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puller and was not in the least bothered by a 350 

 pound wagon, but went along with it as merrily 

 as though she were in a racing sulky. Her first de- 

 feat was in 1853 by Black Douglas, a son of 

 Henry Clay; but a few months later she had her 

 revenge and beat the Clay stallion with apparent 

 ease. In 1856 she took the trotting record away 

 from Highland Maid by covering a mile in 

 2.24J. The record remained with her for eleven 

 years; she reduced it in 1859 to 2.19f, and so 

 she was the first to trot better than 2.20, as 

 Lady Suffolk was the first to go below 2.30. In 

 1859 the little bay stump-tail mare was at the very 

 zenith of her fame, though Hiram Woodruff was 

 of opinion that the next year she might have 

 surpassed this. The next year the Civil War 

 broke out and she, not being in good form, was 

 retired to the breeding farm of Aristides Welch, 

 near Philadelphia. 



During the two or three last years of her pub- 

 lic life, Flora Temple had nothing to beat, so she 

 was sent all over the country " hippodroming " 

 with Princess and George M. Patchen, variously. 

 On the farm she dropped a few colts. Two were 



