in the slashing time of 2:03 and such a performance speaks for itself.
 Real Discovery.
 Trainee U. H. Bud" Stotler has repeatedly said that Discovery Is the greatest horse, he ever handled and this is a distinct compliment from one who trained Charles Armory's great sprinter, Balko, the horse that won the big Speed handicap at Belmont in 1880 and repeated a year later with the crushing impost of 132 pounds.
 New England race followers ere completely sold on Discovery, be- cause of the slashing performance he put up when whipping the stout colt Hadagal and making his rec cord run. But they also are mighty sweet on Faireno, whom they saw annihilate a high class field in easy fashion to win the valuable Ro- chambeau handicap on Columbus day. Faireno- made a great effort in last Saturdays What Cheer handicap, but racing luck and 12S pounds stopped him. In the Havre De Grace handicap on Sept 29tll Faireno beat Discovery by a head and a length, the Irish bred Azu- car, another Special entry. split ing the. pair.
 Record Breaker.
 The third of the equine trinity is none other .than Americas own handicap champion, Equipoise, the great racing machine which bids fair, at this stage, to eclipse every racing record on the American turf It was Equipoise that established the worlds one mile record of 1884 2-5 on June 30th at Arlington Park Ill, and who raced one mile and a quarter over the same track in 2:02 3-5s with the crusher of 135 pounds in the saddle.
 Ekky is now the worlds second largest money winning thorough bred. If he can win the Narra- gansett special he will be less than $20,000 behind the record earnings of Willis Kilmer's Sun Beau, who leads the way with the huge win nings total of $376,744. Tn many ways, Eq unpoise has enjoyed q remarkable career. As a yearling and even as ? year old he was considered of little account and when the Harry P. Whitney stable was divided up Ekky was sent with the second string batch to Assist ant Trainer Freddy Hopkins at the old Bennings race course on the outskirts of Washington, l., c. At one time he was thought to have been poisoned at Havre De Grace, which kept him out of the Kentucky Derby and the Freak ness-races he most likely would have won. Bad hoofs have fre- quentiy stopped his training. yet for all that he has developed into a real champion.
 In The Money.
 Another angle on Equipoise is the fact that his owner, c. V. Whit ney has headed the list of winning owners for the past four years. and if Ekky can win on October 31st MT Whitney will have great chance of beating out the Brook meade stable this year to establish another all time record of five years straight.
 Then there are other nationally famous horses in the special. Time supply, worlds record holder at six showed great staying power in the fast run mile and 1-16 last saturday and Owner F. A. likes his chances. Azucar. the year old chestnut gelding owned by Fred Alger, Jr., and trained by Matt Brady, is another horse of personality and class. Trained in his three year old days as a jumper he revealed such speed and staying power that 1t was de- cided to race him on the fiat and he has developed into really high class stake horse.
 The Catawba farm MT Khappan, D. A. Woods Indian Runner. c. V. Whitney's High Glee and M. l.. Hindu Queen will com plete the field and for the first time in racing history, New York books have been opened on New Eng land event. N. Y. quotations are as follows: