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four years my uncle Martin Mendenhall and Corbitt 

 had a misunderstanding over the deal. In the mix 

 up Corbitt retained Flora and my uncle took Puss. 



"Corbitt never thought much of Flora until after 

 Lillian Wilkes appeared and he and my uncle were 

 never friendly after their misunderstanding. In fact 

 Corbitt thought so little of Flora that he wanted to 

 give her away. She was balky when driven single. 



"A couple of years before Lillian Wilkes was foaled 

 Corbitt tried to put her in the 2 :30 list. She got sore 

 from training as Corbitt was a severe man on 

 horses. She went to pacing and was said to have 

 2:20 speed. Finally Flora took one of her balky 

 streaks, reared, fell over backwards, and ran away. 

 Before being caught she ran the end of a shaft into 

 her breast from which she never recovered. Corbitt 

 ordered her shot but after he got over his passion 

 he decided on account of the speed she had shown to 

 breed her again. He mated her with Guy Wilkes and 

 got Lillian Wilkes, the dam of Guy Axworthy. Flora 

 died a few weeks after Lillian Wilkes was foaled. 



"My uncle purchased a mate for Puss when she 

 was brought back from Corbitt's. She was by Spread 

 Eagle. They matched perfectly. When he was prac- 

 tically going out of business he sold Puss and her 

 mate to Count Valensin." 



As stated by Mr. Mendenhall Flora was by Lang- 

 ford, a son of Williamson's Belmont, her dam being 

 Pet. 



Pet was foaled in 1866. She was by General Tay- 

 lor, the horse that in 1857 made the thirty mile trot- 



