The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-10
The Turf.

UNION COURSE, L. I--TR0TTTNa.
capital hot or yesterday afternoon between
b. g. Geo. H. Patchen and blk. 6. Pilot, for purse and
stake of $780, mile heats three in Ave. in harness
Patcben the after Eve good heats Pilot won tho
first two heats In very time. Patchen rather
steady and broke times In those heats but in the
third fourth and fifth the blood Of the Bashaws showed
itself and Patchen won The betting previous to the start
was favor Of the stallion at two 10 one after the first
heat ten to two was offered Pilot but after the third
heat it was anything TO nothing on Patchen.
First Rea-Plot took the lead and trotted very finely
around the turn P&chen having broken up and fallen
raj lengths behind Patchen trotted very fast after BIO
before he got to Pilot ne broke
IN 2:3i
heat, and lay Tapped until about midway OF tho back
stretch, when Petchen broke up and fell of several
lengths The horses were going very fast all the way,
Pilot passing the half milo pole in l1lH. When Patchen
recovered made tremendous dash TO regain hts posi-
alongside of PILOT but before be closed up the gap he
lengths Patchen tro,ed beautifully up the stretch and
was only beaten by about neck Tlme-229K.
Third Heat -Patchen having sweat out nicely, he sp-
pesreo on the track much fresher horse than Pilot the
start even and the horses went around the upper
pretty closely together They continued IN this way
pitch that tbs sa:k horse was carried or his ieet
and III. the settled in the minds Of the spec
tators. BY the Pilot recovered Patchen was thirty
yar,s ahead and in that way he home 10 1924
EuyM Heat.-The horses had q good start, and went
around the uppes turn AZ RAPID fue eot oeiofo they
reached the quarter pole Pilot broke up, and Patchcn left
him and vent his way fifty yards ahead, winning In
2Ss, the ot seeming to have ertirey left the black
h0Tte.
Ftta Heat-A counterpart Of the previous one Time
gao
Tho following Is q summary
MONDAY, May 9Putse aud stake $3.50, milo heats best
three in Eve, IN harness
b. Taman catered b. f. Geo. NJ. Patchen.. 2 ! !
' Time, ssI~a2s,1~ 2s2x -2SsH-2:4O
THREE FIRST CLASS TRoTTING HORSES BURNED TO
DEATH.
On Saturday afternoon last IRE accidentally occurred
in the stabng Of william Shaw, at tho Unon Course L. l.
At the time Of the several valuable first class trotng
hoTses in the stables, all of which rescued,
with tho exception Of Lady Shean George Washington aud
Kate Miller the atter Of which had engagement TO rot
yesterday afternoon Kate very fast mare, having
trotted privately in 229 last week. George Washington
was son OF the famous Pcnnsyvana horse Black
Bathaw, out Of a mare got by Shark, OF Eclipse He
was consequently brother Lantern Jenny JONES' and
the elegant and stylish stallion Lightning, who sup
plies vacancy occasoned by the death Of his lustr
sire at Morrisville. George Washington horse
OF excessive speed and bottom having troted
miles to wagon in five minutes, somewhat under
related, and single mile TO wagon In 228 or 227 His
time in harness vas not positively known. bot was sup
tosed be in the neigbborboOd OF 223 224 De
bred in Bucks county Pa twhere tho Bashaws original
eal by a gentleman named Paxsop "a brother 70 him
who raised Lanerp), few miles from Morrisvie, who
gold him George woodruff. The latter gentleman dis
ersbip be finally became the property OF Nr. f. J. Nodne
III Whose possession be was Of the umeo tho accident
Mr. Nodne Rad refused offer Of "a ,0c0 for him las
| summer; but he having improved wonderfully in hi
spced eince then, his value had risen accordgy. HI
| m,r formerly known ms lawful" The tirce horses
| bur ned wero worth over IS 600