The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-31

Union CO0ro0v Zee hs-IbottAuks
Tho Union Couns had 9 large attendance yesterday
afternoon " witness the tsottins match between the
Hambletonian gedns Shark and the Ssshsw mare Lady
Emma Tho for s20OH mile Leafs best three
in Ave. under the saddia Shark Won after Owe very
citing heats The marswas tho fsvortc before the start
hundred To nfty and after being beatea The rst
heat odds hundred eighty her winning
the race She ridden b. Hiram Howe, John Murphy
being asirdc OF Shark There 10 no denying tho fact
that the latter handled much the better Of the two
Lady Emma showed great deal moro speed than Shark
but she had bad way Of breaking, and In every heat
that she mnde break in sho beaten badly. The
hoses did not make the time that expected betting
~ low an "a having been made.
E,rst Heaf-One hundred 70 nfty current on the
spai times before he word was gwen before they
got away some bots nj even we're mnde. Both tho
horses looked nnc as silk and as stout As steel
shark got away with length tho best OF II,
and, having the polo. carried tho length 10 the
quarter pole In thirty -scven seconds Going down
tho backstretch Emma trotted very fast and
10 the front leading TO the halfmc pole two lcngths In
l3H She opened the gap little as she went on 10
and WINS six lengths ahead before she settled again En-
closed up about three lengths or the lost ground
tho next two hundred yards, but again broke up which
threw every chance away FOR the heat shark won by
ten lengths IN gypsy
Secs,.d Heat Emma sti tho favorits a, nfty 10
up before she recovered Shark Leading nearly
twenty lengths which he took 70 the quarter poh In
secondS He kept tho gap open
stretch, passing the half.rnle pole In l21. He
afterwards broke, and the WINS within ten lengths
Of him the three quarter pole; but being urged too
much the homostrctch, she broke up again shark
also broke up when nearing the stand but won the heat
by ton lengths, In $40
Third Heat shark then became tho favorite al one
hundred TO fifty. Tho horses came up rapidly and get
ting the word, went away ut tremendous Hight, but tho
pace was too rapid for Shark aud he wen, up and tho
being kept together went TO the quarter polo eight
lengths ahead thirty five and three quarter seconds
Even money then offered on the mare winning tho
She at the half mile pole IN IL y, ten lengths
in front OF shark and keeping steadily At work came up
the stretch the Jog, 10 22S%.
Fourth H,a.-Iady Emma was again tho fayoriie.
Shark got OF the send on but the beat him
two lengths to tho quarter pole In hrysN seconds and
four lengths 10 the half mile pole In 2 Shark having
broken before getting there she opened the on the
lower turn and up the homestrctch well In hand
winning the heat by four lengths, IN 225h.
FJh Hedt-A long Time was wasted In scorn' the
horses coming up eleven times before thoy got the word
Shark best OF tho ssndo and crossed for
so close 10 the mare that she struck him. He 90 NJ
forwards broke up and before the mare got past him she
too lott her feet When tboy both recovered Shark was
two lengths In advance and In that way no passed mo
backsireteh tho closed the gap and was head
head with Shark whom they colded, and Tue mare
broke pieces and before she recovered the gedng
q dozen lengths ahead Of her He paHsedphe half.
mile pole in IsH and soon Afterwards broke up but
no was 10 ahead Of the that he recovered before
she had made up much Of tho lost ground Emma
broke up again the homesrctch, and shark won tho
heat by ten lengths, In asa Tho following 10 tho sum
TUESDAY May so-Maich 1000, mile heats bes, three
In Owe. under the saddle
d. Pnler named b z. Shark, BY Hsmbls-
tonan, dam by Am Star. !. Murphy
II woodruff named ch m. Lady Emma,
by DR. Richs Jupiter, dam by Abdai-
lab Observation-Disclosures Hiram Howe