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I SUFFOLK DOWNS TURF NOTES I $ The total handle for the first eighteen days of racing at . Suffolk Downs was ,155,784, as compared with ,665,394 for the first eighteen days of last year. The daily average to date is 97,270. In 144 races thus far held the favorites, have won forty-four times, for a percentage of .30. There are now 1,038 horses in the stables at Suffolk Downs. The majority of the stables will ship out to Rockingham the latter part of the week. Requests for Suffolk Downs reservations for the second meeting, beginning July 12, far exceed the number of stalls available. John Roosevelt, son of the President of the United States, was a paddock club visitor, guest of Joseph Maynard, president of the club. H. Radtke vanned the extensive strings of T. P. and W. F. Morgan to Rockingham Park Sunday afternoon to await the opening of the Salem meeting. The stable is headed by The Fighter. Jockey R. Howell returned to New York after riding Bill Farnsworth to his victory Saturday in the Plymouth Rock Handicap. Step Away and Thistle Air are the latest additions to starter Jim Miltons schooling list. dominations for the Yankee Handicap, which close June 15, continue to come in. The latest to be named for the three-year-old fixture are Knights Plume and Teddy . B g Green from the Tranquility Farm of H. H. Cross. Cecil Hartle, an apprentice who accepted his first mount in the East on Sundad Saturday, rode five races previously on the west coast. Apprentice K. McCombs and jockey O. Laidley accepted their first mounts of the Suffolk Downs meeting astride Lady Carrot and Sciva respectively in the second race Monday afternoon. During the first eighteen days of the current meeting, Carrol Bierman has piloted twenty-four winners. He lost his bug several days ago. Apprentice A. Clutter returned from Agawam and reported back to his contract employer Ralph Mcllvain. The announced suspension of jockey F. Schieh has been lifted only on the condition that he must, until further notice, accept mounts of his contract employer, Ivan Parke.
