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excellent race, and run in good time : first heat, 

 3 minutes 54 seconds; second heat, 3 minutes 57 

 seconds. On Saturday of the same week he 

 beat Alborac, three-mile heats. 



1798, Monday, February 12. — Shark was 

 beaten by Commerce for a subscription purse of 

 ^1000, four-mile heats. This was a very exciting 

 race. Shark won the second heat, Commerce the 

 first and third heats. Colonel Hampton's Patriot 

 also started. 



1799, Wednesday, February 13. — Over the 

 Washington Course, Jockey Club Purse, four- 

 mile heats. Shark, aged, 133 pounds, beat Har- 

 poon and Greyhound. 



Same year. — Shark won the Handicap Race 

 at Charleston, three-mile heats; beating, after a 

 severe race of four heats, Alborac, Merry Andrew, 

 Greyhound, and Harpoon. Merry Andrew won 

 the first heat, Alborac the second heat. Shark 

 the third and fourth heats. 



Shark started several times in 1800 and 1801, 

 but without success. He was then advertised as 

 a stallion, and became as popular in the stud as 

 he had been on the turf. 



Shark was conquered in 1800 by Black Maria, 

 who had been sent on by Colonel Tayloe from 



