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SUFFOLK OPENING DAY Boston Track to Inaugurate Longest Meeting in Its History. ,000 Added Plymouth Rock Handicap Will Headline Mondays Card — Nine Sprinters Accept Weights. BOSTON, Mass., May 13.— Suffolk Downs, one of the countrys largest race tracks, will open the most ambitious meeting in the history of New England on Monday, racing secretary Charles McLennan having written a book that bids for all the highest class horses. Only time will tell how well he can fill the races he has programmed, but there will be plenty of time for proving, for Suffolk will run for no less than sixty consecutive racing days. The coming session will be the longest ever held in the history of the New England sport. There will be two important changes in the directorate and official family at Suffolk Downs this season. John T. Lambert will act as vice-president of the race track and Charles F. Adams will move up from his position as chairman of the board to president, a position occupied last season by James Connors. ALL RACES FILL WELL. Mondays entries augur well for the success of the season. Every event on the excellent eight-race card has filled well. The program is headed by the ,000 added Plymouth Rock Handicap, a six furlongs event that has attracted nine high-class sprinters. Top weight of the field and virtually a certain favorite is Yancey Christmas Rough Time, which won the Rowe Memorial and Jennings Handicaps in Maryland in impressive fashion. Rough Time will pick up 122 pounds in the event, conceding three pounds to Sun Egret. The latter looms as strictly the contender. For the past two years he has been rated one of the countrys fastest horses and is reported to be in fine condition. The race will see the return of Accolade to the New England racing wars. He has long been a popular favorite in this section and under 113 pounds is certain to attract plenty of backing. Young Tommy Heards Be Blue, winner of the Spring Handicap, opening feature at Narragansett, is in the Plymouth Rock under 110 pounds. She is a fit and hard-hitting filly and one which is always dangerous. Battle Jack, which raced well here last year, returns to competition with the same poundage. Infidox ran a disappointing race at Gansett against lesser company the other day and would have to improve greatly off that effort to be a factor. He is lightly weighted at 103 pounds. STAGE BEAUTY DOUBTFUL. Stage Beauty has been entered, but will hardly be sent back after her race at Narragansett on Saturday. The field is completed by Court Dance and Zoic. The latter, at one time a top-class campaigner, has gone far back and is the light weight of the field under 100 pounds. The Plymouth Rock will have an excellent supporting attraction in the Revere Handicap, which has drawn such good second-flight horses as Silent Witness, High Velocity, Holluschickie, Waxwing, Roman Lady, Polly Hastings, Swahili, Gallant Stroke and Uneasy. McLennan, rated one of the most capable men in the business, has been engaged to serve at the meeting, Adams and his associates wishing to offer the highest class sport possible under the best officials. In all, there will be fifteen stakes at Suffolk Downs, headed by the 0,000 Massachusetts Handicap on July 12 and the 5,000 Yankee Stakes for three-year-olds on July 4.
