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From Baltimore to Chicago the mares proceeded, and there 

 gave an exhibition on the 16th of September. A bigger farce 

 was never enacted anywhere. Flora won the first heat in 

 2m. 31s. In the second, she had to wait so long for Prin- 

 cess, by reason of her bad breaking, that the heat was 3m. 

 21s. The third heat Flora won in 2m. 26^8. 



Flora next appeared at Muscatine, Io., her partner there 

 being Ike Cook. It was mile heats, three in five, in har- 

 ness. Flora won in three heats. These two then travelled 

 to Cincinnati, and there trotted in what was advertised as a 

 match for $1,000 a side. Flora won it in three heats, the 

 last of them being trotted in 2m. 21 ^s. This beat the time 

 made at the Eclipse Course and at Baltimore : but it is to 

 be remembered that it was not trotted on Mr. Cassady's old 

 Queen-City Course, but on a new one ; and there is good 

 reason to believe that it measured a little short. I have 

 heard from good authority that it was not then a full mile. 

 But the people did not know that fact ; and the news that 

 the little mare was gradually coming down towards 2m. 20s., 

 created much interest all over the country. 



Expectation was rife in regard to her. And now she was 

 about to make her fastest heat. It was on the 15th of Oc- 

 tober, at Kalamazoo, in Michigan, that she appeared, to trot 

 with Princess and a horse named Honest Anse. The peo- 

 ple of the famous oak-openings country have always mani- 

 fested much fondness and liberality towards trotters. They 

 gave a purse of $2,000, mile heats, three in five, in harness. 

 Flora Temple, Princess, and Honest Anse appeared to trot 

 for it. The first heat was just about fast enough to warm 

 Flora up. In the second, Honest Anse made her trot fa^t 

 for three-quarters of a mile : he then shut up, and she won 

 it in 2m. 22 s. He was then withdrawn, and Flora and 

 Princess started for the third heat. The little mare went 

 clean away from Princess ; did the first half in 1m. 9s., and 

 trotted the heat in 2m. 19 fs. The news created very great 

 excitement ; and many believed that the course was short. 



