The New York herald., 1868-06-09
TROTTING ON FASHION COURSE.

Isabella Beats Willie Shopper, Mile Heats
Lady Lowell Beats Doty's Bay Gelding, Mile
Heats.
The events fixed for yesterday being three In num-
ber and for the purse Of 81 900 promising great
attraction, 1t was deemed certainty that there
would be q good attendance should the weather
prove fine The skies were propitious and sunny
day. with free, bland air. offered every inducement
go to the But weather and attraction were
alike disregarded and a meagre assembage only
showed the course At three O'Clock there not
more than two to three hundred persons present and
these were largely habtual attendants, with
goodly number OF professionals. From the first
there seemed general impression that there would
be no start for the purse OF $1,000, for which the
tries originally made were Lady Thorn, Lucy
Fearless, stonewall Jackson General Butler Ed
Ellis and Atlanta. or these IL was known that In
any event, only Lady Thorn. the General and Ed
Ellis would start. AS the morning wore away the
Lady, and SO 1t proved AZ the sound OF the bell,
at three O'Clock, she alone came forth,
Butler and Ellis being as drawn S1
stripped and pitched TO, won admiration as she
strobe past the stand with her long reach and easy
sweeping gait The announcement was then made
that there would be trot for the purse and betting
turned itself to the other events OF the day to follow
An hour passed before the first OF the matches had
In the meantime as there was little business doing
in the pools and none In private betting on the
prospective trot to come OF on Friday
next, the 18th Of June, between Honest Allen
reported in capital condition. and are said to have
been moving very finely and 10 have made lately
very fast time. II will be free day, the 18th OF
June as then there are 20 be races at Jerome
Park the days there being Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and saturday. The only racing fixture for
Friday is the trot between the double teams. This
viii leave the sporting world to seek the Fashion
Course on that occasion. IL Is confidently antci-
pated that there Will be great performance should
arl.t In xr.ArT TnHtf ions olAfh a Inv AftA
Report says that Dexter is going grandly and
eyincing a speed which he has never surpassed. II
The public make il clear that in Mr. Bonner's hands
he has not gone back steady and reliable as ne has
always been he is now more steady more reliable
than ever he has been. Last year 1t was deemed
that he had reached his maximum OF foot but his
movement this year makes Dobe think that there Ia
yet ~ @ wan &c
OF Commodore vanderbilt's Mountain Boy there Ia
the time comes he will show that he s better than he
was last year, good a. he then was.
Tns rot for ths purse having hs ssS 70 come S
Rodens mare Isabea 70 o 125 pound wagon and ..
Maces Willie shopper IN harness. These are both
nve years old He is by Hambletonian, and is a pro-
missing one, He was in high nesh and by no means
ft for hard and truising race. AS As, .
often when, however, he did keep TO his work he
showed foot. when the FIRST two heats had taken
the nightinees out Of him he displayed nobly IN
finishing the third heat, closing up great gap and
tapping Isabella out at the stand. was beautiful
struggle and well maintained and shows MN most mos
promising young horse. He was driven by Dan
Mace and Isabella by n Roden The odds, three and
four 70 one,I In favor Of Isabella but very little
TSrst Heos-Isabella drew the pole and after three
false scorings the pair got away evenly but ~ once
Srok nm and Shopper opened away from her and trot-
tnq steady had dropped her four or Ave lengths ct the
quarter pole. Getting his mare bsok TO her ieet koden
mile mole got within two lengths of sheppef. Sne
carried on the game at about the same open space
! around the turn into the Flushing stEetcn ter
IsabeIla caught him. when Mace hed the mers