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the views of those who say that a trotter should be straight 

 in the shoulder and short in the carcass. The best trotters 

 that I have ever known were not " punched-up " horses, 

 but the reverse. In length, the mare had the advantage of 

 Ethan Allen : she was, in fact, a very long mare for her 

 inches, and a large one too. She was the favorite in this 

 race at long odds, and won it easity in 2m. 32|s., 2m. 36^s., 

 pulled all the way. That finished her trotting for the year 

 1856. 



She wintered at Holmdell, in the State of New Jersey, 

 where Mr. Francis Morris breeds his race-horses. His 

 trainer, Mr. Chas. Lloyd, used to have the mare every winter 

 for some years ; and capital care he bestowed upon her. She 

 would come out all blooming in the spring, and be ready to 

 trot a good stout race after a few brushes. It makes a 

 great difference to the trainer whether a trotter has been 

 wintered well, or merely suffered to get fat and lazy during 

 the resting-months. But that time Flora was wintered, and 

 summered too, in Jersey ; for she remained at Holmdell until 

 July, and, when matched, was brought over at a few days' 

 notice to trot. Her opponent was Hose of Washington, 

 the one bred by Smith Burr away down on the Island 

 here, and beaten in her first race by Ethan Allen, at 

 four years old. She was got by old Washington, and was 

 now a good mare. She was not, however, good enough for 

 Flora on equal terms ; and so, when we made the match, we 

 stipulated that the latter should pull a wagon. I knew 

 that Eose was a good mare. I had beat Brown Dick a 

 heat with her to wagon in 2m. 3ls. in May. Then, in 

 June, she beat Tacony under saddle, in 2.30, 2.31, and had 

 in the mean time, between those races, defeated O'Blenis, 

 two-mile heats. 



But, for all that, I would not have advised the matching 

 of her against Flora, if I had not believed that condition 

 could not but be in Rose's favor. She had trotted all the 

 spring, had done plenty of work, and had performed well in 



