328 THE TROTTING-BORSE OF AMERICA. 



when there is a race against time, a failure in one trial 

 beats the horse, unless it has been stipulated that there 

 shall be more than one. Flora tried again, but was 7m. 

 43s. in the second trial. It was urged, that as the Cen- 

 terville Course was more than a mile, Flora should be al- 

 lowed the excess three times over, which might have 

 brought her within the time ; but we held that we could not 

 allow it to her. This question was debated for some time, 

 and was finally left to Mr. Wilkes, who decided that we 

 had not been in error, that as the backer of Flora took 

 the track for a mile when he made the match, selected the 

 Centreville to trot on, he could not be allowed for its over- 

 measure. 



