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Nine Juveniles Contest Top Offering at Suffolk SuffolkHandy Handy Sort and Fighting Louie Expected to Vie for Favoritism FavoritismSUFFOLK SUFFOLK DOWNS East Boston Mass May 24 A featureless program of eight races will be offered at Suffolk Downs to ¬ morrow Wellmatched fields adorn the card to offset the absence of New England name horses Platers of the claiming va ¬ riety will be prominent with seven of the events under claiming conditions conditionsThe The fourth race is an allowance event for juveniles who have not won two races Nine youngsters have been entered repre ¬ senting eight different interests and the field boasts of eight winners of a single race Handy Sort and King Alia the prop ¬ erty of Mrs H C Wolfe wife of the train ¬ er and former rider Billikin Wolfe ap ¬ pear as a formidable team and will prob ¬ ably receive the bulk of support in the five furlong dash dashHandy Handy Sort triumphed in a manner that depicts his name in his only local appear ¬ ance The son of Petrose Hitherward scored by five lengths over a band of maidens to hang out 101 for the dis ¬ tance of tomorrows race The time was considered very good over a track termed sloppy from the heavy rains King Alia turned in identical time to score last Thursday while carrying a price tag of 8000 hi a juvenile claiming dash King Allas effort was over a good track but his manner of coming from off the pace to earn a length decision over Cotton Bud suggests the Port Au Prince gelding is an added asset to the chances of the Wolfe pair pairE E P Rodriguez Fighting Louie who finished fourth in the division of the re ¬ cent Bay State Kindergarten Stakes won by Reynolds Brothers Abra has been a consistent campaigner since his debut in New Orleans on January 1 The Fighting Fox colt scored in quarter mile dash on the southern track before shipping here but has been unsuccessful in three at ¬ tempts In each race Fighting Louie has been well regarded and has displayed a turn of high speed only to be lacking of stamina when the real test came Tomor ¬ row may be a different story and the youngster cannot be regarded too lightly lightlyFrom From a standpoint of speed Frances Stables My Myrna must be conceded the best chance of the remaining candidates in the dash The chestnut daughter of Good Goods has been postward on four occa ¬ sions finishing third twice sixth once and victorious in her last The victory was at four and onehalf furlongs when sheimoved Jrom fifth position at the furlong pole to gain a halflength decision at the expense of J W Browns Brown Anne and eight other maiden juveniles
