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many thoroughbreds, conspicuous for their stayin 

 powers, have had the same general conformation. 



Flora Temple soon came into the hands of Hiram 

 Woodruff, and under his tuition she became a famous 

 race horse. She reduced the mile record, as we have 

 seen, from 2.25£ to 2.19J, being equally good at two 

 and three mile heats. There were several contemporary 

 trotters, between whom and Flora Temple very little 

 difference in speed existed when they first encoun- 

 tered her; but she outlasted the others. Some of 

 these horses actually beat her once or twice ; but the 

 longer they kept at it, the wider became the distance 

 between them and the little bay mare, of whom it 

 had been said that she might prove valuable if she 

 were only big enough to stand hard work. Highland 

 Maid, a well-bred, long-stepping bay mare; Tacony, 

 the first horse to make a record of 2.25% ; Lancet ; 

 Ethan Allen ; Pose of Washington ; Princess, a very 

 handsome, high-bred mare, who came on from Cali- 

 fornia expressly to beat Flora Temple ; John Mor- 

 gan, a big, fine-looking golden-chestnut horse of good 

 breeding, brought from the W T est for the same pur- 

 pose ; George M. Patch en, a famous brown stallion 

 of Morgan and Clay blood, — all these horses and 

 many others engaged with Flora Temple, sometimes 

 " turn and turn about," but all were badly beaten in 

 the end. "Flora Temple," said Hiram Woodruff, 

 "would train on and get better, when thoroughly 

 hardened, towards the middle and close of the season. 

 This is one of the most valuable qualities that a trot- 

 ting horse can have. The greatest excellence in trot- 

 ting is only to be reached through much labor and 

 cultivation. Xow, if strong work at a few sharp 



