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At Elmira, the sum of $900 was given, mile heats, to go 

 as they pleased. The first was to have $500, the second 

 $300, and the third $100. Flora Temple, Lancet, Miller's 

 Damsel; and Redbird were entered ; and it seemed pretty 

 clear that the first and second prizes would be secured by 

 the partnership, while there would be a struggle between 

 Miller's Damsel and Redbird for the third money. Flora, 

 Miller's Damsel, and Redbird went in harness, Lancet under 

 saddle. Flora won in two heats, Lancet second, and Miller's 

 Damsel third. Time, 2.28, 2.27. Three days afterwards, 

 Sept. 5, they trotted again for $3,500 in the aggregate. 

 It was mile heats, three in five, as they pleased ; the first to 

 have $2,000, the second $1,000, and the third $500. They 

 went as before, and the result was the same. Flora won in 

 three heats, 2.26^, 2.27, 2.25. Lancet was second in all 

 of them, and Redbird third. 



In these two days at Elmira, Flora and Lancet had earned 

 $3,800, to be divided between them ; and this was a good 

 deal more than they could have gained in any other way. 

 They had also done quite as much as the spectators had a 

 right to expect ; and, taken altogether, that was the best 

 performance that had then been made. Some, indeed, be- 

 lieved that the time was inaccurate, or the track short ; but 

 these notions were never confirmed. Flora then went to 

 Albany to trot a match for $2,000 with the gelding Brown 

 Dick, mile heats, three in five. Brown Dick was a good 

 horse, but not quite first-rate. He was a brown gelding, by 

 a son of American Star, and had been owned by a business- 

 man at Williamsburg, who used him in his heavy wagon. 

 He all at once showed such speed that he was sent to Dan 

 Pfifer, who brought him out, and made a fast and stout trot- 

 ter of him. The race between Flora and him was trotted 

 on Sept. 12 ; and the mare won it in three heats, the best 

 of which was 2m. 30s. : but then the track was slow, and 

 the turns bad. 



Flora Temple and Lancet now went together agair;. Thev 



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