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heat of a five-heat race in 2.29, which was the 

 first time 2.30 had been passed, and was, of 

 course, the record. In 1849 she made a saddle 

 record of 2.26. She was bred to Black Hawk in 

 Vermont, but the colt was prematurely born, and 

 she left no descendants. Although this record was 

 reduced in 1849 to 2.28 by Pelham, a converted 

 pacer, another second was knocked off in 1853 by 

 Highland Maid, also a converted pacer, there 

 was nothing in the way of trotters to take the 

 great place of Lady Suffolk until Flora Temple, 

 the queen of them all, came along about 1850, and 

 proceeded to beat all that attempted to rival her 

 for speed and courage. 



When I was a boy, Flora Temple was consid- 

 ered almost as great as Lexington. In Kentucky 

 at that time, her wonderful performances, her 

 speed and her courage were considered all the 

 more remarkable from the fact that no one knew 

 how she was bred, and inferred that she had no 

 breeding that was good. This was not a fair in- 

 ference. Her appearance, her gameness, her 

 fighting qualities, together with her nervousness, 

 all indicated that she was a high-bred animal. To 



