US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. This photograph appears with the article, "Discovery Works Mile in Sensational Time," Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan 1936: A9. Text from negative sleeve: He'd run a mile for a workout! It's Discovery, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's crack flyer, who issued a challenge to Cavalcade and the other horses entered in the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap turning in a 1:36 workout yesterday. Discovery, working with a stable-mate, Scotch Bun, opened up in the stretch and finished the mile in two-fifths of a second better than the workout mark hung up by Cavalcade Friday. Text from negative sleeve: 3564-- "Discovery" Race horse [stamped:] FEB 7- 1936 Handwritten on negative: Discovery 1-25-36
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12641 ark:/21198/zz002hmpkt
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Race horses Racetracks--California--Arcadia Discovery (Race horse) Santa Anita Park (Arcadia, Calif.)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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