By THE HORSE. 
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to investigate the pedigrees of the chief public performers in trotting and 
pacing of late years. Foremost among these stands 
FLORA TEMPLE. 
THIS CELEBRATED MARE was got by a horse of doubtful pedigree, called 
“ One-eyed Kentucky Hunter,” out of a clever and fast-trotting mare, 
Madame Temple, who was said to be by a spotted Arabian sire. She was 
foaled in 1845, at Langerford, Oneida County, New York, and was sold by 
her breeder to Messrs. Richardson and Kellog, of Eaton, Madison County, 
New York, who used her for livery purposes for nearly two years, when 
FLORA TEMPLE. 
she was re-sold to a Mr. Velie, and finally to Mr. G. E. Perrin, of New 
York City, who speedily developed her extraordinary powers by constant 
trials against the trotters of the various gentlemen of that city. In 
September, 1850, she won her first public match over the Union course, 
since which, with the exception of the year 1851 when she was lamed 
by an accident, she has had an almost uninterrupted serics of victories, 
winding up with her defeat of Geo. M. Patchen, in June, 1860. She is a 
rich blood bay, with black points, and no white. In height, fourteen 
hands two inches, with great power and wiriness of frame. Her head, 
as will be seen by reference to her portrait, is as light as that of an Arab, 
and has, indeed, all the characteristics of that blood. Her shoulders are 
very long and sloping, and, though standing over a deal of ground, she is 
very short in the back. Indee¢, her shape is faultless in all essentials, 
and her action is remarkably long, yet as her pace tells you it must be 
particularly quick. She is now fifteen years old, but is evidently quite in 
her prime. 
