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say what that breeding was is another matter. So 

 a pedigree was fixed up for her. On the plate pub- 

 lished by Currier and Ives when she was at the 

 very zenith of her fame, her pedigree was set 

 down as follows : " Sired by one-eyed Kentucky 

 Hunter, by Kentucky Hunter; dam Madam 

 Temple by a spotted Arabian horse." I have no 

 doubt that this pedigree is as arrant nonsense as 

 was ever put in print, and was simply made up to 

 put on the advertisements of the races in which 

 she was entered. I doubt, even, whether there was 

 any serious effort to trace her pedigree when she 

 was a filly, for it was not until she was five years 

 old that she attracted the attention of a horseman 

 and he bought her for $175, and sold her quickly 

 for $350. Previous to that she had been used in a 

 livery stable, though I recall a tradition that she 

 had been used in a milk cart. 



Colonel Battell, who spares no pains when he 

 goes after a pedigree, investigated that of Flora 

 Temple, and says it is as follows: "Foaled May, 

 1845; bred by Samuel Welch, Sangerfield, New 

 York; got by Loomis's Bogus, son of Lame 

 Bogus, by Ellis's Bogus, son ot imported Tom 



