EAST BOSTON, Mass. – A field of 10 fillies and mares seeking to add some black type to their résumés invade Suffolk Downs on Saturday to contest the newly created $75,000 Suffolk Downs Distaff Turf. The 1 1/16-mile race over the grass course is the highlight of the 12-race card, which offers purses in excess of $550,000, attracted 107 entrants, and is the second of three live Racing Festival days being run at the 80-year-old track this year.For the first time, Suffolk will offer a reduced takeout rate of 15 percent across the board ontrack and at simulcast outlets. With the Massachusetts Gaming Commission’s approval in August of the track’s request to lower the rate, it has been cut from 26 percent on all exotic bets, including exacta, trifecta, the 50-cent pick three and pick four, the dime superfecta, and $1 daily double. The takeout on straight win-place-show bets has been lowered from 19 percent. “We appreciate the gaming commission working with us on the takeout reduction,” said Chip Tuttle, Suffolk’s chief operating officer. “Historically, even when we had relatively larger field size, it’s not as if we’ve ever had a signal that was in high demand due to the purse levels. Saturday, we’ll be returning 85 percent to the bettors, and it will be interesting to see if there is a positive response.” Trainer Christophe Clement is taking dead aim at the Suffolk Downs Distaff Turf by sending out the trio of the British-bred Cushion, who carries the colors of Guy Roxburghe and Susan Magnier, Gallagher Stud homebred Maximova, and the stakes-winning Montana Native, although she is entered for the main track only.Cushion, who will break from the rail under Abel Castellano Jr., and Maximova, who cuts back in distance after competing at 1 3/8 miles to 1 1/2 miles at Belmont Park and Saratoga, both will find some class relief. Cushion was a strong second while earning a 91 Beyer Speed Figure last out in the Grade 3 Violet Stakes at Monmouth Park, and Maximova, who seeks her first win of 2015, has been tangling with Grade 2 and Grade 3 company all year.Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott has awarded the call to Chris DeCarlo on European stakes winner and Irish-bred Tuttipaesi, most recently ninth in the Violet. Hellenistic, another stakes winner in Europe, represents the stable of Chad Brown, whose horses are always dangerous, especially in turf races.With rain in the forecast all week and for Saturday, the horses who campaigned in Europe successfully might have a decided advantage on footing that is less than firm.Massachusetts-breds will be showcased in three restricted stakes races where the purses have been raised to $75,000 each from $50,000 with awards from the state’s new Race Horse Development Fund, which is stocked by a share of the revenue from the expansion of casino gambling.Jockey Tammi Piermarini, the top rider in New England in recent years and now based at Parx, figures to have a happy homecoming with mounts on Maximova and the three likely favorites in the statebred stakes. Miss Wilby, who is trained by Marcus Vitali and was a dominating winner of the African Prince here last out Sept. 5, also has four open-company wins and is a standout in the Louise Kimball at six furlongs. Worth the Worry, who romped by 12 lengths in the Rise Jim that day, looks to repeat in the Last Dance at a mile and 70 yards but will be challenged by Patricia Moseley’s homebred and former New England-bred champion Victor Laszlo. Another Moseley homebred, the multiple statebred stakes winner Navy Nurse, figures to be the prohibitive favorite in the First Episode after her 12-length victory in the Isadorable here Sept. 5.Two steeplechase races were originally planned for the card but did not fill.Purses will be paid back to fifth place, with an $800 “runner’s reward” for horses finishing from sixth to last, plus a $200 trainer’s bonus for every starter. The live card will be supported by a food-truck and craft-beer festival with free family activities. The third and final racing day in 2015 is Saturday, Oct. 31.