334 THE TROTTING-HORSE OF AMERICA. 



In the first lieat they went away level, and the quarter 

 was trotted in 34s., Flora having a lead of two lengths. 

 She did not increase her lead, and the time at the half-mile 

 pole was 1m. 10|s. He now drew towards her, and at the 

 head of the stretch was at her wheel. A good race 'home 

 followed ; and, if Turner had been ahle to keep up his pull, it 

 would have been a near thing. The chestnut broke inside 

 the draw-gate, but caught his trot well ; and Flora only beat 

 him a length and a half in 2m. 24-|s. 



In scoring for the next heat, Flora came up behind several 

 times, and finally the gelding threw one of his shoes. It 

 was replaced ; but, when they got the word, he made a wild 

 break just as he neared the place where he threw it, and 

 Flora took a lead of four or five lengths. He broke again 

 on the back-stretch, and the mare won the heat with ease in 

 2m. 26s. The third heat was very much like the second. 

 Turner was tired, and could not stand the pull of the horse. 

 His gait was so bold and his stroke so long, that he could 

 not keep up to it, without putting considerable weight on 

 the bit. He broke again soon after they got the word, and 

 lost ground that he could never make up. She won the 

 heat in 2m. 28Js. The friends of John Morgan were some- 

 what disappointed, but they still thought that he would do 

 better on another occasion. In this they were quite right ; 

 for, as we shall presently see, he made her trot the best 

 two-mile race in harness that she, or any other horse, over 

 made. 



