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j SUFFOLK DOWNS NOTES | Apprentice J. Bowen was suspended for ten days for unfair riding tactics while astride Phalasan in the third race Monday. George Alexandra, trainer for the Med-way Stable, came in with twelve head from Narragansett. Included in his string are Ghost Queen, William Palmer, General Howes and Blackmail. Fanfare Stable has one of the largest strings in training on the grounds. They are being handled by D. McDermid and total twenty in all. Among the best known are Terpsichore, Blind Pig, Pordina and Little Bolo. New additions to the jockey colony included Joe Rosen, C. Quattlebaum, Charley Friedman, V. Polk and Alfred Shelhamer. J. L. Donovan arrived with ten head from Jamaica. Miss Agnes Sullivan of Revere will be the nurse in charge at the track hospital during the 1939 season. John Mastrianni will resume riding at Suffolk Downs after a long siege of illness, having been a victim of pneumonia. Ralph "Babe" Rubenstein officially tested the loud speaker horns Sunday, preparing for the opening. Horace Wade will broadcast the first race each day over the Yankee-Colonial network. Racing secretary Charles J. McLennan arrived by an early train from Pimlico Sunday and at once .went into action. Jockeys were arriving all day Sunday with their tack. Some of the early arrivals were jockeys Jimmy Ashcrbft, Euclid LeBlanc, Johnny Wilson, Eddie Robart, and Jimmie Lynch, the latter accompanied by his bride. Lyman Brusie arrived with some fourteen head from Narragansett on Sunday. Lieut. Gov. Horace Cahill and several of the constitutional officers of the commonwealth were guests at luncheon in the paddock club Monday, hosts and hostesses being Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Lambert, and Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Bruce Wetmore. Jockey Art Cooper arrived from Kentuckv. Jockey L. Dupps, who rides for the Mary Hirsch stable, reported. Miss Hirsch brought in a string of ten from Pimlico. George Seabo, who rode Challedon to victory in the Preakness Saturdy, joined the jockey colony Monday. He rode H. H. Met-calfs Roman Lady in the Plymouth Rock Monday. Seabo is under contract to W. L Brann. Rod Mclntoch, custodian of the jockey room, expects that there will be sixty-five riders under his wing. George A. Murray, acting mayor of Boston, represented the city at the opening day ceremonies in the absence of mayor Maurice Tobm, who was attending the national conference of mayors in Washington.
